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Alabama Statistics

Alabama Disability Statistics.

Size and characteristics of the PAS workforce in Alabama.

Wages for Personal & Home Care Aides in Alabama.

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Alabama Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 862,000 people in Alabama have a disability, or 20.7% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 165,000 people, or 4.0% of the population 5 and over, have difficulty performing self-care activities, also known as Activities of Daily Living, such as dressing, bathing, or getting around inside the home.

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Prevalence of overall disability and of self-care difficulty, by gender, age, race and ethnicity, type of disability, family income, benefit recipiency, employment status, and living arrangement.
Subject Population (Thousands) With a disability (Thousands) With a disability (Percent) With a self-care difficulty (Thousands) With a self-care difficulty (Percent)
Total in Alabama
(ages 5 and over)		 4,160 862 20.7% 165 4.0%
Disability Type
Sensory   259   60 23.1%
Mobility   551   151 27.4%
Cognitive   320   93 29.2%
Self-care   165   165  
Leaving the home   245   125 50.8%
Work disability   506   142 28.0%
Gender
Male 1,999 406 20.3% 67 3.4%
Female 2,161 456 21.1% 98 4.5%
Age
Children (5-17) 793 71 8.9% 10 1.2%
5-15 669 60 9.0% 8 1.2%
16-17 125 11 8.8% 1 1.0%
Working Ages (18-64) 2,788 490 17.6% 82 2.9%
18-44 1,636 191 11.6% 26 1.6%
45-64 1,152 299 26.0% 56 4.9%
Elderly (65+) 578 301 52.1% 74 12.8%
65-74 328 137 41.6% 24 7.3%
75-84 190 116 60.9% 30 15.7%
85+ 60 49 81.4% 20 33.8%
Race
White 2,990 605 20.2% 110 3.7%
African American 1,083 246 22.7% 52 4.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander 46 4 9.3% 0 0.9%
American Indian/Alaska Native 47 16 32.7% 4 8.5%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 87 9 10.4% 1 1.4%
Non-Hispanic 4,073 853 20.9% 164 4.0%
Family Income
In poverty 671 210 31.2% 45 6.7%
Above poverty 3,479 650 18.7% 120 3.4%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 744 409 55.0% 99 13.3%
Supplemental Security Income 123 119 96.3% 33 26.4%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 1,892 160 8.5% 8 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 142 25 17.9% 1 1.0%
Not in labor force 743 304 40.9% 72 9.7%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 506 192 38.0% 39 7.8%
Lives with others 3,654 670 18.3% 126 3.4%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2005 American Community Survey (ACS).


About the Alabama 2005 ACS Disability Data

The Center for Personal Assistance Services has compiled state and national data on the prevalence of overall disability and of self-care difficulty, by gender, age, race and ethnicity, type of disability, family income, benefit recipiency, employment status, and living arrangement. These statistics are based on our tabulations of public use data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) for 2005, containing information on over 1 million residents of randomly selected U.S. households. Because it is a household survey, people living in institutions such as nursing homes are not included.


Current & previous years of disability data from the ACS:

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