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Arkansas Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 546,000 people in Arkansas have a disability, or 22.2% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 99,000 people, or 4.0% 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 Arkansas
(ages 5 and over)		 2,456 546 22.2% 99 4.0%
Disability Type
Sensory   164   40 24.3%
Mobility   350   94 26.8%
Cognitive   182   53 28.9%
Self-care   99   99  
Leaving the home   174   71 40.7%
Work disability   299   76 25.6%
Gender
Male 1,189 256 21.5% 41 3.4%
Female 1,267 290 22.9% 58 4.6%
Age
Children (5-17) 494 40 8.0% 3 0.7%
5-15 414 34 8.2% 3 0.8%
16-17 79 6 7.3% 0 0.4%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,611 303 18.8% 50 3.1%
18-44 976 127 13.0% 21 2.2%
45-64 635 176 27.7% 29 4.6%
Elderly (65+) 351 203 57.7% 45 12.8%
65-74 193 94 48.7% 16 8.3%
75-84 121 77 63.2% 16 13.5%
85+ 36 32 87.9% 13 34.4%
Race
White 2,011 457 22.7% 79 3.9%
African American 388 80 20.6% 18 4.7%
Asian/Pacific Islander 26 2 6.3% 0 0.0%
American Indian/Alaska Native 35 14 41.0% 3 9.3%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 79 8 10.6% 1 1.1%
Non-Hispanic 2,376 537 22.6% 98 4.1%
Family Income
In poverty 361 112 31.0% 25 6.8%
Above poverty 2,088 433 20.7% 74 3.5%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 444 264 59.3% 64 14.4%
Supplemental Security Income 60 58 96.9% 17 29.1%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 1,134 117 10.4% 6 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 88 17 19.2% 1 0.7%
Not in labor force 384 169 44.0% 44 11.4%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 281 120 42.7% 24 8.6%
Lives with others 2,174 426 19.6% 74 3.4%

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


About the Arkansas 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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