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State information > South Carolina Disability Statistics Table From 2003 American Community Survey

South Carolina Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 626,000 people in South Carolina have a disability, or 16.8% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 104,000 people, or 2.8% 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 South Carolina
(ages 5 and over)		 3,736 626 16.8% 104 2.8%
Disability Type          
Sensory   168   32 19.2%
Mobility   395   91 23.1%
Cognitive   204   57 27.8%
Self-care   104   104  
Leaving the home   161   77 47.6%
Work disability   359   88 24.4%
Gender          
Male 1,795 289 16.1% 42 2.3%
Female 1,942 337 17.3% 62 3.2%
Age          
Children (5-17) 744 54 7.2% 6 0.7%
    5-15 626 43 6.9% 5 0.8%
    16-17 118 10 8.9% <0.5 0.4%
Working Ages (18-64) 2,505 355 14.2% 55 2.2%
    18-44 1,502 130 8.7% 18 1.2%
    45-64 1,002 224 22.4% 37 3.7%
Elderly (65+) 488 218 44.7% 43 8.8%
    65-74 278 98 35.2% 14 4.9%
    75-84 165 85 51.6% 18 10.9%
    85+ 45 35 76.9% 11 24.3%
Race          
White 2,547 420 16.5% 67 2.6%
African American 1,123 198 17.7% 36 3.2%
Asian/Pacific Islander 47 4 9.1% 1 1.4%
American Indian/Alaska Native 25 9 37.3% 1 2.3%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 82 8 9.3% 1 0.8%
Non-Hispanic 3,655 619 16.9% 103 2.8%
Family Income          
In poverty 503 145 28.8% 21 4.1%
Above poverty 3,225 481 14.9% 83 2.6%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 612 291 47.6% 63 10.2%
Supplemental Security Income 65 62 94.7% 15 23.1%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 1,727 119 6.9% 7 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 153 22 14.3% 2 1.2%
Not in labor force 599 213 35.6% 46 7.7%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 435 128 29.5% 20 4.6%
Lives with others 3,302 498 15.1% 84 2.5%

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

About the South Carolina 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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