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State information > New Hampshire Disability Statistics Table From 2003 American Community Survey

New Hampshire Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 155,000 people in New Hampshire have a disability, or 13.1% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 24,000 people, or 2.0% 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 New Hampshire
(ages 5 and over)		 1,179 155 13.1% 24 2.0%
Disability Type          
Sensory   46   7 16.4%
Mobility   86   22 25.2%
Cognitive   54   11 21.0%
Self-care   24   24  
Leaving the home   37   17 45.9%
Work disability   77   19 25.2%
Gender          
Male 582 75 12.9% 12 2.0%
Female 598 80 13.3% 12 2.0%
Age          
Children (5-17) 232 14 6.2% 1 0.4%
    5-15 194 11 5.9% 1 0.4%
    16-17 37 3 7.7% <0.5 0.6%
Working Ages (18-64) 805 82 10.1% 12 1.5%
    18-44 468 32 6.9% 4 0.9%
    45-64 337 49 14.6% 8 2.4%
Elderly (65+) 143 59 41.4% 10 7.2%
    65-74 78 26 33.4% 4 5.8%
    75-84 49 23 46.1% 4 7.1%
    85+ 16 10 65.2% 2 14.8%
Race          
White 1,136 151 13.3% 23 2.0%
African American 13 2 14.5% 1 5.4%
Asian/Pacific Islander 22 1 6.1% <0.5 0.3%
American Indian/Alaska Native 5 2 33.6% <0.5 5.5%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 20 2 8.1% <0.5 1.9%
Non-Hispanic 1,159 153 13.2% 23 2.0%
Family Income          
In poverty 90 22 24.8% 4 4.6%
Above poverty 1,085 132 12.2% 19 1.8%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 166 73 44.1% 15 9.3%
Supplemental Security Income 13 13 98.5% 3 21.2%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 627 37 6.0% 3 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 38 6 14.6% <0.5 0.7%
Not in labor force 139 38 27.7% 9 6.2%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 122 35 28.5% 6 5.0%
Lives with others 1,057 120 11.4% 18 1.7%

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

About the New Hampshire 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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