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State information > North Dakota Disability Statistics Table From 2002 American Community Survey

North Dakota Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 90,000 people in North Dakota have a disability, or 15.7% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 11,000 people, or 1.9% 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. Read more about these data.

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 North Dakota
(ages 5 and over)		 574 90 15.7% 11 1.9%
Disability Type          
Sensory   27   3 11.4%
Mobility   49   10 20.1%
Cognitive   22   5 21.2%
Self-care   11   11  
Leaving the home   23   7 32.1%
Work disability   41   7 18.2%
Gender          
Male 284 45 15.7% 4 1.6%
Female 289 45 15.6% 6 2.2%
Age          
Children (5-17) 110 5 4.6% 1 0.6%
    5-15 91 4 4.7% 1 0.6%
    16-17 19 1 4.1% 0 0.6%
Working Ages (18-64) 378 47 12.5% 5 1.3%
    18-44 230 20 8.9% 2 0.8%
    45-64 148 27 18.2% 3 2.2%
Elderly (65+) 86 37 43.7% 5 5.8%
    65-74 44 15 33.7% 2 5.0%
    75-84 32 14 45.3% 1 4.5%
    85+ 10 8 81.1% 1 13.3%
Race          
White 536 84 15.7% 10 1.9%
African American 6 1 19.9% 0 2.4%
Asian/Pacific Islander 5 1 12.4% 0 4.1%
American Indian/Alaska Native 29 4 15.2% 0 0.9%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 6 1 10.2% 0 0.0%
Non-Hispanic 567 89 15.7% 11 1.9%
Family Income          
In poverty 71 17 23.7% 3 3.6%
Above poverty 501 73 14.5% 8 1.6%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 97 43 44.5% 7 7.0%
Supplemental Security Income 9 8 95.3% 2 24.5%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 288 26 9.2% 2 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 13 1 11.1% 0 0.9%
Not in labor force 72 19 26.9% 3 4.5%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 80 27 33.5% 3 4.1%
Lives with others 494 63 12.8% 7 1.5%

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

About the North Dakota 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 sets from the 2002 American Community Survey (ACS), 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.

The 2002 ACS offers two significant advantages over disability estimates obtained from the 2000 Census. An obvious advantage is that the data are more recent. More importantly, major problems have been discovered in the responses to two of the six disability questions from the 2000 Census long form, due largely to the procedures for collecting data on households that failed to respond to the paper questionnaire. Although the ACS questionnaire features the same six disability items, the survey's procedures for handling survey non-response are different and do not appear to be affected by the same problems. We therefore believe that the ACS estimates of disability rates, though considerably lower than those from the 2000 Census, are far more reliable and should be strongly preferred over those obtained from the 2000 Census, especially for working-age adults.

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