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. 2021 Sep 1;16(9):e0256085. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256085

Table 1. Number of recent workers and percentage in frontline occupations by race/ethnicity and sex.

  Male Female
Race/Ethnicity Number of Recent Workers Frontline (%) Number of Recent Workers Frontline (%)
White 675,542 59.5 632,421 46.2
Black 76,649 72.9 87,168 57.5
Latino 133,868 77.9 120,853 61.8
Chinese 13,095 40.9 14,265 41.3
Filipino 7,798 61.7 10,403 61.2
Vietnamese 5,150 63.5 5,519 66.2
Korean 4,303 44.0 4,684 47.8
Other Asian 22,072 42.1 18,654 57.9
Native American 7,018 75.5 7,059 56.7
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 1,402 73.0 1,353 54.1
Mixed Race 17,555 63.2 17,857 52.0
Other Race 1,695 64.3 1,778 57.3
Total 966,147 63.7 922,014 50.5

Note: Data are from the 2018 American Community Survey (ACS). Percentages are calculated using weights provided by the ACS; numbers are unweighted counts of ACS respondents. All racial/ethnic categories except Latino exclude those who reported themselves as Latino/Hispanic in the ACS question on ethnicity.