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New Jersey Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 982,000 people in New Jersey have a disability, or 12.5% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 198,000 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 New Jersey
(ages 5 and over)		 7,887 982 12.5% 198 2.5%
Disability Type
Sensory   256   55 21.5%
Mobility   579   176 30.5%
Cognitive   319   100 31.4%
Self-care   198   198  
Leaving the home   305   149 48.9%
Work disability   537   164 30.6%
Gender
Male 3,810 443 11.6% 73 1.9%
Female 4,077 539 13.2% 125 3.1%
Age
Children (5-17) 1,567 80 5.1% 11 0.7%
5-15 1,342 68 5.0% 10 0.8%
16-17 225 12 5.4% <0.5 0.2%
Working Ages (18-64) 5,260 470 8.9% 86 1.6%
18-44 3,168 183 5.8% 26 0.8%
45-64 2,092 287 13.7% 60 2.9%
Elderly (65+) 1,060 432 40.8% 101 9.6%
65-74 545 157 28.9% 30 5.5%
75-84 394 191 48.6% 41 10.4%
85+ 122 83 68.4% 31 25.0%
Race
White 5,832 751 12.9% 149 2.6%
African American 1,092 154 14.1% 37 3.4%
Asian/Pacific Islander 543 31 5.7% 4 0.7%
American Indian/Alaska Native 37 9 24.0% 1 2.9%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 1,127 120 10.6% 22 1.9%
Non-Hispanic 6,761 862 12.8% 176 2.6%
Family Income
In poverty 631 148 23.4% 39 6.2%
Above poverty 7,239 833 11.5% 157 2.2%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 1,137 469 41.3% 114 10.0%
Supplemental Security Income 117 108 92.3% 32 27.2%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 3,839 185 4.8% 19 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 311 32 10.4% 2 0.7%
Not in labor force 1,102 253 23.0% 65 5.9%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 787 218 27.8% 47 6.0%
Lives with others 7,101 764 10.8% 150 2.1%

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


About the New Jersey 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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