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Missouri Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 824,000 people in Missouri have a disability, or 16.0% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 138,000 people, or 2.7% 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 Missouri
(ages 5 and over)		 5,161 824 16.0% 138 2.7%
Disability Type
Sensory   224   38 17.0%
Mobility   511   126 24.6%
Cognitive   268   63 23.5%
Self-care   138   138  
Leaving the home   221   99 44.5%
Work disability   456   114 24.9%
Gender
Male 2,502 383 15.3% 55 2.2%
Female 2,658 441 16.6% 83 3.1%
Age
Children (5-17) 1,024 70 6.8% 9 0.9%
5-15 866 59 6.8% 8 0.9%
16-17 158 10 6.6% 1 0.8%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,434 418 12.2% 65 1.9%
18-44 2,082 164 7.9% 22 1.1%
45-64 1,352 255 18.8% 43 3.2%
Elderly (65+) 703 336 47.8% 64 9.1%
65-74 373 135 36.0% 19 5.2%
75-84 247 135 54.7% 27 11.1%
85+ 82 66 80.6% 17 21.0%
Race
White 4,460 727 16.3% 122 2.7%
African American 592 85 14.3% 15 2.5%
Asian/Pacific Islander 79 4 5.4% <0.5 0.6%
American Indian/Alaska Native 54 16 29.9% 3 5.4%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 111 10 9.3% 2 1.8%
Non-Hispanic 5,049 814 16.1% 136 2.7%
Family Income
In poverty 589 162 27.6% 32 5.4%
Above poverty 4,557 659 14.5% 106 2.3%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 837 417 49.8% 81 9.7%
Supplemental Security Income 79 77 97.0% 20 25.7%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 2,542 160 6.3% 13 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 176 24 13.5% 4 2.3%
Not in labor force 704 234 33.2% 48 6.9%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 608 203 33.4% 35 5.8%
Lives with others 4,552 621 13.6% 103 2.3%

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


About the Missouri 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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