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Pennsylvania Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 1,914,000 people in Pennsylvania have a disability, or 17.1% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 298,000 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 Pennsylvania
(ages 5 and over)		 11,204 1,914 17.1% 298 2.7%
Disability Type
Sensory   479   77 16.0%
Mobility   1,028   258 25.1%
Cognitive   579   143 24.7%
Self-care   298   298  
Leaving the home   599   220 36.7%
Work disability   966   209 21.7%
Gender
Male 5,368 883 16.5% 121 2.3%
Female 5,836 1,031 17.7% 176 3.0%
Age
Children (5-17) 2,141 151 7.1% 17 0.8%
5-15 1,795 119 6.6% 16 0.9%
16-17 346 32 9.3% 1 0.4%
Working Ages (18-64) 7,292 984 13.5% 137 1.9%
18-44 4,305 407 9.5% 43 1.0%
45-64 2,987 577 19.3% 94 3.2%
Elderly (65+) 1,772 780 44.0% 143 8.1%
65-74 902 298 33.0% 40 4.5%
75-84 675 340 50.4% 66 9.8%
85+ 194 142 73.0% 37 18.9%
Race
White 9,726 1629 16.7% 241 2.5%
African American 1,133 232 20.5% 48 4.2%
Asian/Pacific Islander 245 26 10.7% 3 1.4%
American Indian/Alaska Native 49 16 32.1% 1 2.5%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 348 70 20.2% 9 2.6%
Non-Hispanic 10,856 1,844 17.0% 288 2.7%
Family Income
In poverty 1,134 343 30.2% 55 4.8%
Above poverty 10,018 1,562 15.6% 241 2.4%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 2,002 898 44.9% 173 8.7%
Supplemental Security Income 239 227 95.2% 51 21.5%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 5,292 419 7.9% 23 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 384 53 13.7% 6 1.7%
Not in labor force 1,608 511 31.8% 108 6.7%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 1,393 472 33.9% 73 5.2%
Lives with others 9,811 1,442 14.7% 225 2.3%

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


About the Pennsylvania 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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