Employer-provided health insurance and pension coverage rates, in-home workers versus other workers, 2018
| Domestic worker occupations | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Employer-provided health insurance coverage | 48.9% | 19.1% | -29.7 | 7.3% | 15.1% | 6.8% | 17.1% | 25.2% |
| Employer-provided pension coverage | 32.8% | 9.1% | -23.7 | 2.0% | 3.5% | 2.6% | 6.6% | 13.1% |
| Domestic worker employer-provided health insurance penalty* | -21.4**** | -26.2**** | -18.4**** | -34.5**** | -24.9**** | -17.1**** | ||
| Domestic worker employer-provided pension penalty* | -17.1**** | -17.3**** | -17.3**** | -26.6**** | -20.6**** | -14.1**** | ||
* Percentage-point difference between the coverage rate of domestic 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 Annual Social and Economic Supplement microdata
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