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

Louisiana Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 710,000 people in Louisiana have a disability, or 17.6% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 147,000 people, or 3.6% 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 Louisiana
(ages 5 and over)		 4,042 710 17.6% 147 3.6%
Disability Type          
Sensory   187   40 21.5%
Mobility   442   132 29.9%
Cognitive   249   73 29.4%
Self-care   147   147  
Leaving the home   208   113 54.4%
Work disability   406   123 30.3%
Gender          
Male 1,936 337 17.4% 58 3.0%
Female 2,105 373 17.7% 90 4.3%
Age          
Children (5-17) 847 64 7.5% 7 0.8%
    5-15 717 54 7.5% 6 0.9%
    16-17 130 10 7.5% 1 0.6%
Working Ages (18-64) 2,703 395 14.6% 76 2.8%
    18-44 1,668 159 9.5% 28 1.7%
    45-64 1,035 236 22.8% 47 4.6%
Elderly (65+) 491 251 51.1% 65 13.2%
    65-74 266 109 40.9% 26 9.8%
    75-84 178 105 58.8% 25 13.9%
    85+ 47 38 79.7% 14 29.7%
Race          
White 2,653 476 17.9% 99 3.7%
African American 1,287 221 17.2% 45 3.5%
Asian/Pacific Islander 69 6 8.0% 1 2.0%
American Indian/Alaska Native 40 10 25.8% 4 11.0%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 102 14 13.6% 3 3.2%
Non-Hispanic 3,940 696 17.7% 144 3.7%
Family Income          
In poverty 784 196 25.0% 43 5.5%
Above poverty 3,246 513 15.8% 104 3.2%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 602 325 53.9% 86 14.3%
Supplemental Security Income 100 97 96.2% 29 29.1%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 1,800 126 7.0% 11 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 161 23 14.3% 2 1.4%
Not in labor force 728 245 33.6% 62 8.5%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 456 160 35.1% 31 6.9%
Lives with others 3,586 549 15.3% 116 3.2%

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

About the Louisiana 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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