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Montana Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 149,000 people in Montana have a disability, or 17.8% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 21,000 people, or 2.5% 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 Montana
(ages 5 and over)		 834 149 17.8% 21 2.5%
Disability Type
Sensory   45   6 13.3%
Mobility   89   19 21.2%
Cognitive   47   12 25.3%
Self-care   21   21  
Leaving the home   37   14 37.6%
Work disability   71   15 20.4%
Gender
Male 415 77 18.7% 10 2.3%
Female 419 71 17.0% 12 2.8%
Age
Children (5-17) 161 13 7.8% 2 1.3%
5-15 133 9 7.1% 2 1.5%
16-17 28 3 11.1% 0 0.3%
Working Ages (18-64) 557 81 14.5% 11 1.9%
18-44 316 34 10.7% 4 1.4%
45-64 241 47 19.5% 6 2.6%
Elderly (65+) 116 56 47.8% 8 7.2%
65-74 62 24 38.4% 3 4.5%
75-84 42 22 52.9% 3 7.8%
85+ 12 10 79.2% 2 19.3%
Race
White 774 138 17.8% 20 2.6%
African American 5 1 32.3% 0 0.0%
Asian/Pacific Islander 4 1 19.7% 0 3.7%
American Indian/Alaska Native 64 11 16.8% 1 1.9%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 14 3 23.6% 0 2.9%
Non-Hispanic 820 146 17.8% 21 2.5%
Family Income
In poverty 114 27 23.3% 4 3.6%
Above poverty 715 121 17.0% 17 2.3%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 143 70 49.1% 11 7.8%
Supplemental Security Income 15 14 94.3% 3 17.1%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 403 38 9.5% 2 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 25 3 13.8% 0 1.5%
Not in labor force 125 39 31.0% 8 6.7%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 100 37 37.3% 5 5.0%
Lives with others 734 112 15.2% 16 2.2%

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


About the Montana 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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