TABLE 1 Census 2000 Summary File 4 Data for Puerto Rico

Total employment by gender, occupational groups, subgroups and occupations (Hispanic or Latino and Non-Hispanic or Latino)

Puerto Rico
Number Percent
Occupational groups, subgroups and occupations Males Females Total Male Female
Total: 531,992 398,873 930,865 57.2 42.8
Management, professional, and related occupations: 117,045 138,372 255,417 45.8 54.2
Management, business, and financial operations occupations: 52,522 40,265 92,787 56.6 43.4
Management occupations: 34,311 20,792 55,103 62.3 37.7
Top executives 7,018 2,389 9,407 74.6 25.4
Advertising, marketing, promotions, public relations, and sales managers 1,619 1,119 2,738 59.1 40.9
Financial managers 2,302 2,336 4,638 49.6 50.4
Operations specialties managers, except financial managers 2,907 1,574 4,481 64.9 35.1
Farmers and farm managers 3,170 129 3,299 96.1 3.9
Other management occupations, except farmers and farm managers 17,295 13,245 30,540 56.6 43.4
Business and financial operations occupations: 18,211 19,473 37,684 48.3 51.7
Business operations specialists 6,370 6,731 13,101 48.6 51.4
Financial specialists: 11,841 12,742 24,583 48.2 51.8
Accountants and auditors 9,097 9,880 18,977 47.9 52.1
Other financial specialists 2,744 2,862 5,606 48.9 51.1
Professional and related occupations: 64,523 98,107 162,630 39.7 60.3
Computer and mathematical occupations: 4,475 2,275 6,750 66.3 33.7
Computer specialists 3,996 1,733 5,729 69.8 30.2
Mathematical science occupations 479 542 1,021 46.9 53.1
Architecture and engineering occupations: 12,053 2,050 14,103 85.5 14.5
Architects, surveyors, and cartographers 1,097 188 1,285 85.4 14.6
Engineers 6,770 1,259 8,029 84.3 15.7
Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians 4,186 603 4,789 87.4 12.6
Life, physical, and social science occupations: 3,740 3,338 7,078 52.8 47.2
Life and physical scientists 1,966 1,563 3,529 55.7 44.3
Social scientists and related workers 547 971 1,518 36.0 64.0
Life, physical, and social science technicians 1,227 804 2,031 60.4 39.6
Community and social services occupations: 3,883 9,266 13,149 29.5 70.5
Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists 2,543 9,008 11,551 22.0 78.0
Religious workers 1,340 258 1,598 83.9 16.1

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 TABLE 1 Census 2000 Summary File 4 Data for Puerto Rico
Total employment by gender, occupational groups, subgroups and occupations (Hispanic or Latino and Non-Hispanic or Latino)

Puerto Rico
Number Percent
Occupational groups, subgroups and occupations Males Females Total Male Female
Legal occupations: 5,732 3,271 9,003 63.7 36.3
Lawyers 4,909 2,407 7,316 67.1 32.9
Judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers 285 237 522 54.6 45.4
Legal support workers 538 627 1,165 46.2 53.8
Education, training, and library occupations: 14,664 44,872 59,536 24.6 75.4
Postsecondary teachers 3,502 3,987 7,489 46.8 53.2
Teachers, primary, secondary, and special education: 8,574 33,481 42,055 20.4 79.6
Teachers, preschool, kindergarten, elementary, and middle school 6,102 26,946 33,048 18.5 81.5
Teachers, secondary school 2,299 5,555 7,854 29.3 70.7
Teachers, special education 173 980 1,153 15.0 85.0
Librarians, curators, and archivists 429 1,438 1,867 23.0 77.0
Other teachers, instructors, education, training, and library occupations 2,159 5,966 8,125 26.6 73.4
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations: 6,777 4,189 10,966 61.8 38.2
Art and design workers 2,008 1,656 3,664 54.8 45.2
Entertainers and performers, sports, and related workers 1,828 577 2,405 76.0 24.0
Media and communications workers 2,941 1,956 4,897 60.1 39.9
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations: 13,199 28,846 42,045 31.4 68.6
Health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations: 10,030 21,371 31,401 31.9 68.1
Physicians and surgeons 5,355 2,594 7,949 67.4 32.6
Registered nurses 1,597 13,664 15,261 10.5 89.5
Therapists 623 1,868 2,491 25.0 75.0
Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations 2,455 3,245 5,700 43.1 56.9
Health technologists and technicians 3,169 7,475 10,644 29.8 70.2
Service occupations: 86,760 63,897 150,657 57.6 42.4
Healthcare support occupations: 1,891 8,746 10,637 17.8 82.2
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides 869 4,035 4,904 17.7 82.3
Occupational and physical therapist assistants and aides 24 268 292 8.2 91.8
Other healthcare support occupations 998 4,443 5,441 18.3 81.7
Protective service occupations: 33,483 7,064 40,547 82.6 17.4
Fire fighting and prevention workers, including supervisors 1,128 28 1,156 97.6 2.4
Law enforcement workers, including supervisors 15,987 3,572 19,559 81.7 18.3
Other protective service workers, including supervisors 16,368 3,464 19,832 82.5 17.5

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 TABLE 1 Census 2000 Summary File 4 Data for Puerto Rico
Total employment by gender, occupational groups, subgroups and occupations (Hispanic or Latino and Non-Hispanic or Latino)

