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State Information > Disability Statistics > 2004 > Mississippi

Mississippi Disability Data Table From the 2004 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2004

An estimated 558,000 people in Mississippi have a disability, or 21.5% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 119,000 people, or 4.6% 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 Mississippi
(ages 5 and over)		 2,599 558 21.5% 119 4.6%
Disability Type          
Sensory   174   45 25.7%
Mobility   362   109 30.1%
Cognitive   219   70 32.1%
Self-care   119   119  
Leaving the home   169   90 53.4%
Work disability   345   103 29.7%
Gender          
Male 1,244 255 20.5% 50 4.0%
Female 1,355 303 22.3% 69 5.1%
Age          
Children (5-17) 536 48 9.0% 6 1.1%
    5-15 456 43 9.4% 6 1.3%
    16-17 80 5 6.5% 0 0.3%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,733 318 18.4% 65 3.8%
    18-44 1,058 124 11.8% 21 2.0%
    45-64 675 194 28.7% 44 6.6%
Elderly (65+) 330 192 58.1% 47 14.3%
    65-74 185 87 46.8% 17 9.2%
    75-84 112 76 68.2% 19 17.0%
    85+ 33 29 87.9% 11 33.8%
Race          
White 1,619 330 20.4% 72 4.5%
African American 953 225 23.6% 45 4.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander 12 1 12.3% 0 3.3%
American Indian/Alaska Native 13 4 29.0% 2 14.5%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 37 6 15.1% 0 1.0%
Non-Hispanic 2,562 553 21.6% 118 4.6%
Family Income          
In poverty 545 171 31.3% 38 7.0%
Above poverty 2,047 386 18.8% 80 3.9%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 435 264 60.6% 69 15.8%
Supplemental Security Income 79 76 95.8% 21 26.2%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 1,142 93 8.1% 6 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 116 19 16.3% 3 2.2%
Not in labor force 466 206 44.2% 56 12.1%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 276 116 42.1% 24 8.6%
Lives with others 2,323 442 19.0% 95 4.1%

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

About the Mississippi 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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