Poverty rates, domestic workers versus other workers, 2018
| In-home | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Child care workers | Direct-care aides | |||||||
| Not domestic workers | Domestic workers | Percentage- point difference | Housecleaners | Nannies | Provide care in own home | Not agency-based | Agency-based | |
| Share below the poverty line | 5.0% | 16.8% | 11.8 | 25.4% | 20.1% | 13.3% | 14.2% | 15.1% |
| Domestic worker poverty penalty* | 8.5**** | 14.0%**** | 10.8%**** | 6.4%**** | 7.1%**** | 7.0%**** | ||
| Domestic worker “twice poverty” penalty* | 17.8**** | 19.5%**** | 11.1%**** | 9.8%**** | 13.6%**** | 19.9%**** | ||
* Percentage-point difference between the coverage rate of in-home workers and that of demographically similar workers in other occupations
Note: **** indicates significance at the .01 level; *** indicates significance at the .05 level; ** indicates significance at the 0.1 level. OLS regressions control for gender, nativity, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, age, marital status, and division of the country. Complete regression results available by request from the author. To ensure sufficient sample sizes, this table draws from pooled 2016–2019 microdata.
Source: EPI analysis of Current Population Survey Annnual Social and Economic Supplement microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau
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