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Iowa Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 411,000 people in Iowa have a disability, or 15.4% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 63,000 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 Iowa
(ages 5 and over)		 2,666 411 15.4% 63 2.3%
Disability Type
Sensory   120   16 13.6%
Mobility   235   55 23.5%
Cognitive   138   33 23.7%
Self-care   63   63  
Leaving the home   96   44 45.9%
Work disability   214   52 24.2%
Gender
Male 1,314 206 15.7% 28 2.1%
Female 1,352 205 15.1% 35 2.6%
Age
Children (5-17) 510 35 6.9% 4 0.7%
5-15 430 29 6.9% 3 0.8%
16-17 80 6 7.3% <0.5 0.3%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,759 211 12.0% 29 1.7%
18-44 1,049 85 8.1% 8 0.8%
45-64 711 126 17.7% 21 2.9%
Elderly (65+) 396 165 41.5% 30 7.6%
65-74 196 55 28.1% 7 3.7%
75-84 149 73 48.8% 12 8.0%
85+ 51 37 71.9% 11 21.3%
Race
White 2,536 392 15.5% 60 2.4%
African American 60 12 19.8% 2 2.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander 50 4 8.1% <0.5 1.0%
American Indian/Alaska Native 16 5 30.9% <0.5 1.4%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 78 6 7.2% 1 1.1%
Non-Hispanic 2,588 405 15.7% 62 2.4%
Family Income
In poverty 267 70 26.1% 12 4.4%
Above poverty 2,392 340 14.2% 51 2.1%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 463 206 44.4% 40 8.7%
Supplemental Security Income 38 36 96.0% 6 16.6%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 1,368 97 7.1% 6 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 77 14 17.5% <0.5 0.2%
Not in labor force 313 101 32.2% 23 7.2%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 334 104 31.1% 16 4.7%
Lives with others 2,332 307 13.2% 47 2.0%

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


About the Iowa 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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