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Alabama Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 850,000 people in Alabama have a disability, or 20.9% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 155,000 people, or 3.8% 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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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.
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 Alabama
(ages 5 and over)		 4,069 850 20.9% 155 3.8%
Disability Type
Sensory   219   51 23.4%
Mobility   512   138 27.0%
Cognitive   271   86 31.8%
Self-care   155   155  
Leaving the home   293   113 38.7%
Work disability   479   113 23.6%
Gender
Male 1,945 394 20.3% 70 3.6%
Female 2,125 457 21.5% 85 4.0%
Age
Children (5-17) 803 60 7.5% 9 1.1%
5-15 679 48 7.1% 7 1.1%
16-17 124 12 9.5% 1 1.1%
Working Ages (18-64) 2,705 478 17.7% 75 2.8%
18-44 1,652 184 11.1% 27 1.6%
45-64 1,052 294 27.9% 48 4.5%
Elderly (65+) 562 312 55.6% 71 12.7%
65-74 314 138 44.0% 28 8.9%
75-84 190 127 66.8% 24 12.5%
85+ 59 48 81.2% 20 33.8%
Race
White 2,958 615 20.8% 107 3.6%
African American 1,043 226 21.7% 47 4.5%
Asian/Pacific Islander 36 4 10.4% 0 0.6%
American Indian/Alaska Native 54 14 25.8% 3 5.9%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 73 8 10.7% 1 1.0%
Non-Hispanic 3,996 843 21.1% 154 3.9%
Family Income
In poverty 650 187 28.8% 41 6.3%
Above poverty 3,404 663 19.5% 114 3.4%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 695 396 57.0% 87 12.6%
Supplemental Security Income 103 100 97.1% 27 26.2%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 1,852 183 9.9% 10 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 150 23 15.3% 2 1.3%
Not in labor force 694 271 39.1% 63 9.1%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 449 177 39.4% 35 7.8%
Lives with others 3,620 674 18.6% 120 3.3%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2002 American Community Survey (ACS).


About the Alabama 2002 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 2002, 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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