Residents of Lad Yaa engage mainly in small to medium business, or work for the government, with a small proportion working in agriculture.
The majority of the experts worked in clinical fields (52%%), with a smaller proportion working in education (12 %), research (6 %), and management (3 %).
There were some differences between non-residents who came from Pacific Island states to study in New Zealand compared with residents of Pacific ethnicity, especially in the higher proportion working in the Pacific (12% versus 4% of residents), and in the proportion intending to work in Pacific communities in the future (40% versus 30% of residents).
The studies that report on the numbers of PAs employed in primary care (n = 11), range in publication date from 1977 to 2007, are all from the USA (Additional file 1) and inform about the growing numbers of PAs and uncertainty about the proportion working in primary care.
Industry sectors in which Hamersley residents worked (2001) were comparable with those in Perth generally, with the largest proportions working in retail trade (16.3%), property and business services (11.4%), health and community services (11.0%) and manufacturing (9.7%).
There were differences in the profiles of respondents between hospitals, with considerable variation in the proportion who were clinicians, the proportion who worked in paediatric areas (as defined above) and the proportion who were female (Table 2).
I'm concerned that ethnic minority women will be hit very hard by the spending cuts and the 490,000 public sector jobs to be slashed – especially since a high proportion work in administrative roles.
An even smaller proportion work in fossil fuel production.
A large proportion work in low-skilled manual labour jobs (often in spite of holding much wider professional skills and experience), such as cleaning and catering.
The register is based on postcode of residence, rather than postcode of work, so the estimated 'proportion working in NHS' will be biased upwards by commuters coming to work in an SHA (the effect of which may be muted somewhat if resident nurses work in the private sector, commute out of the SHA or do not work, in comparable numbers to the incoming commuters).