Puerto Rico
Number Percent
Occupational groups, subgroups and occupations Males Females Total Male Female
Food preparation and serving related occupations: 16,886 20,907 37,793 44.7 55.3
Cooks and food preparation workers 8,121 12,214 20,335 39.9 60.1
Waiters and waitresses 3,014 3,115 6,129 49.2 50.8
Food and beverage serving workers, except waiters and waitresses 2,443 1,945 4,388 55.7 44.3
Other food preparation and serving workers, including supervisors 3,308 3,633 6,941 47.7 52.3
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations 27,573 15,872 43,445 63.5 36.5
Personal care and service occupations: 6,927 11,308 18,235 38.0 62.0
Personal appearance workers 2,385 5,042 7,427 32.1 67.9
Transportation, tourism, and lodging attendants 1,134 606 1,740 65.2 34.8
Child care workers 188 3,164 3,352 5.6 94.4
Supervisors and other personal care and service workers, except child care workers 3,220 2,496 5,716 56.3 43.7
Sales and office occupations: 107,951 152,366 260,317 41.5 58.5
Sales and related occupations: 63,586 54,787 118,373 53.7 46.3
Cashiers 8,671 22,606 31,277 27.7 72.3
Retail sales workers, except cashiers 15,292 13,242 28,534 53.6 46.4
Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing 15,357 7,127 22,484 68.3 31.7
Other sales and related occupations, including supervisors 24,266 11,812 36,078 67.3 32.7
Office and administrative support occupations: 44,365 97,579 141,944 31.3 68.7
Communications equipment operators 461 773 1,234 37.4 62.6
Financial clerks, except bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks 2,647 4,664 7,311 36.2 63.8
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks 1,392 2,592 3,984 34.9 65.1
Information and record clerks, except customer service representatives 4,558 10,270 14,828 30.7 69.3
Customer service representatives 2,760 3,672 6,432 42.9 57.1
Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers 14,579 2,718 17,297 84.3 15.7
Secretaries and administrative assistants 1,703 48,304 50,007 3.4 96.6
Other office and administrative support workers, including supervisors 16,265 24,586 40,851 39.8 60.2
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations: 9,477 894 10,371 91.4 8.6
Agricultural workers, including supervisors 8,994 873 9,867 91.2 8.8
Fishing, hunting, and forestry occupations 483 21 504 95.8 4.2

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 TABLE 1 Census 2000 Summary File 4 Data for Puerto Rico
Total employment by gender, occupational groups, subgroups and occupations (Hispanic or Latino and Non-Hispanic or Latino)

Puerto Rico
Number Percent
Occupational groups, subgroups and occupations Males Females Total Male Female
Construction, extraction, and maintenance occupations: 110,084 2,692 112,776 97.6 2.4
Construction and extraction occupations: 68,888 1,417 70,305 98.0 2.0
Supervisors, construction and extraction workers 5,373 206 5,579 96.3 3.7
Carpenters 11,568 117 11,685 99.0 1.0
Construction laborers 17,255 350 17,605 98.0 2.0
Electricians 4,236 78 4,314 98.2 1.8
Painters and paperhangers 2,942 88 3,030 97.1 2.9
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters 2,448 33 2,481 98.7 1.3
Construction traders workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construc 16,914 264 17,178 98.5 1.5
Other construction workers and helpers 7,975 259 8,234 96.9 3.1
Extraction workers 177 22 199 88.9 11.1
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations: 41,196 1,275 42,471 97.0 3.0
Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers 17,942 141 18,083 99.2 0.8
Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair workers, includ 23,254 1,134 24,388 95.4 4.6
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations: 100,675 40,652 141,327 71.2 28.8
Production occupations: 53,478 36,591 90,069 59.4 40.6
Assemblers and fabricators 4,520 4,557 9,077 49.8 50.2
Food processing workers 3,699 1,308 5,007 73.9 26.1
Metal workers and plastic workers 8,391 2,466 10,857 77.3 22.7
Printing workers 1,361 290 1,651 82.4 17.6
Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers 4,213 11,171 15,384 27.4 72.6
Woodworkers 1,785 55 1,840 97.0 3.0
Plant and system operators 1,791 151 1,942 92.2 7.8
Other production occupations, including supervisors 27,718 16,593 44,311 62.6 37.4
Transportation and material moving occupations: 47,197 4,061 51,258 92.1 7.9
Supervisors, transportation, and material moving workers 1,457 278 1,735 84.0 16.0
Aircraft and traffic control occupations 356 29 385 92.5 7.5
Rail and water transportation workers 451 10 461 97.8 2.2
Bus drivers 1,806 240 2,046 88.3 11.7
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers 18,844 478 19,322 97.5 2.5
Motor vehicle operators, except bus and truck drivers 5,210 199 5,409 96.3 3.7

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 TABLE 1 Census 2000 Summary File 4 Data for Puerto Rico
Total employment by gender, occupational groups, subgroups and occupations (Hispanic or Latino and Non-Hispanic or Latino)

Puerto Rico
Number Percent
Occupational groups, subgroups and occupations Males Females Total Male Female
Other transportation occupations 2,582 331 2,913 88.6 11.4
Material moving workers: 16,491 2,496 18,987 86.9 13.1
Laborers and material movers, hand 12,496 2,384 14,880 84.0 16.0
Other material moving workers, except laborers 3,995 112 4,107 97.3 2.7