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

Kansas Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 346,000 people in Kansas have a disability, or 14.1% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 59,000 people, or 2.4% 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 Kansas
(ages 5 and over)		 2,450 346 14.1% 59 2.4%
Disability Type          
Sensory   117   19 15.8%
Mobility   198   52 26.1%
Cognitive   110   29 25.8%
Self-care   59   59  
Leaving the home   89   42 47.4%
Work disability   183   51 27.7%
Gender          
Male 1,203 161 13.4% 22 1.8%
Female 1,247 184 14.8% 37 3.0%
Age          
Children (5-17) 493 27 5.4% 2 0.5%
    5-15 417 22 5.2% 2 0.5%
    16-17 76 5 6.6% <0.5 0.5%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,633 174 10.7% 29 1.8%
    18-44 1,008 71 7.0% 11 1.1%
    45-64 625 103 16.5% 18 2.8%
Elderly (65+) 324 145 44.6% 28 8.7%
    65-74 162 54 33.2% 10 6.3%
    75-84 120 59 49.5% 10 8.4%
    85+ 42 32 74.9% 8 18.2%
Race          
White 2,181 309 14.2% 50 2.3%
African American 151 27 17.7% 6 4.2%
Asian/Pacific Islander 78 5 5.8% <0.5 0.1%
American Indian/Alaska Native 53 14 26.7% 3 6.6%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 154 15 9.7% 2 1.2%
Non-Hispanic 2,296 331 14.4% 57 2.5%
Family Income          
In poverty 250 58 23.1% 14 5.7%
Above poverty 2,196 287 13.1% 45 2.0%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 390 184 47.1% 36 9.3%
Supplemental Security Income 29 29 98.1% 9 29.9%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 1,241 73 5.9% 4 0.3%
Unemployed (in labor force) 78 12 15.3% 1 1.9%
Not in labor force 306 89 29.0% 24 7.7%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 303 93 30.7% 17 5.5%
Lives with others 2,147 252 11.8% 42 2.0%

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

About the Kansas 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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