Pennsylvania Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 1,851,000 people in Pennsylvania have a disability, or 16.5% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 342,000 people, or 3.0% 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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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.

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 Pennsylvania (ages 5 and over)	11,227	1,851	16.5%	342	3.0%
Disability Type
Sensory		507		97	19.2%
Mobility		1,106		305	27.6%
Cognitive		640		172	26.9%
Self-care		342		342
Leaving the home		518		246	47.4%
Work disability		1,042		279	26.8%
Gender
Male	5,401	852	15.8%	145	2.7%
Female	5,826	999	17.1%	198	3.4%
Age
Children (5-17)	2,058	155	7.6%	22	1.1%
5-15	1,710	130	7.6%	19	1.1%
16-17	348	25	7.2%	3	0.9%
Working Ages (18-64)	7,415	934	12.6%	162	2.2%
18-44	4,174	368	8.8%	54	1.3%
45-64	3,241	565	17.4%	108	3.3%
Elderly (65+)	1,754	762	43.4%	158	9.0%
65-74	833	251	30.1%	42	5.1%
75-84	702	350	49.9%	68	9.7%
85+	219	160	73.1%	48	21.7%
Race
White	9,650	1569	16.3%	281	2.9%
African American	1,127	225	20.0%	50	4.5%
Asian/Pacific Islander	289	25	8.7%	4	1.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native	47	14	29.9%	3	5.4%
Ethnicity
Hispanic	435	75	17.2%	14	3.3%
Non-Hispanic	10,792	1,776	16.5%	328	3.0%
Family Income
In poverty	1,310	387	29.5%	83	6.3%
Above poverty	9,879	1,459	14.8%	259	2.6%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI)	2,035	918	45.1%	199	9.8%
Supplemental Security Income	241	230	95.6%	60	24.8%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed	5,355	337	6.3%	26	0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force)	360	54	15.2%	5	1.3%
Not in labor force	1,691	542	32.0%	131	7.7%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone	1,423	459	32.2%	79	5.6%
Lives with others	9,804	1,392	14.2%	263	2.7%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2005 American Community Survey (ACS).

About the Pennsylvania 2005 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 2005, 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.

Current & previous years of disability data from the ACS:

• Pennsylvania Disability Data From 2005 American Community Survey
• Pennsylvania Disability Data From 2004 American Community Survey
• Pennsylvania Disability Data From 2003 American Community Survey
• Pennsylvania Disability Data From 2002 American Community Survey