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State Information > Disability Statistics > 2003 > Alaska

Alaska Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 87,000 people in Alaska have a disability, or 15.0% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 13,000 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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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 Alaska
(ages 5 and over)		 582 87 15.0% 13 2.3%
Disability Type          
Sensory   28   5 16.0%
Mobility   51   12 22.7%
Cognitive   35   7 19.1%
Self-care   13   13  
Leaving the home   18   9 47.1%
Work disability   36   11 29.7%
Gender          
Male 298 44 14.9% 4 1.5%
Female 284 43 15.2% 9 3.1%
Age          
Children (5-17) 140 13 9.3% 1 0.5%
    5-15 119 10 8.2% 1 0.6%
    16-17 21 3 15.4% <0.5 0.3%
Working Ages (18-64) 402 56 13.8% 9 2.2%
    18-44 243 26 10.7% 3 1.4%
    45-64 160 30 18.7% 5 3.4%
Elderly (65+) 40 19 47.4% 4 9.0%
    65-74 26 10 39.1% 1 5.6%
    75-84 10 5 54.7% 1 13.9%
    85+ 4 3 82.9% 1 19.8%
Race          
White 437 62 14.1% 9 2.0%
African American 25 4 15.8% 1 2.6%
Asian/Pacific Islander 32 3 10.5% 1 1.6%
American Indian/Alaska Native 110 21 19.6% 3 3.1%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 25 3 13.2% 0 1.6%
Non-Hispanic 557 84 15.1% 13 2.3%
Family Income          
In poverty 53 12 22.6% 2 4.3%
Above poverty 527 75 14.2% 11 2.0%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 52 25 48.3% 4 8.6%
Supplemental Security Income 6 5 93.9% 2 37.9%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 282 30 10.5% 2 0.9%
Unemployed (in labor force) 33 5 14.7% 1 1.9%
Not in labor force 78 21 26.5% 6 7.3%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 59 17 29.6% 3 5.7%
Lives with others 523 70 13.4% 10 1.9%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2003 American Community Survey (ACS).

About the Alaska 2003 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 2003, 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.

These statistics from the 2003 ACS are both more current and more valid than estimates obtained from either the 2000 Census or previous years of the ACS. Problems discovered in two of the six disability questions, leading to a substantial overestimate of the disability population in the 2000 Census, have been fixed in the 2003 ACS questionnaire. These problems also affected prior years of the ACS, but to a lesser extent than the 2000 Census, due to different data collection procedures.


Current & previous years of disability data from the ACS:

 

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