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New Mexico Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 290,000 people in New Mexico have a disability, or 17.0% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 51,000 people, or 3.0% 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 New Mexico
(ages 5 and over)		 1,706 290 17.0% 51 3.0%
Disability Type
Sensory   89   16 18.4%
Mobility   183   48 26.3%
Cognitive   104   28 27.3%
Self-care   51   51  
Leaving the home   72   38 52.0%
Work disability   158   45 28.2%
Gender
Male 830 140 16.8% 22 2.7%
Female 876 150 17.1% 29 3.3%
Age
Children (5-17) 367 20 5.4% 1 0.4%
5-15 313 18 5.8% 1 0.4%
16-17 53 2 3.4% <0.5 0.1%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,119 159 14.2% 27 2.4%
18-44 675 64 9.5% 12 1.7%
45-64 444 95 21.3% 15 3.4%
Elderly (65+) 221 111 50.5% 23 10.6%
65-74 123 51 41.2% 8 6.6%
75-84 76 43 57.0% 9 12.3%
85+ 22 18 79.5% 6 27.4%
Race
White 1,239 220 17.7% 37 3.0%
African American 39 7 18.8% 1 2.4%
Asian/Pacific Islander 36 2 5.7% <0.5 <0.05%
American Indian/Alaska Native 173 25 14.3% 6 3.5%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 726 117 16.1% 22 3.0%
Non-Hispanic 980 173 17.6% 29 3.0%
Family Income
In poverty 306 74 24.2% 17 5.7%
Above poverty 1,394 215 15.4% 34 2.4%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 260 133 51.0% 28 10.7%
Supplemental Security Income 36 35 97.6% 11 32.1%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 760 60 7.9% 4 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 61 11 18.2% 2 2.8%
Not in labor force 291 87 30.0% 21 7.2%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 193 70 36.5% 14 7.3%
Lives with others 1,514 220 14.5% 37 2.5%

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


About the New Mexico 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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