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State information > North Dakota Disability Statistics Table From 2003 American Community Survey

North Dakota Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 82,000 people in North Dakota have a disability, or 14.3% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 10,000 people, or 1.8% 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 North Dakota
(ages 5 and over)		 573 82 14.3% 10 1.8%
Disability Type          
Sensory   27   4 12.9%
Mobility   45   9 20.5%
Cognitive   26   4 16.9%
Self-care   10   10  
Leaving the home   18   7 38.0%
Work disability   39   8 21.0%
Gender          
Male 285 40 14.1% 4 1.5%
Female 288 42 14.5% 6 2.1%
Age          
Children (5-17) 109 5 5.0% <0.5 0.4%
    5-15 90 4 4.2% <0.5 0.4%
    16-17 19 2 8.6% <0.5 <0.05%
Working Ages (18-64) 378 40 10.6% 5 1.2%
    18-44 226 17 7.6% 1 0.6%
    45-64 152 23 15.0% 3 2.1%
Elderly (65+) 86 37 42.7% 5 6.3%
    65-74 44 13 29.7% 1 3.4%
    75-84 31 15 50.3% 2 6.7%
    85+ 11 8 73.0% 2 16.4%
Race          
White 533 76 14.3% 9 1.7%
African American 5 1 10.5% <0.5 2.3%
Asian/Pacific Islander 6 1 9.8% <0.5 6.1%
American Indian/Alaska Native 28 5 17.4% 1 2.1%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 8 1 6.3% <0.5 <0.05%
Non-Hispanic 565 82 14.4% 10 1.8%
Family Income          
In poverty 66 17 25.1% 2 3.3%
Above poverty 505 65 13.0% 8 1.6%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 98 43 44.0% 7 7.1%
Supplemental Security Income 6 6 95.7% 1 14.8%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 295 19 6.5% 1 0.2%
Unemployed (in labor force) 13 1 10.9% <0.5 0.4%
Not in labor force 66 19 29.2% 4 5.7%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 83 25 30.0% 3 3.8%
Lives with others 490 57 11.7% 7 1.5%

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

About the North Dakota 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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