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State information > Connecticut Disability Statistics Table From 2003 American Community Survey

Connecticut Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 384,000 people in Connecticut have a disability, or 12.2% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 70,000 people, or 2.2% 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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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)		 3,158 384 12.2% 70 2.2%
Disability Type          
Sensory   101   16 16.2%
Mobility   225   59 26.3%
Cognitive   117   31 26.8%
Self-care   70   70  
Leaving the home   114   54 47.6%
Work disability   204   60 29.6%
Gender          
Male 1,524 181 11.9% 27 1.8%
Female 1,634 203 12.4% 43 2.6%
Age          
Children (5-17) 619 26 4.2% 4 0.6%
    5-15 522 21 4.0% 3 0.6%
    16-17 96 5 5.4% 1 0.5%
Working Ages (18-64) 2,107 192 9.1% 31 1.5%
    18-44 1,231 78 6.3% 11 0.9%
    45-64 876 114 13.0% 20 2.2%
Elderly (65+) 433 166 38.4% 35 8.2%
    65-74 209 51 24.3% 8 3.7%
    75-84 164 75 46.0% 13 8.0%
    85+ 60 40 66.7% 15 24.4%
Race          
White 2,628 323 12.3% 59 2.3%
African American 297 40 13.4% 8 2.6%
Asian/Pacific Islander 101 7 6.9% 1 1.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 26 6 21.4% <0.5 <0.05%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 305 31 10.0% 5 1.5%
Non-Hispanic 2,853 353 12.4% 65 2.3%
Family Income          
In poverty 245 53 21.5% 12 4.9%
Above poverty 2,906 331 11.4% 58 2.0%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 481 197 40.9% 44 9.2%
Supplemental Security Income 42 39 93.5% 13 30.8%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 1,574 82 5.2% 4 0.3%
Unemployed (in labor force) 115 14 12.0% <0.5 0.2%
Not in labor force 414 96 23.1% 26 6.4%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 346 93 26.9% 16 4.6%
Lives with others 2,812 291 10.3% 54 1.9%

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

About the Connecticut 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.

Previous years of disability data from the ACS:

 

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