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

Idaho Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 207,000 people in Idaho have a disability, or 16.8% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 32,000 people, or 2.6% 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 Idaho
(ages 5 and over)		 1,230 207 16.8% 32 2.6%
Disability Type          
Sensory   66   10 15.5%
Mobility   119   28 23.7%
Cognitive   78   19 25.0%
Self-care   32   32  
Leaving the home   48   24 50.5%
Work disability   102   26 25.7%
Gender          
Male 610 103 16.9% 12 2.0%
Female 620 104 16.8% 20 3.1%
Age          
Children (5-17) 266 19 7.0% 2 0.9%
    5-15 223 17 7.6% 2 1.1%
    16-17 43 2 4.0% <0.5 <0.05%
Working Ages (18-64) 816 117 14.3% 15 1.8%
    18-44 502 50 9.9% 7 1.3%
    45-64 314 67 21.3% 8 2.6%
Elderly (65+) 148 71 48.3% 15 9.9%
    65-74 76 28 36.8% 4 5.0%
    75-84 55 31 56.6% 6 11.6%
    85+ 17 12 72.6% 5 26.5%
Race          
White 1,151 197 17.1% 30 2.6%
African American 8 1 13.4% <0.5 3.3%
Asian/Pacific Islander 20 2 9.4% <0.5 0.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 29 7 23.5% 1 3.4%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 96 12 12.8% 2 1.8%
Non-Hispanic 1,133 194 17.2% 30 2.7%
Family Income          
In poverty 164 38 23.2% 6 3.4%
Above poverty 1,063 169 15.9% 26 2.5%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 182 91 50.0% 18 9.9%
Supplemental Security Income 22 22 98.5% 5 23.5%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 598 56 9.3% 3 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 42 7 16.3% <0.5 0.8%
Not in labor force 173 54 31.1% 11 6.5%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 110 43 39.3% 6 5.2%
Lives with others 1,120 164 14.6% 26 2.3%

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

About the Idaho 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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