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

Washington Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 832,000 people in Washington have a disability, or 14.9% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 141,000 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 Washington
(ages 5 and over)		 5,595 832 14.9% 141 2.5%
Disability Type          
Sensory   242   46 18.9%
Mobility   482   125 25.9%
Cognitive   305   77 25.1%
Self-care   141   141  
Leaving the home   209   102 48.7%
Work disability   423   114 27.0%
Gender          
Male 2,767 406 14.7% 63 2.3%
Female 2,828 426 15.1% 79 2.8%
Age          
Children (5-17) 1,093 69 6.3% 12 1.1%
    5-15 922 60 6.5% 9 1.0%
    16-17 171 9 5.1% 3 1.5%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,844 481 12.5% 70 1.8%
    18-44 2,340 215 9.2% 28 1.2%
    45-64 1,504 266 17.7% 43 2.8%
Elderly (65+) 658 282 42.9% 59 9.0%
    65-74 336 105 31.2% 19 5.7%
    75-84 245 122 49.7% 26 10.7%
    85+ 77 55 72.2% 14 17.9%
Race          
White 4,760 736 15.5% 122 2.6%
African American 219 28 12.9% 7 3.2%
Asian/Pacific Islander 449 41 9.1% 7 1.5%
American Indian/Alaska Native 145 31 21.6% 6 3.9%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 426 41 9.6% 6 1.5%
Non-Hispanic 5,169 791 15.3% 135 2.6%
Family Income          
In poverty 590 147 24.9% 32 5.4%
Above poverty 4,986 682 13.7% 109 2.2%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 751 338 45.1% 71 9.4%
Supplemental Security Income 95 91 95.6% 28 29.9%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 2,726 192 7.1% 17 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 273 50 18.4% 3 1.0%
Not in labor force 816 237 29.0% 51 6.3%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 696 191 27.5% 38 5.4%
Lives with others 4,899 640 13.1% 104 2.1%

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

About the Washington 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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