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Arizona Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 724,000 people in Arizona have a disability, or 14.3% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 111,000 people, or 2.2% 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 Arizona
(ages 5 and over)		 5,051 724 14.3% 111 2.2%
Disability Type
Sensory   219   34 15.4%
Mobility   410   99 24.2%
Cognitive   230   60 26.1%
Self-care   111   111  
Leaving the home   181   80 44.1%
Work disability   383   94 24.7%
Gender
Male 2,516 338 13.4% 49 1.9%
Female 2,535 386 15.2% 63 2.5%
Age
Children (5-17) 1,089 68 6.2% 7 0.6%
5-15 931 61 6.6% 5 0.6%
16-17 157 7 4.1% 1 0.7%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,277 376 11.5% 61 1.9%
18-44 2,081 157 7.6% 20 1.0%
45-64 1,196 218 18.2% 41 3.4%
Elderly (65+) 685 281 41.0% 44 6.3%
65-74 372 114 30.7% 12 3.3%
75-84 247 116 46.9% 19 7.6%
85+ 67 51 75.6% 12 18.5%
Race
White 4,000 608 15.2% 90 2.2%
African American 185 27 14.8% 6 3.3%
Asian/Pacific Islander 139 9 6.6% 1 0.6%
American Indian/Alaska Native 274 45 16.3% 9 3.3%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 1,347 145 10.7% 20 1.5%
Non-Hispanic 3,704 579 15.6% 91 2.5%
Family Income
In poverty 731 130 17.8% 23 3.1%
Above poverty 4,294 591 13.8% 89 2.1%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 792 344 43.4% 64 8.1%
Supplemental Security Income 61 57 93.8% 14 23.0%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 2,294 145 6.3% 9 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 175 19 10.9% 1 0.5%
Not in labor force 799 211 26.4% 52 6.5%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 515 136 26.4% 21 4.0%
Lives with others 4,536 588 13.0% 91 2.0%

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


About the Arizona 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.


Current & previous years of disability data from the ACS:

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