Table 1 Demographic characteristics of child care workers in the USA, 2014
| Â | Child care workers | All other workers |
|---|---|---|
Gender | ||
 Men | 4.4% | 53.7% |
 Women | 95.6% | 46.3% |
Citizenship status | ||
 US born | 81.2% | 83.5% |
 Naturalized US citizen | 8.3% | 7.8% |
 Non-naturalized immigrant | 10.5% | 8.7% |
Race/ethnicity* | ||
 White | 60.1% | 66.1% |
 Black | 14.1% | 10.6% |
 Hispanic | 19.8% | 15.7% |
 Asian | 3.9% | 5.8% |
 Other | 2.1% | 1.9% |
Education | ||
 Less than high school | 8.6% | 8.0% |
 High school | 30.5% | 27.2% |
 Some college | 39.4% | 29.7% |
 Bachelor’s degree | 17.7% | 22.8% |
 Advanced degree | 3.8% | 12.4% |
Age | ||
 18–22 | 15.4% | 7.3% |
 23–49 | 55.7% | 59.1% |
 50+ | 29.0% | 33.7% |