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Ohio Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 1,689,000 people in Ohio have a disability, or 16.3% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 290,000 people, or 2.8% 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 Ohio
(ages 5 and over)		 10,390 1,689 16.3% 290 2.8%
Disability Type
Sensory   446   85 19.0%
Mobility   1,008   256 25.4%
Cognitive   615   153 24.8%
Self-care   290   290  
Leaving the home   444   203 45.7%
Work disability   929   235 25.3%
Gender
Male 5,023 792 15.8% 123 2.5%
Female 5,367 897 16.7% 167 3.1%
Age
Children (5-17) 2,076 171 8.2% 21 1.0%
5-15 1,757 141 8.0% 17 1.0%
16-17 320 30 9.4% 3 1.1%
Working Ages (18-64) 6,894 896 13.0% 142 2.1%
18-44 4,116 361 8.8% 48 1.2%
45-64 2,778 535 19.2% 94 3.4%
Elderly (65+) 1,419 622 43.8% 127 9.0%
65-74 739 231 31.2% 35 4.7%
75-84 532 281 52.9% 62 11.7%
85+ 148 110 73.9% 31 20.7%
Race
White 8,968 1441 16.1% 240 2.7%
African American 1,217 228 18.8% 47 3.9%
Asian/Pacific Islander 170 11 6.5% 4 2.3%
American Indian/Alaska Native 74 24 32.7% 3 4.6%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 204 26 12.7% 4 1.9%
Non-Hispanic 10,186 1,663 16.3% 286 2.8%
Family Income
In poverty 1,197 342 28.6% 66 5.5%
Above poverty 9,159 1,341 14.6% 223 2.4%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 1,644 757 46.1% 157 9.6%
Supplemental Security Income 186 176 95.0% 47 25.2%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 4,963 337 6.8% 32 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 413 63 15.2% 2 0.6%
Not in labor force 1,510 496 32.9% 108 7.1%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 1,322 410 31.1% 74 5.6%
Lives with others 9,068 1,278 14.1% 217 2.4%

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


About the Ohio 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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