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Index of Arkansas Pages.

Arkansas Statistics

Arkansas Disability Statistics.

Size and characteristics of the PAS workforce in Arkansas.

Wages for Personal & Home Care Aides in Arkansas.

State Program Data

Medicaid Waiver Data in Arkansas.

Arkansas Medicaid HCBS Data.

Federal HCBS Funding to Arkansas.

State Only Funded HCBS in Arkansas.

State Waiver Demo Information.

Arkansas Legal Information

Arkansas Olmstead Plans and Lawsuits.

Arkansas PAS Projects

Research/Demo Projects to Improve PAS Workforce.

Arkansas Resources

Contact Info and Descriptions for all Arkansas Medicaid Waivers.

Arkansas Agencies Related to PAS.

Arkansas resources for employment of persons with disabilities.

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PAS Reports and Publications related to Arkansas.

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Arkansas Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 546,000 people in Arkansas have a disability, or 21.7% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 105,000 people, or 4.2% 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 Arkansas
(ages 5 and over)		 2,513 546 21.7% 105 4.2%
Disability Type
Sensory   165   33 19.8%
Mobility   350   97 27.6%
Cognitive   202   57 28.3%
Self-care   105   105  
Leaving the home   143   73 50.8%
Work disability   328   88 26.9%
Gender
Male 1,231 262 21.3% 46 3.7%
Female 1,282 284 22.1% 59 4.6%
Age
Children (5-17) 487 43 8.9% 6 1.2%
5-15 404 37 9.2% 6 1.4%
16-17 83 6 7.1% 0 0.5%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,664 308 18.5% 56 3.4%
18-44 991 112 11.3% 15 1.5%
45-64 673 196 29.1% 41 6.1%
Elderly (65+) 361 195 53.9% 43 11.9%
65-74 207 93 44.7% 17 8.1%
75-84 119 73 61.6% 18 15.0%
85+ 35 29 81.5% 9 24.2%
Race
White 2,025 444 21.9% 85 4.2%
African American 392 89 22.8% 19 4.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander 32 3 8.3% 0 0.3%
American Indian/Alaska Native 36 14 39.6% 3 7.6%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 114 12 10.5% 1 1.0%
Non-Hispanic 2,399 534 22.3% 104 4.3%
Family Income
In poverty 428 138 32.2% 29 6.8%
Above poverty 2,076 407 19.6% 76 3.7%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 471 272 57.7% 63 13.4%
Supplemental Security Income 65 62 95.6% 16 25.2%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 1,161 105 9.1% 8 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 79 13 16.6% 1 1.2%
Not in labor force 419 189 45.1% 48 11.4%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 301 124 41.1% 23 7.7%
Lives with others 2,211 422 19.1% 82 3.7%

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


About the Arkansas 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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