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Alaska Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 85,000 people in Alaska have a disability, or 14.8% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 13,000 people, or 2.3% 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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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 Alaska
(ages 5 and over)		 576 85 14.8% 13 2.3%
Disability Type
Sensory   27   3 12.4%
Mobility   48   12 24.8%
Cognitive   27   6 24.1%
Self-care   13   13  
Leaving the home   22   9 42.6%
Work disability   35   10 29.0%
Gender
Male 294 43 14.5% 6 1.9%
Female 281 42 15.0% 7 2.6%
Age
Children (5-17) 142 11 7.4% 1 1.1%
5-15 119 9 7.3% 1 1.2%
16-17 23 2 8.1% 0 0.2%
Working Ages (18-64) 396 56 14.1% 8 2.1%
18-44 236 26 11.0% 3 1.5%
45-64 160 30 18.7% 5 3.0%
Elderly (65+) 38 18 48.5% 3 8.5%
65-74 23 8 35.6% 1 4.9%
75-84 13 8 63.3% 1 9.5%
85+ 2 2 97.6% 1 40.7%
Race
White 444 61 13.7% 9 2.1%
African American 22 3 11.8% 0 1.6%
Asian/Pacific Islander 35 6 16.1% 1 2.9%
American Indian/Alaska Native 108 21 19.4% 3 2.8%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 22 5 21.0% 1 5.8%
Non-Hispanic 554 80 14.5% 12 2.1%
Family Income
In poverty 41 10 25.3% 2 4.6%
Above poverty 532 74 14.0% 11 2.1%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 50 24 47.9% 5 10.6%
Supplemental Security Income 5 5 95.3% 2 40.5%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 278 27 9.7% 2 0.8%
Unemployed (in labor force) 29 5 19.1% 1 1.9%
Not in labor force 80 23 28.9% 6 7.1%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 51 14 26.7% 3 5.1%
Lives with others 524 71 13.6% 10 2.0%

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


About the Alaska 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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