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

Mississippi Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 559,000 people in Mississippi have a disability, or 21.7% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 120,000 people, or 4.6% 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 Mississippi
(ages 5 and over)		 2,575 559 21.7% 120 4.6%
Disability Type          
Sensory   163   39 23.9%
Mobility   356   109 30.6%
Cognitive   217   62 28.7%
Self-care   120   120  
Leaving the home   160   86 53.5%
Work disability   331   100 30.3%
Gender          
Male 1,229 258 21.0% 47 3.8%
Female 1,346 301 22.4% 73 5.4%
Age          
Children (5-17) 546 49 9.0% 7 1.3%
    5-15 462 40 8.6% 6 1.3%
    16-17 84 9 11.3% 1 1.4%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,698 316 18.6% 64 3.8%
    18-44 1,052 133 12.6% 22 2.1%
    45-64 647 183 28.2% 41 6.4%
Elderly (65+) 330 195 59.0% 49 14.7%
    65-74 189 95 50.3% 19 10.0%
    75-84 110 73 66.5% 19 17.7%
    85+ 32 27 84.5% 10 32.3%
Race          
White 1,604 333 20.7% 65 4.0%
African American 933 223 23.9% 53 5.7%
Asian/Pacific Islander 23 3 12.0% <0.5 1.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 17 5 31.5% 1 9.0%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 35 3 9.4% 1 2.1%
Non-Hispanic 2,540 556 21.9% 119 4.7%
Family Income          
In poverty 494 155 31.4% 40 8.1%
Above poverty 2,076 403 19.4% 79 3.8%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 429 261 60.9% 68 15.8%
Supplemental Security Income 81 77 94.7% 23 28.3%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 1,148 103 8.9% 7 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 114 19 17.0% 2 1.8%
Not in labor force 426 193 45.4% 54 12.8%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 277 116 41.8% 26 9.3%
Lives with others 2,298 444 19.3% 94 4.1%

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

About the Mississippi 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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