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Kentucky Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 761,000 people in Kentucky have a disability, or 20.4% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 137,000 people, or 3.7% 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 Kentucky
(ages 5 and over)		 3,733 761 20.4% 137 3.7%
Disability Type
Sensory   213   44 20.5%
Mobility   493   124 25.1%
Cognitive   273   81 29.8%
Self-care   137   137  
Leaving the home   211   100 47.6%
Work disability   468   117 25.0%
Gender
Male 1,816 372 20.5% 59 3.2%
Female 1,917 389 20.3% 77 4.0%
Age
Children (5-17) 719 61 8.5% 9 1.2%
5-15 609 52 8.5% 7 1.2%
16-17 110 9 8.5% 1 1.0%
Working Ages (18-64) 2,530 440 17.4% 72 2.9%
18-44 1,532 178 11.6% 27 1.8%
45-64 998 263 26.3% 45 4.5%
Elderly (65+) 484 260 53.7% 55 11.5%
65-74 267 122 45.8% 20 7.4%
75-84 171 102 59.6% 25 14.8%
85+ 45 35 77.4% 11 23.3%
Race
White 3,399 707 20.8% 127 3.7%
African American 281 51 18.1% 8 3.0%
Asian/Pacific Islander 38 2 4.6% <0.5 1.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 25 9 35.9% 2 6.4%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 55 8 14.2% 1 2.0%
Non-Hispanic 3,678 753 20.5% 135 3.7%
Family Income
In poverty 624 207 33.1% 39 6.2%
Above poverty 3,100 553 17.8% 98 3.2%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 639 367 57.4% 82 12.8%
Supplemental Security Income 119 115 96.6% 23 19.1%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 1,676 121 7.2% 9 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 134 23 16.9% 1 1.1%
Not in labor force 706 296 41.9% 62 8.8%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 421 165 39.1% 31 7.4%
Lives with others 3,312 596 18.0% 105 3.2%

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


About the Kentucky 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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