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

Oklahoma Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 552,000 people in Oklahoma have a disability, or 17.5% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 104,000 people, or 3.3% 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 Oklahoma
(ages 5 and over)		 3,163 552 17.5% 104 3.3%
Disability Type          
Sensory   182   35 19.1%
Mobility   360   99 27.5%
Cognitive   195   55 28.1%
Self-care   104   104  
Leaving the home   144   76 52.7%
Work disability   288   89 30.9%
Gender          
Male 1,536 254 16.6% 46 3.0%
Female 1,627 298 18.3% 58 3.6%
Age          
Children (5-17) 643 39 6.1% 5 0.8%
    5-15 543 32 5.9% 4 0.8%
    16-17 100 7 6.8% 1 0.9%
Working Ages (18-64) 2,090 310 14.9% 57 2.7%
    18-44 1,261 119 9.4% 17 1.4%
    45-64 830 192 23.1% 40 4.8%
Elderly (65+) 429 203 47.2% 42 9.8%
    65-74 236 88 37.4% 16 6.6%
    75-84 156 87 55.5% 19 11.9%
    85+ 37 28 74.5% 8 21.3%
Race          
White 2,541 458 18.0% 83 3.3%
African American 248 42 17.1% 10 4.0%
Asian/Pacific Islander 63 4 5.8% <0.5 <0.05%
American Indian/Alaska Native 359 70 19.5% 14 3.8%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 172 13 7.6% 2 1.2%
Non-Hispanic 2,991 539 18.0% 102 3.4%
Family Income          
In poverty 482 125 26.0% 28 5.8%
Above poverty 2,674 425 15.9% 76 2.8%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 521 255 49.0% 62 11.8%
Supplemental Security Income 58 54 93.2% 16 27.0%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 1,424 124 8.7% 9 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 110 16 14.8% 2 1.4%
Not in labor force 541 169 31.3% 46 8.6%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 384 139 36.3% 26 6.9%
Lives with others 2,779 413 14.8% 78 2.8%

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

About the Oklahoma 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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