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Wisconsin Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 698,000 people in Wisconsin have a disability, or 14.0% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 119,000 people, or 2.4% 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 Wisconsin
(ages 5 and over)		 4,975 698 14.0% 119 2.4%
Disability Type
Sensory   195   32 16.5%
Mobility   407   105 25.7%
Cognitive   240   54 22.7%
Self-care   119   119  
Leaving the home   177   81 46.0%
Work disability   374   100 26.7%
Gender
Male 2,449 337 13.8% 54 2.2%
Female 2,526 361 14.3% 64 2.5%
Age
Children (5-17) 985 64 6.5% 6 0.6%
5-15 825 56 6.8% 5 0.7%
16-17 160 8 5.0% 1 0.5%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,326 366 11.0% 58 1.7%
18-44 2,015 161 8.0% 23 1.1%
45-64 1,311 205 15.6% 35 2.7%
Elderly (65+) 664 269 40.5% 54 8.2%
65-74 344 101 29.3% 17 5.1%
75-84 246 117 47.5% 21 8.7%
85+ 74 51 68.8% 16 21.1%
Race
White 4,484 623 13.9% 106 2.4%
African American 298 54 18.1% 8 2.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander 106 10 9.5% 1 1.1%
American Indian/Alaska Native 62 15 23.6% 2 3.5%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 185 17 9.2% 2 1.2%
Non-Hispanic 4,790 681 14.2% 116 2.4%
Family Income
In poverty 496 125 25.3% 22 4.5%
Above poverty 4,457 570 12.8% 96 2.1%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 784 327 41.8% 68 8.7%
Supplemental Security Income 84 82 96.8% 20 23.1%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 2,541 161 6.3% 13 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 180 28 15.8% 5 2.7%
Not in labor force 602 176 29.1% 40 6.7%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 620 185 29.9% 33 5.2%
Lives with others 4,355 513 11.8% 86 2.0%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2003 American Community Survey (ACS).


About the Wisconsin 2003 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 2003, 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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