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Florida Disability Data Table From the 2004 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2004

An estimated 2,496,000 people in Florida have a disability, or 15.7% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 440,000 people, or 2.8% 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 Florida
(ages 5 and over)		 15,878 2,496 15.7% 440 2.8%
Disability Type
Sensory   665   127 19.1%
Mobility   1,544   394 25.5%
Cognitive   847   246 29.1%
Self-care   440   440  
Leaving the home   704   326 46.3%
Work disability   1,417   376 26.5%
Gender
Male 7,692 1,160 15.1% 176 2.3%
Female 8,187 1,336 16.3% 264 3.2%
Age
Children (5-17) 2,870 171 6.0% 22 0.8%
5-15 2,421 146 6.0% 19 0.8%
16-17 449 24 5.4% 3 0.7%
Working Ages (18-64) 10,186 1,179 11.6% 200 2.0%
18-44 5,977 440 7.4% 61 1.0%
45-64 4,209 739 17.6% 139 3.3%
Elderly (65+) 2,822 1,146 40.6% 217 7.7%
65-74 1,443 423 29.3% 63 4.3%
75-84 1,049 488 46.5% 90 8.6%
85+ 330 235 71.2% 64 19.5%
Race
White 12,614 2067 16.4% 359 2.8%
African American 2,406 342 14.2% 64 2.7%
Asian/Pacific Islander 386 31 8.1% 4 1.0%
American Indian/Alaska Native 101 30 30.0% 8 7.5%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 2,979 333 11.2% 71 2.4%
Non-Hispanic 12,899 2,162 16.8% 369 2.9%
Family Income
In poverty 1,875 447 23.8% 89 4.7%
Above poverty 13,940 2,043 14.7% 350 2.5%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 3,130 1,320 42.2% 263 8.4%
Supplemental Security Income 253 241 95.2% 65 25.8%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 7,246 435 6.0% 38 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 530 72 13.6% 4 0.7%
Not in labor force 2,377 669 28.1% 159 6.7%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 1,934 567 29.3% 97 5.0%
Lives with others 13,944 1,928 13.8% 342 2.5%

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


About the Florida 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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