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Washington Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 919,000 people in Washington have a disability, or 16.6% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 139,000 people, or 2.5% 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 Washington
(ages 5 and over)		 5,540 919 16.6% 139 2.5%
Disability Type
Sensory   264   47 17.9%
Mobility   490   120 24.5%
Cognitive   303   79 26.1%
Self-care   139   139  
Leaving the home   250   98 39.0%
Work disability   408   93 22.9%
Gender
Male 2,745 466 17.0% 59 2.2%
Female 2,795 453 16.2% 80 2.9%
Age
Children (5-17) 1,113 90 8.1% 12 1.1%
5-15 942 73 7.8% 10 1.1%
16-17 171 17 9.7% 2 1.0%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,784 528 14.0% 70 1.8%
18-44 2,330 239 10.2% 25 1.1%
45-64 1,454 290 19.9% 45 3.1%
Elderly (65+) 642 301 46.8% 57 8.9%
65-74 337 124 36.7% 22 6.4%
75-84 231 120 51.7% 21 8.9%
85+ 74 57 77.3% 15 20.4%
Race
White 4,700 798 17.0% 120 2.5%
African American 219 44 19.9% 6 2.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander 413 54 13.0% 9 2.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 144 37 25.4% 6 4.0%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 424 46 10.9% 7 1.6%
Non-Hispanic 5,116 873 17.1% 133 2.6%
Family Income
In poverty 615 159 25.8% 32 5.1%
Above poverty 4,906 757 15.4% 108 2.2%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 752 367 48.8% 79 10.5%
Supplemental Security Income 77 70 90.9% 23 30.0%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 2,695 253 9.4% 15 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 254 43 16.9% 3 1.3%
Not in labor force 805 230 28.6% 51 6.3%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 673 218 32.3% 38 5.6%
Lives with others 4,867 701 14.4% 102 2.1%

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


About the Washington 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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