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Index of Arizona Pages.

Arizona Statistics

Arizona Disability Statistics.

Size and characteristics of the PAS workforce in Arizona.

Wages for Personal & Home Care Aides in Arizona.

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Medicaid Waiver Data in Arizona.

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Federal HCBS Funding to Arizona.

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Contact Info and Descriptions for all Arizona Medicaid Waivers.

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Arizona Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 775,000 people in Arizona have a disability, or 14.5% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 131,000 people, or 2.4% 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 Arizona
(ages 5 and over)		 5,358 775 14.5% 131 2.4%
Disability Type
Sensory   231   40 17.3%
Mobility   460   117 25.4%
Cognitive   272   70 25.8%
Self-care   131   131  
Leaving the home   202   93 45.9%
Work disability   416   108 26.0%
Gender
Male 2,669 375 14.1% 58 2.2%
Female 2,689 400 14.9% 73 2.7%
Age
Children (5-17) 1,112 70 6.3% 9 0.9%
5-15 950 58 6.2% 9 0.9%
16-17 162 11 6.9% 1 0.4%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,520 414 11.8% 67 1.9%
18-44 2,191 169 7.7% 21 1.0%
45-64 1,329 245 18.4% 45 3.4%
Elderly (65+) 726 292 40.2% 55 7.5%
65-74 402 117 29.2% 17 4.3%
75-84 253 124 49.1% 23 8.9%
85+ 71 50 71.0% 15 21.2%
Race
White 4,236 629 14.8% 101 2.4%
African American 198 30 15.3% 7 3.7%
Asian/Pacific Islander 143 14 9.5% 2 1.1%
American Indian/Alaska Native 276 53 19.1% 12 4.4%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 1,478 151 10.2% 23 1.6%
Non-Hispanic 3,880 624 16.1% 107 2.8%
Family Income
In poverty 719 137 19.0% 26 3.6%
Above poverty 4,617 637 13.8% 105 2.3%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 840 360 42.9% 74 8.8%
Supplemental Security Income 73 70 96.5% 18 24.3%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 2,504 159 6.4% 10 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 157 25 16.3% 2 1.1%
Not in labor force 843 228 27.1% 55 6.5%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 596 162 27.2% 25 4.2%
Lives with others 4,762 613 12.9% 105 2.2%

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


About the Arizona 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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