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Louisiana Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 761,000 people in Louisiana have a disability, or 18.9% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 124,000 people, or 3.1% 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 Louisiana
(ages 5 and over)		 4,029 761 18.9% 124 3.1%
Disability Type
Sensory   192   35 18.2%
Mobility   432   111 25.7%
Cognitive   246   63 25.5%
Self-care   124   124  
Leaving the home   221   89 40.0%
Work disability   390   92 23.6%
Gender
Male 1,925 372 19.3% 55 2.8%
Female 2,103 389 18.5% 69 3.3%
Age
Children (5-17) 856 64 7.5% 5 0.5%
5-15 721 52 7.2% 4 0.5%
16-17 135 12 9.1% 1 0.5%
Working Ages (18-64) 2,683 445 16.6% 62 2.3%
18-44 1,666 188 11.3% 21 1.2%
45-64 1,018 257 25.3% 41 4.0%
Elderly (65+) 490 252 51.4% 58 11.8%
65-74 275 113 41.0% 19 7.0%
75-84 174 105 60.3% 26 15.2%
85+ 41 34 82.9% 12 28.9%
Race
White 2,628 496 18.9% 77 2.9%
African American 1,287 252 19.6% 45 3.5%
Asian/Pacific Islander 61 5 7.9% 0 0.6%
American Indian/Alaska Native 38 11 28.3% 2 5.0%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 98 18 18.0% 3 3.1%
Non-Hispanic 3,931 743 18.9% 121 3.1%
Family Income
In poverty 730 170 23.3% 28 3.8%
Above poverty 3,289 589 17.9% 96 2.9%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 601 316 52.5% 73 12.2%
Supplemental Security Income 109 103 94.8% 24 22.3%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 1,808 173 9.6% 9 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 158 24 15.4% 2 1.1%
Not in labor force 699 248 35.4% 51 7.3%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 461 164 35.5% 29 6.3%
Lives with others 3,568 597 16.7% 95 2.7%

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


About the Louisiana 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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