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Nebraska Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 237,000 people in Nebraska have a disability, or 15.2% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 31,000 people, or 2.0% 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 Nebraska
(ages 5 and over)		 1,562 237 15.2% 31 2.0%
Disability Type
Sensory   66   11 17.2%
Mobility   125   28 22.5%
Cognitive   67   15 23.0%
Self-care   31   31  
Leaving the home   61   20 32.9%
Work disability   113   21 18.4%
Gender
Male 766 113 14.8% 12 1.6%
Female 796 123 15.5% 19 2.3%
Age
Children (5-17) 319 21 6.6% 3 0.8%
5-15 273 18 6.5% 2 0.8%
16-17 47 3 6.8% 0 0.7%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,028 124 12.1% 14 1.3%
18-44 638 55 8.6% 5 0.8%
45-64 390 69 17.8% 9 2.2%
Elderly (65+) 214 91 42.6% 14 6.7%
65-74 110 35 31.8% 3 2.7%
75-84 79 37 47.1% 7 8.5%
85+ 26 19 74.8% 5 18.2%
Race
White 1,430 219 15.3% 29 2.0%
African American 64 7 11.8% 1 0.9%
Asian/Pacific Islander 28 3 9.2% 1 2.5%
American Indian/Alaska Native 21 5 24.1% 1 3.5%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 90 11 12.3% 1 0.9%
Non-Hispanic 1,472 226 15.3% 30 2.0%
Family Income
In poverty 166 38 22.9% 5 3.1%
Above poverty 1,391 198 14.3% 25 1.8%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 245 107 43.8% 18 7.3%
Supplemental Security Income 18 17 96.3% 4 21.2%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 812 70 8.7% 4 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 43 5 12.6% 1 1.3%
Not in labor force 169 48 28.5% 10 5.7%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 195 61 31.2% 8 3.9%
Lives with others 1,367 176 12.9% 23 1.7%

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


About the Nebraska 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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