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Tennessee Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 1,043,000 people in Tennessee have a disability, or 19.8% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 176,000 people, or 3.3% 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 Tennessee
(ages 5 and over)		 5,277 1,043 19.8% 176 3.3%
Disability Type
Sensory   270   57 21.3%
Mobility   605   161 26.6%
Cognitive   353   106 29.9%
Self-care   176   176  
Leaving the home   352   137 38.9%
Work disability   556   133 24.0%
Gender
Male 2,547 476 18.7% 60 2.4%
Female 2,730 567 20.8% 116 4.2%
Age
Children (5-17) 1,015 83 8.2% 9 0.9%
5-15 867 68 7.8% 7 0.9%
16-17 148 15 10.5% 2 1.1%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,582 609 17.0% 86 2.4%
18-44 2,181 259 11.9% 30 1.4%
45-64 1,400 350 25.0% 56 4.0%
Elderly (65+) 681 351 51.6% 81 11.9%
65-74 384 157 40.8% 30 7.9%
75-84 237 147 62.4% 34 14.6%
85+ 60 47 77.6% 16 26.9%
Race
White 4,298 857 19.9% 139 3.2%
African American 861 175 20.4% 35 4.0%
Asian/Pacific Islander 70 5 7.5% 0 0.5%
American Indian/Alaska Native 41 13 31.8% 3 6.9%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 118 12 10.4% 2 1.9%
Non-Hispanic 5,160 1,031 20.0% 174 3.4%
Family Income
In poverty 722 244 33.7% 44 6.1%
Above poverty 4,539 795 17.5% 132 2.9%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 837 441 52.7% 102 12.2%
Supplemental Security Income 111 106 95.6% 30 27.0%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 2,548 254 10.0% 12 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 172 34 19.8% 1 0.8%
Not in labor force 847 320 37.7% 73 8.6%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 636 226 35.6% 40 6.4%
Lives with others 4,642 817 17.6% 136 2.9%

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


About the Tennessee 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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