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Nevada Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 256,000 people in Nevada have a disability, or 12.5% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 50,000 people, or 2.4% 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 Nevada
(ages 5 and over)		 2,045 256 12.5% 50 2.4%
Disability Type
Sensory   78   17 21.3%
Mobility   160   42 26.0%
Cognitive   66   22 32.8%
Self-care   50   50  
Leaving the home   69   36 51.6%
Work disability   130   40 30.8%
Gender
Male 1,033 128 12.4% 25 2.4%
Female 1,012 128 12.6% 25 2.4%
Age
Children (5-17) 415 18 4.3% 3 0.7%
5-15 358 12 3.5% 2 0.7%
16-17 57 5 9.5% 1 1.1%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,384 142 10.2% 27 1.9%
18-44 866 59 6.8% 8 0.9%
45-64 519 83 16.0% 19 3.7%
Elderly (65+) 246 96 39.2% 20 8.0%
65-74 145 43 29.6% 9 5.9%
75-84 84 42 50.7% 9 10.3%
85+ 17 11 64.3% 3 15.1%
Race
White 1,654 221 13.4% 41 2.5%
African American 143 13 8.8% 5 3.3%
Asian/Pacific Islander 124 10 8.4% 3 2.0%
American Indian/Alaska Native 39 5 13.4% 1 2.9%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 431 31 7.1% 5 1.2%
Non-Hispanic 1,614 225 14.0% 44 2.8%
Family Income
In poverty 225 44 19.3% 10 4.2%
Above poverty 1,811 212 11.7% 40 2.2%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 274 115 42.1% 28 10.4%
Supplemental Security Income 30 28 95.5% 9 30.9%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 993 58 5.9% 5 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 78 10 12.5% 1 0.8%
Not in labor force 307 74 24.0% 21 6.9%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 229 54 23.6% 9 3.8%
Lives with others 1,816 202 11.1% 41 2.3%

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


About the Nevada 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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