A recently released report from the Center for Health Workforce Studies documents the critical role that the health care sector plays for New York's employment and the overall New York economy. The Health Care Workforce in New York, 2006: Trends in the Supply and Demand for Health Workers indicates that employment in the health sector accounted for 11.4% of total employment in New York in 2006. Nationally, 8.7% of employment is in the health sector, making the representation of health sector jobs in New York more than 30% higher than it is nationally. According to the report, between 1990 and 2006, employment in New York's health care sector—which has seen a steady and continuous annual increase in employment since 1997—grew by more than 22%, while employment in all other sectors grew by just over 2%. 
     
The full report is available at chws.albany.edu.