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Louisiana Statistics

Louisiana Disability Statistics.

Size and characteristics of the PAS workforce in Louisiana.

Wages for Personal & Home Care Aides in Louisiana.

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Medicaid Waiver Data in Louisiana.

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Louisiana Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 763,000 people in Louisiana have a disability, or 18.7% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 153,000 people, or 3.8% 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 Louisiana
(ages 5 and over)		 4,070 763 18.7% 153 3.8%
Disability Type
Sensory   215   47 22.0%
Mobility   467   136 29.1%
Cognitive   293   83 28.3%
Self-care   153   153  
Leaving the home   208   110 52.8%
Work disability   427   129 30.2%
Gender
Male 1,955 366 18.7% 65 3.3%
Female 2,115 397 18.8% 87 4.1%
Age
Children (5-17) 825 75 9.1% 9 1.1%
5-15 695 62 9.0% 8 1.1%
16-17 130 13 9.7% 1 0.9%
Working Ages (18-64) 2,755 437 15.9% 83 3.0%
18-44 1,658 171 10.3% 26 1.5%
45-64 1,097 266 24.2% 58 5.3%
Elderly (65+) 490 251 51.2% 61 12.3%
65-74 272 112 41.3% 20 7.3%
75-84 173 103 59.3% 26 14.9%
85+ 45 36 79.7% 15 32.5%
Race
White 2,650 491 18.5% 95 3.6%
African American 1,318 260 19.7% 56 4.2%
Asian/Pacific Islander 66 7 10.7% 2 2.6%
American Indian/Alaska Native 40 12 31.2% 2 6.0%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 116 14 12.2% 2 2.1%
Non-Hispanic 3,954 749 18.9% 150 3.8%
Family Income
In poverty 768 200 26.0% 44 5.7%
Above poverty 3,289 561 17.0% 108 3.3%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 608 326 53.6% 83 13.6%
Supplemental Security Income 107 102 95.1% 29 27.4%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 1,829 142 7.8% 9 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 169 27 16.2% 2 1.2%
Not in labor force 743 268 36.0% 72 9.7%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 475 163 34.2% 33 6.9%
Lives with others 3,595 601 16.7% 120 3.3%

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


About the Louisiana 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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