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Massachusetts Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 865,000 people in Massachusetts have a disability, or 14.9% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 128,000 people, or 2.2% 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 Massachusetts
(ages 5 and over)		 5,822 865 14.9% 128 2.2%
Disability Type
Sensory   213   40 19.0%
Mobility   443   110 24.9%
Cognitive   293   65 22.4%
Self-care   128   128  
Leaving the home   270   96 35.6%
Work disability   433   92 21.4%
Gender
Male 2,784 393 14.1% 55 2.0%
Female 3,038 472 15.5% 73 2.4%
Age
Children (5-17) 1,065 69 6.5% 6 0.5%
5-15 912 58 6.4% 6 0.6%
16-17 152 11 7.2% 0 0.0%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,944 445 11.3% 54 1.4%
18-44 2,432 203 8.3% 22 0.9%
45-64 1,512 242 16.0% 32 2.1%
Elderly (65+) 814 351 43.1% 68 8.3%
65-74 413 132 32.0% 18 4.5%
75-84 304 147 48.2% 26 8.7%
85+ 98 73 74.6% 23 23.9%
Race
White 5,010 751 15.0% 114 2.3%
African American 362 51 14.0% 7 1.9%
Asian/Pacific Islander 261 28 10.6% 3 1.3%
American Indian/Alaska Native 30 9 28.9% 3 8.9%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 406 60 14.9% 7 1.6%
Non-Hispanic 5,416 805 14.9% 121 2.2%
Family Income
In poverty 495 124 25.0% 19 3.7%
Above poverty 5,317 741 13.9% 109 2.1%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 891 400 44.9% 82 9.2%
Supplemental Security Income 126 116 92.1% 25 19.6%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 2,968 194 6.5% 9 0.3%
Unemployed (in labor force) 208 25 12.2% 1 0.6%
Not in labor force 762 225 29.5% 44 5.8%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 693 219 31.7% 34 4.8%
Lives with others 5,129 646 12.6% 94 1.8%

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


About the Massachusetts 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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