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

Georgia Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 1,111,000 people in Georgia have a disability, or 14.3% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 201,000 people, or 2.6% 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 Georgia
(ages 5 and over)		 7,780 1,111 14.3% 201 2.6%
Disability Type          
Sensory   306   54 17.5%
Mobility   685   178 26.0%
Cognitive   384   106 27.5%
Self-care   201   201  
Leaving the home   300   148 49.2%
Work disability   659   173 26.2%
Gender          
Male 3,802 508 13.4% 83 2.2%
Female 3,978 603 15.2% 118 3.0%
Age          
Children (5-17) 1,625 85 5.2% 9 0.6%
    5-15 1,395 71 5.1% 9 0.6%
    16-17 230 14 6.0% 1 0.3%
Working Ages (18-64) 5,381 631 11.7% 105 2.0%
    18-44 3,470 242 7.0% 34 1.0%
    45-64 1,911 389 20.3% 72 3.7%
Elderly (65+) 775 396 51.1% 86 11.2%
    65-74 446 181 40.5% 29 6.6%
    75-84 252 154 60.9% 34 13.4%
    85+ 76 61 80.0% 23 30.5%
Race          
White 5,250 782 14.9% 138 2.6%
African American 2,148 304 14.2% 58 2.7%
Asian/Pacific Islander 221 15 6.8% 3 1.5%
American Indian/Alaska Native 49 18 35.8% 4 7.9%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 460 20 4.4% 4 0.8%
Non-Hispanic 7,321 1,091 14.9% 197 2.7%
Family Income          
In poverty 993 253 25.5% 50 5.0%
Above poverty 6,765 856 12.7% 151 2.2%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 978 521 53.3% 114 11.7%
Supplemental Security Income 138 130 94.4% 34 24.9%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 3,849 221 5.7% 16 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 299 37 12.4% 2 0.8%
Not in labor force 1,203 372 30.9% 87 7.3%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 867 230 26.5% 42 4.8%
Lives with others 6,913 881 12.7% 159 2.3%

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

About the Georgia 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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