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State Information > Disability Statistics > 2004 > Alaska

Alaska Disability Data Table From the 2004 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2004

An estimated 88,000 people in Alaska have a disability, or 14.9% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 17,000 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 Alaska
(ages 5 and over)		 587 88 14.9% 17 2.8%
Disability Type          
Sensory   29   6 20.5%
Mobility   51   16 30.5%
Cognitive   36   8 22.4%
Self-care   17   17  
Leaving the home   21   12 56.0%
Work disability   39   12 31.9%
Gender          
Male 296 45 15.1% 7 2.3%
Female 291 43 14.7% 10 3.4%
Age          
Children (5-17) 139 12 8.7% 2 1.5%
    5-15 115 10 8.8% 2 1.7%
    16-17 23 2 8.3% 0 0.7%
Working Ages (18-64) 409 55 13.6% 10 2.4%
    18-44 243 24 10.0% 3 1.3%
    45-64 166 31 18.8% 7 4.1%
Elderly (65+) 39 20 51.0% 5 11.7%
    65-74 25 10 41.0% 1 5.5%
    75-84 11 7 64.1% 2 20.1%
    85+ 3 3 82.6% 1 30.5%
Race          
White 446 64 14.4% 13 2.8%
African American 28 4 13.8% 1 2.9%
Asian/Pacific Islander 37 5 13.4% 1 2.0%
American Indian/Alaska Native 109 19 17.5% 3 3.2%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 27 4 15.5% 1 4.4%
Non-Hispanic 560 83 14.9% 15 2.8%
Family Income          
In poverty 45 10 22.2% 2 4.2%
Above poverty 538 77 14.3% 15 2.7%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 50 25 50.8% 8 15.0%
Supplemental Security Income 8 7 94.4% 2 21.5%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 287 26 9.0% 2 0.8%
Unemployed (in labor force) 28 4 15.9% 1 2.0%
Not in labor force 86 25 29.1% 7 8.2%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 54 16 29.4% 2 4.6%
Lives with others 533 72 13.5% 14 2.7%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2004 American Community Survey (ACS).

About the Alaska 2004 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 2004, 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.


Current & previous years of disability data from the ACS:

 

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