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State information > Nebraska Disability Statistics Table From 2003 American Community Survey

Nebraska Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 233,000 people in Nebraska have a disability, or 14.9% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 35,000 people, or 2.2% 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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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 Nebraska
(ages 5 and over)		 1,569 233 14.9% 35 2.2%
Disability Type          
Sensory   70   10 14.4%
Mobility   140   33 23.5%
Cognitive   75   15 20.6%
Self-care   35   35  
Leaving the home   54   23 42.6%
Work disability   122   28 23.0%
Gender          
Male 775 119 15.3% 15 2.0%
Female 793 114 14.4% 20 2.5%
Age          
Children (5-17) 319 20 6.2% 3 0.8%
    5-15 268 17 6.3% 2 0.7%
    16-17 51 3 5.7% 1 1.5%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,038 126 12.2% 18 1.7%
    18-44 627 54 8.6% 7 1.1%
    45-64 411 72 17.6% 11 2.7%
Elderly (65+) 212 87 41.1% 15 6.9%
    65-74 111 33 30.0% 4 4.0%
    75-84 75 35 46.4% 6 8.6%
    85+ 26 19 73.1% 4 14.3%
Race          
White 1,415 204 14.4% 30 2.1%
African American 73 20 26.8% 2 3.4%
Asian/Pacific Islander 29 3 10.4% <0.5 1.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 22 6 25.7% 2 11.1%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 94 10 10.5% 2 1.9%
Non-Hispanic 1,475 223 15.1% 33 2.3%
Family Income          
In poverty 164 49 30.0% 9 5.5%
Above poverty 1,401 183 13.1% 26 1.9%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 258 113 43.9% 21 8.0%
Supplemental Security Income 21 20 96.4% 5 24.4%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 817 60 7.3% 5 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 43 10 23.1% 1 2.2%
Not in labor force 174 56 32.4% 12 6.8%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 202 67 33.3% 11 5.5%
Lives with others 1,367 166 12.1% 24 1.8%

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

About the Nebraska 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.

These statistics from the 2003 ACS are both more current and more valid than estimates obtained from either the 2000 Census or previous years of the ACS. Problems discovered in two of the six disability questions, leading to a substantial overestimate of the disability population in the 2000 Census, have been fixed in the 2003 ACS questionnaire. These problems also affected prior years of the ACS, but to a lesser extent than the 2000 Census, due to different data collection procedures.

Previous years of disability data from the ACS:

 

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