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State information > West Virginia Disability Statistics Table From 2003 American Community Survey

West Virginia Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 395,000 people in West Virginia have a disability, or 23.7% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 71,000 people, or 4.3% 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 West Virginia
(ages 5 and over)		 1,665 395 23.7% 71 4.3%
Disability Type          
Sensory   122   27 22.6%
Mobility   267   65 24.5%
Cognitive   129   40 31.1%
Self-care   71   71  
Leaving the home   112   55 48.6%
Work disability   248   63 25.5%
Gender          
Male 808 193 23.9% 32 3.9%
Female 857 201 23.5% 40 4.6%
Age          
Children (5-17) 286 22 7.7% 3 1.0%
    5-15 238 17 7.3% 2 1.0%
    16-17 48 5 9.9% 1 1.1%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,114 230 20.6% 38 3.4%
    18-44 630 77 12.2% 12 1.9%
    45-64 484 153 31.6% 26 5.4%
Elderly (65+) 264 143 54.0% 31 11.6%
    65-74 143 64 44.9% 10 6.8%
    75-84 94 57 59.9% 12 12.3%
    85+ 27 22 82.3% 9 34.9%
Race          
White 1,603 382 23.9% 68 4.3%
African American 55 12 21.6% 2 3.7%
Asian/Pacific Islander 11 1 7.7% <0.5 2.5%
American Indian/Alaska Native 8 4 45.0% 1 6.4%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 12 3 23.2% 1 4.8%
Non-Hispanic 1,653 392 23.7% 71 4.3%
Family Income          
In poverty 301 98 32.4% 19 6.2%
Above poverty 1,361 297 21.8% 53 3.9%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 353 205 58.1% 41 11.7%
Supplemental Security Income 55 55 98.7% 14 24.9%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 690 58 8.3% 5 0.7%
Unemployed (in labor force) 64 9 14.0% 1 1.3%
Not in labor force 359 163 45.5% 32 9.0%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 216 92 42.9% 20 9.2%
Lives with others 1,449 302 20.8% 51 3.6%

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

About the West Virginia 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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