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Index of Connecticut Pages.

Connecticut Statistics

Connecticut Disability Statistics.

Size and characteristics of the PAS workforce in Connecticut.

Wages for Personal & Home Care Aides in Connecticut.

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Federal HCBS Funding to Connecticut.

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Connecticut Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 408,000 people in Connecticut have a disability, or 12.9% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 73,000 people, or 2.3% 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 Connecticut
(ages 5 and over)		 3,155 408 12.9% 73 2.3%
Disability Type
Sensory   117   25 21.5%
Mobility   231   63 27.4%
Cognitive   135   38 28.1%
Self-care   73   73  
Leaving the home   119   54 45.8%
Work disability   212   58 27.5%
Gender
Male 1,529 185 12.1% 29 1.9%
Female 1,626 223 13.7% 43 2.7%
Age
Children (5-17) 605 35 5.8% 5 0.8%
5-15 510 28 5.5% 4 0.8%
16-17 96 7 7.7% 1 0.6%
Working Ages (18-64) 2,111 208 9.8% 33 1.6%
18-44 1,198 89 7.4% 14 1.2%
45-64 913 119 13.0% 19 2.0%
Elderly (65+) 439 165 37.5% 35 8.0%
65-74 207 51 24.9% 9 4.4%
75-84 171 72 42.2% 15 8.5%
85+ 62 41 66.3% 11 18.3%
Race
White 2,619 344 13.1% 62 2.4%
African American 303 40 13.3% 8 2.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander 111 6 5.2% 1 0.7%
American Indian/Alaska Native 22 4 17.3% 0 2.0%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 336 44 13.0% 7 2.0%
Non-Hispanic 2,819 364 12.9% 66 2.3%
Family Income
In poverty 243 68 28.1% 15 6.3%
Above poverty 2,905 338 11.6% 57 2.0%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 497 201 40.4% 44 8.8%
Supplemental Security Income 42 38 91.8% 12 29.4%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 1,592 89 5.6% 8 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 102 14 13.7% 1 0.8%
Not in labor force 411 105 25.5% 24 5.8%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 372 102 27.4% 19 5.1%
Lives with others 2,784 306 11.0% 54 1.9%

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


About the Connecticut 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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