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Introduction

Index of Colorado Pages.

Colorado Statistics

Colorado Disability Statistics.

Size and characteristics of the PAS workforce in Colorado.

Wages for Personal & Home Care Aides in Colorado.

State Program Data

Medicaid Waiver Data in Colorado.

Colorado Medicaid HCBS Data.

Federal HCBS Funding to Colorado.

State Only Funded HCBS in Colorado.

State Waiver Demo Information.

Colorado Legal Information

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Colorado PAS Projects

Research/Demo Projects to Improve PAS Workforce.

Colorado Resources

Contact Info and Descriptions for all Colorado Medicaid Waivers.

Colorado Agencies Related to PAS.

Colorado resources for employment of persons with disabilities.

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PAS Reports and Publications related to Colorado.

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Colorado Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 507,000 people in Colorado have a disability, or 12.1% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 81,000 people, or 1.9% 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 Colorado
(ages 5 and over)		 4,203 507 12.1% 81 1.9%
Disability Type
Sensory   159   25 15.9%
Mobility   294   72 24.3%
Cognitive   174   44 25.4%
Self-care   81   81  
Leaving the home   125   59 47.0%
Work disability   258   66 25.7%
Gender
Male 2,104 246 11.7% 33 1.6%
Female 2,100 261 12.4% 48 2.3%
Age
Children (5-17) 831 39 4.7% 4 0.5%
5-15 702 33 4.7% 4 0.5%
16-17 129 6 4.7% 1 0.5%
Working Ages (18-64) 2,930 290 9.9% 43 1.5%
18-44 1,823 122 6.7% 17 0.9%
45-64 1,107 169 15.2% 27 2.4%
Elderly (65+) 443 178 40.2% 33 7.5%
65-74 245 71 28.8% 11 4.5%
75-84 148 71 48.1% 13 8.6%
85+ 49 36 73.4% 10 19.4%
Race
White 3,611 435 12.1% 71 2.0%
African American 172 23 13.5% 3 1.9%
Asian/Pacific Islander 136 11 8.3% 2 1.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 76 15 20.4% 2 2.7%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 793 86 10.8% 14 1.7%
Non-Hispanic 3,411 421 12.4% 67 2.0%
Family Income
In poverty 453 92 20.3% 17 3.6%
Above poverty 3,743 415 11.1% 65 1.7%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 494 209 42.2% 41 8.2%
Supplemental Security Income 51 49 95.5% 14 27.6%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 2,219 132 5.9% 11 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 140 22 16.0% 1 1.0%
Not in labor force 557 135 24.3% 31 5.5%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 522 121 23.3% 21 3.9%
Lives with others 3,682 386 10.5% 60 1.6%

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


About the Colorado 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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