Table 5.
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Quartile 1 | Quartile 2 | Quartile 3 | Quartile 4 | |||||
Rank | Occupation | Proximity Score | Occupation | Proximity Score | Occupation | Proximity Score | Occupation | Proximity Score |
1 | Janitors | 56 | Truck, delivery & tractor drivers | 83 | Managers & administrators, nec | 81 | Registered nurses | 91 |
2 | Laborers outside construction | 55 | Cashiers | 82 | Supervisors & proprietors of sales jobs | 80 | Primary school teachers | 90 |
3 | Construction laborers | 54 | Nursing aides, orderlies & attendants | 81 | Retail sales clerks | 79 | Computer systems analysts & computer scientists | 89 |
4 | Housekeepers, maids, butlers, stewards, & lodging quarters cleaners | 53 | Cooks, variously defined | 80 | Customer service reps, investigators & adjusters, except insurance | 78 | Computer software developers | 88 |
5 | Miscellaneous food prep workers | 52 | Waiter/waitress | 79 | Secretaries | 77 | Accountants & auditors | 87 |
Note. Universe for workers includes all essential frontline workers who reported working in the last year. All results are population weighted and adjusted for underreporting with 95 percent confidence intervals reported in parentheses. Authors’ calculations using 2019 ACS from ipums.org. Occupations of workers are broken down into quartiles with each group including approximately one-quarter of total occupations, not total workers (EDSCOR90).