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Index of West Virginia Pages.

West Virginia Statistics

West Virginia Disability Statistics.

Size and characteristics of the PAS workforce in West Virginia.

Wages for Personal & Home Care Aides in West Virginia.

State Program Data

Medicaid Waiver Data in West Virginia.

West Virginia Medicaid HCBS Data.

Federal HCBS Funding to West Virginia.

State Only Funded HCBS in West Virginia.

State Waiver Demo Information.

West Virginia Legal Information

West Virginia Olmstead Plans and Lawsuits.

West Virginia PAS Projects

Research/Demo Projects to Improve PAS Workforce.

West Virginia Resources

Contact Info and Descriptions for all West Virginia Medicaid Waivers.

West Virginia Agencies Related to PAS.

West Virginia resources for employment of persons with disabilities.

West Virginia Library

PAS Reports and Publications related to West Virginia.

West Virginia PAS Workforce Library.

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PAS Web Links Related to West Virginia.

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West Virginia Disability Data Table From the 2004 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2004

An estimated 410,000 people in West Virginia have a disability, or 24.5% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 76,000 people, or 4.5% 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.

Read more about these data.

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 West Virginia
(ages 5 and over)		 1,673 410 24.5% 76 4.5%
Disability Type
Sensory   129   28 21.4%
Mobility   276   70 25.3%
Cognitive   140   43 30.8%
Self-care   76   76  
Leaving the home   126   63 50.1%
Work disability   276   68 24.7%
Gender
Male 811 193 23.8% 31 3.8%
Female 862 216 25.1% 45 5.3%
Age
Children (5-17) 286 24 8.3% 1 0.5%
5-15 236 19 8.1% 1 0.4%
16-17 50 4 9.0% 0 1.0%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,123 234 20.9% 43 3.9%
18-44 623 80 12.9% 13 2.0%
45-64 500 154 30.8% 31 6.2%
Elderly (65+) 264 152 57.4% 31 11.8%
65-74 144 66 46.1% 13 8.7%
75-84 91 61 66.7% 11 12.3%
85+ 29 25 84.8% 7 25.5%
Race
White 1,606 395 24.6% 73 4.5%
African American 61 15 24.4% 3 4.2%
Asian/Pacific Islander 10 0 4.7% 0 0.4%
American Indian/Alaska Native 11 5 48.8% 1 7.8%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 10 2 15.7% 0 2.8%
Non-Hispanic 1,663 408 24.5% 76 4.5%
Family Income
In poverty 292 117 39.9% 23 7.9%
Above poverty 1,377 293 21.3% 52 3.8%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 362 217 60.0% 47 12.9%
Supplemental Security Income 68 67 98.1% 16 23.4%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 711 56 7.8% 6 0.8%
Unemployed (in labor force) 50 11 22.1% 1 2.9%
Not in labor force 360 167 46.5% 36 10.1%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 214 101 47.1% 20 9.5%
Lives with others 1,459 309 21.2% 56 3.8%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2004 American Community Survey (ACS).


About the West Virginia 2004 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 2004, 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:

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