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Delaware Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 109,000 people in Delaware have a disability, or 14.8% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 18,000 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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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 Delaware
(ages 5 and over)		 738 109 14.8% 18 2.4%
Disability Type
Sensory   27   6 20.4%
Mobility   66   16 23.4%
Cognitive   38   10 25.1%
Self-care   18   18  
Leaving the home   26   13 49.1%
Work disability   55   14 25.7%
Gender
Male 357 50 13.9% 8 2.2%
Female 382 59 15.6% 10 2.6%
Age
Children (5-17) 144 9 6.4% 1 0.7%
5-15 121 8 6.6% 1 0.8%
16-17 23 1 5.1% <0.5 <0.05%
Working Ages (18-64) 492 57 11.5% 7 1.5%
18-44 299 25 8.2% 3 0.9%
45-64 193 32 16.6% 5 2.5%
Elderly (65+) 102 43 42.2% 9 9.0%
65-74 56 18 32.6% 3 4.8%
75-84 36 17 48.0% 4 10.8%
85+ 10 7 75.1% 3 26.3%
Race
White 569 87 15.3% 14 2.5%
African American 141 20 14.1% 3 2.3%
Asian/Pacific Islander 21 1 6.3% <0.5 1.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 5 1 21.9% <0.5 4.5%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 37 4 11.1% 1 1.6%
Non-Hispanic 701 105 15.0% 17 2.4%
Family Income
In poverty 61 15 25.0% 3 4.5%
Above poverty 676 93 13.8% 15 2.2%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 122 53 43.8% 11 9.2%
Supplemental Security Income 10 9 92.9% 2 18.9%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 367 25 6.7% 2 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 23 4 17.0% <0.5 1.6%
Not in labor force 100 28 27.9% 5 5.4%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 87 24 27.6% 3 3.7%
Lives with others 651 85 13.0% 15 2.2%

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


About the Delaware 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.


Current & previous years of disability data from the ACS:

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