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South Carolina Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 643,000 people in South Carolina have a disability, or 17.3% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 103,000 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 South Carolina
(ages 5 and over)		 3,708 643 17.3% 103 2.8%
Disability Type
Sensory   169   31 18.5%
Mobility   353   92 26.0%
Cognitive   204   55 27.1%
Self-care   103   103  
Leaving the home   210   77 36.7%
Work disability   327   78 23.7%
Gender
Male 1,775 293 16.5% 44 2.5%
Female 1,933 349 18.1% 60 3.1%
Age
Children (5-17) 708 52 7.3% 6 0.8%
5-15 601 43 7.2% 3 0.6%
16-17 108 8 7.5% 2 1.9%
Working Ages (18-64) 2,534 374 14.7% 51 2.0%
18-44 1,538 154 10.0% 18 1.2%
45-64 996 219 22.0% 33 3.3%
Elderly (65+) 466 217 46.7% 47 10.0%
65-74 268 101 37.9% 18 6.6%
75-84 161 85 52.7% 18 10.9%
85+ 37 31 84.1% 11 30.5%
Race
White 2,534 452 17.8% 68 2.7%
African American 1,096 182 16.6% 35 3.2%
Asian/Pacific Islander 43 4 8.5% 0 0.4%
American Indian/Alaska Native 29 6 22.1% 1 4.1%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 93 8 8.9% 1 0.7%
Non-Hispanic 3,615 634 17.5% 103 2.8%
Family Income
In poverty 511 128 25.1% 23 4.6%
Above poverty 3,181 513 16.1% 80 2.5%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 568 281 49.5% 62 10.9%
Supplemental Security Income 62 59 95.4% 13 21.9%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 1,785 148 8.3% 7 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 147 23 15.4% 2 1.6%
Not in labor force 581 201 34.6% 42 7.2%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 421 132 31.3% 19 4.6%
Lives with others 3,287 511 15.5% 84 2.6%

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


About the South Carolina 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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