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Oregon Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 569,000 people in Oregon have a disability, or 17.7% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 87,000 people, or 2.7% 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 Oregon
(ages 5 and over)		 3,210 569 17.7% 87 2.7%
Disability Type
Sensory   161   29 18.3%
Mobility   305   78 25.6%
Cognitive   189   50 26.4%
Self-care   87   87  
Leaving the home   151   61 40.3%
Work disability   273   57 21.0%
Gender
Male 1,586 281 17.7% 41 2.6%
Female 1,624 288 17.7% 46 2.8%
Age
Children (5-17) 627 45 7.1% 6 1.0%
5-15 534 38 7.1% 6 1.2%
16-17 93 7 7.2% 0 0.2%
Working Ages (18-64) 2,163 329 15.2% 42 1.9%
18-44 1,288 150 11.7% 16 1.2%
45-64 875 178 20.4% 26 3.0%
Elderly (65+) 420 196 46.7% 39 9.2%
65-74 211 70 33.2% 10 4.9%
75-84 155 82 52.7% 14 9.0%
85+ 54 44 82.3% 14 26.8%
Race
White 2,893 520 18.0% 77 2.7%
African American 72 11 15.5% 0 0.0%
Asian/Pacific Islander 125 15 12.1% 2 1.7%
American Indian/Alaska Native 86 23 26.4% 6 6.6%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 269 39 14.4% 8 2.9%
Non-Hispanic 2,941 530 18.0% 79 2.7%
Family Income
In poverty 398 105 26.5% 18 4.4%
Above poverty 2,805 462 16.5% 69 2.5%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 494 239 48.3% 46 9.4%
Supplemental Security Income 52 47 91.8% 12 22.8%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 1,545 149 9.6% 8 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 142 25 17.9% 3 2.0%
Not in labor force 473 154 32.7% 31 6.6%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 399 124 31.0% 22 5.5%
Lives with others 2,811 445 15.8% 65 2.3%

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


About the Oregon 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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