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

Vermont Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 90,000 people in Vermont have a disability, or 15.9% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 14,000 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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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 Vermont
(ages 5 and over)		 567 90 15.9% 14 2.5%
Disability Type          
Sensory   26   4 15.4%
Mobility   53   13 24.3%
Cognitive   33   8 24.2%
Self-care   14   14  
Leaving the home   21   10 46.2%
Work disability   48   12 25.3%
Gender          
Male 279 44 15.8% 6 2.2%
Female 289 46 16.0% 8 2.8%
Age          
Children (5-17) 105 7 6.6% 1 0.9%
    5-15 87 5 6.3% 1 0.7%
    16-17 18 1 8.0% <0.5 2.0%
Working Ages (18-64) 386 51 13.3% 8 1.9%
    18-44 216 21 9.9% 3 1.3%
    45-64 170 30 17.5% 5 2.7%
Elderly (65+) 76 32 42.1% 6 7.6%
    65-74 41 14 34.4% 2 4.9%
    75-84 25 11 44.3% 2 6.8%
    85+ 10 7 69.1% 2 21.8%
Race          
White 555 88 15.8% 14 2.5%
African American 4 1 23.6% <0.5 3.9%
Asian/Pacific Islander 6 1 9.6% <0.5 1.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 8 2 29.2% <0.5 5.0%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 4 1 19.5% <0.5 <0.05%
Non-Hispanic 563 89 15.9% 14 2.5%
Family Income          
In poverty 52 17 32.9% 3 5.5%
Above poverty 512 72 14.1% 11 2.2%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 93 42 44.8% 8 9.1%
Supplemental Security Income 12 12 98.9% 3 23.2%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 301 24 7.9% 2 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 16 2 15.1% <0.5 0.5%
Not in labor force 69 25 36.5% 6 8.4%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 70 22 31.1% 3 4.6%
Lives with others 498 69 13.8% 11 2.2%

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

About the Vermont 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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