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Maine Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 223,000 people in Maine have a disability, or 18.5% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 36,000 people, or 3.0% 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 Maine
(ages 5 and over)		 1,204 223 18.5% 36 3.0%
Disability Type
Sensory   65   11 17.6%
Mobility   130   33 25.7%
Cognitive   82   21 26.2%
Self-care   36   36  
Leaving the home   57   26 45.9%
Work disability   128   30 23.6%
Gender
Male 585 107 18.3% 17 2.9%
Female 619 116 18.7% 19 3.1%
Age
Children (5-17) 218 16 7.5% 1 0.6%
5-15 180 14 7.6% 1 0.6%
16-17 38 3 7.0% <0.5 0.4%
Working Ages (18-64) 809 126 15.5% 21 2.6%
18-44 454 54 11.9% 8 1.8%
45-64 355 72 20.2% 13 3.6%
Elderly (65+) 177 81 45.8% 14 8.0%
65-74 93 32 33.8% 4 4.7%
75-84 64 34 53.6% 7 10.3%
85+ 19 15 78.1% 3 16.8%
Race
White 1,178 217 18.5% 35 3.0%
African American 9 1 14.6% 1 7.6%
Asian/Pacific Islander 10 1 8.9% <0.5 1.0%
American Indian/Alaska Native 17 5 29.5% 1 7.6%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 9 2 24.4% 1 6.5%
Non-Hispanic 1,195 221 18.5% 36 3.0%
Family Income
In poverty 124 42 34.2% 7 6.0%
Above poverty 1,075 180 16.7% 29 2.7%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 218 108 49.5% 21 9.7%
Supplemental Security Income 22 22 98.5% 6 25.5%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 609 53 8.8% 4 0.7%
Unemployed (in labor force) 38 5 12.9% 1 1.8%
Not in labor force 160 67 42.0% 16 9.9%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 156 54 34.5% 8 5.1%
Lives with others 1,047 169 16.1% 28 2.7%

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


About the Maine 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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