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Pennsylvania Disability Data Table From the 2004 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2004

An estimated 1,867,000 people in Pennsylvania have a disability, or 16.6% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 331,000 people, or 2.9% 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)		 11,253 1,867 16.6% 331 2.9%
Disability Type
Sensory   462   90 19.5%
Mobility   1,113   299 26.9%
Cognitive   644   162 25.2%
Self-care   331   331  
Leaving the home   534   244 45.6%
Work disability   1,081   278 25.7%
Gender
Male 5,415 839 15.5% 135 2.5%
Female 5,838 1,028 17.6% 197 3.4%
Age
Children (5-17) 2,110 155 7.3% 17 0.8%
5-15 1,775 132 7.4% 14 0.8%
16-17 334 23 6.9% 3 0.9%
Working Ages (18-64) 7,381 948 12.8% 165 2.2%
18-44 4,221 382 9.0% 54 1.3%
45-64 3,160 566 17.9% 110 3.5%
Elderly (65+) 1,763 765 43.4% 150 8.5%
65-74 844 254 30.1% 39 4.6%
75-84 691 345 50.0% 61 8.8%
85+ 227 165 72.7% 50 21.9%
Race
White 9,692 1585 16.4% 281 2.9%
African American 1,163 243 20.9% 45 3.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander 253 17 6.6% 2 0.8%
American Indian/Alaska Native 47 17 37.0% 5 10.3%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 408 73 18.0% 11 2.6%
Non-Hispanic 10,846 1,794 16.5% 321 3.0%
Family Income
In poverty 1,263 369 29.2% 73 5.8%
Above poverty 9,960 1,495 15.0% 258 2.6%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 2,032 919 45.2% 199 9.8%
Supplemental Security Income 251 237 94.6% 53 20.9%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 5,302 333 6.3% 28 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 366 55 15.1% 6 1.5%
Not in labor force 1,703 559 32.8% 131 7.7%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 1,380 451 32.7% 79 5.7%
Lives with others 9,873 1,416 14.3% 253 2.6%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2004 American Community Survey (ACS).


About the Pennsylvania 2004 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 2004, 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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