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Georgia Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 1,182,000 people in Georgia have a disability, or 15.4% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 173,000 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 Georgia
(ages 5 and over)		 7,682 1,182 15.4% 173 2.3%
Disability Type
Sensory   305   50 16.4%
Mobility   685   151 22.0%
Cognitive   362   93 25.6%
Self-care   173   173  
Leaving the home   376   126 33.5%
Work disability   616   125 20.3%
Gender
Male 3,729 559 15.0% 69 1.8%
Female 3,953 623 15.7% 104 2.6%
Age
Children (5-17) 1,614 97 6.0% 9 0.6%
5-15 1,373 76 5.5% 8 0.6%
16-17 241 21 8.8% 1 0.5%
Working Ages (18-64) 5,306 695 13.1% 94 1.8%
18-44 3,464 297 8.6% 35 1.0%
45-64 1,842 398 21.6% 59 3.2%
Elderly (65+) 763 390 51.2% 69 9.1%
65-74 444 178 40.1% 23 5.3%
75-84 254 159 62.6% 31 12.1%
85+ 65 53 82.2% 15 23.4%
Race
White 5,135 805 15.7% 110 2.1%
African American 2,172 343 15.8% 61 2.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander 199 21 10.7% 2 0.9%
American Indian/Alaska Native 43 11 25.5% 2 4.6%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 445 28 6.3% 2 0.4%
Non-Hispanic 7,238 1,154 15.9% 171 2.4%
Family Income
In poverty 941 243 25.9% 43 4.6%
Above poverty 6,723 937 13.9% 129 1.9%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 947 504 53.3% 99 10.4%
Supplemental Security Income 120 112 93.5% 29 24.0%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 3,849 278 7.2% 16 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 259 33 12.9% 1 0.6%
Not in labor force 1,166 382 32.7% 77 6.6%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 851 228 26.8% 34 4.0%
Lives with others 6,832 954 14.0% 139 2.0%

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


About the Georgia 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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