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

Maryland Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 673,000 people in Maryland have a disability, or 13.4% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 122,000 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 Maryland
(ages 5 and over)		 5,013 673 13.4% 122 2.4%
Disability Type          
Sensory   182   36 19.6%
Mobility   402   111 27.6%
Cognitive   242   66 27.1%
Self-care   122   122  
Leaving the home   194   90 46.4%
Work disability   344   101 29.3%
Gender          
Male 2,400 309 12.9% 51 2.1%
Female 2,613 364 13.9% 71 2.7%
Age          
Children (5-17) 1,006 64 6.4% 10 1.0%
    5-15 860 52 6.0% 8 0.9%
    16-17 146 13 8.7% 3 1.7%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,413 357 10.5% 55 1.6%
    18-44 2,057 151 7.3% 24 1.2%
    45-64 1,356 206 15.2% 31 2.3%
Elderly (65+) 593 252 42.4% 57 9.6%
    65-74 316 97 30.8% 19 6.1%
    75-84 218 108 49.6% 23 10.8%
    85+ 60 46 77.4% 14 23.4%
Race          
White 3,297 455 13.8% 78 2.4%
African American 1,407 196 13.9% 40 2.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander 255 14 5.6% 3 1.0%
American Indian/Alaska Native 35 7 18.8% 1 3.8%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 234 23 9.7% 5 2.3%
Non-Hispanic 4,779 650 13.6% 117 2.4%
Family Income          
In poverty 402 113 28.1% 22 5.4%
Above poverty 4,596 558 12.1% 101 2.2%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 651 288 44.2% 61 9.4%
Supplemental Security Income 74 70 94.3% 19 24.9%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 2,560 150 5.8% 14 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 158 22 13.9% 2 1.1%
Not in labor force 672 184 27.4% 39 5.8%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 533 137 25.8% 27 5.1%
Lives with others 4,480 536 12.0% 95 2.1%

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

About the Maryland 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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