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Georgia Statistics

Georgia Disability Statistics.

Size and characteristics of the PAS workforce in Georgia.

Wages for Personal & Home Care Aides in Georgia.

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Georgia Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 1,204,000 people in Georgia have a disability, or 14.8% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 230,000 people, or 2.8% 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 Georgia
(ages 5 and over)		 8,120 1,204 14.8% 230 2.8%
Disability Type
Sensory   334   74 22.0%
Mobility   737   202 27.5%
Cognitive   430   130 30.3%
Self-care   230   230  
Leaving the home   343   173 50.4%
Work disability   692   193 27.9%
Gender
Male 3,973 549 13.8% 88 2.2%
Female 4,147 655 15.8% 142 3.4%
Age
Children (5-17) 1,651 95 5.7% 13 0.8%
5-15 1,407 79 5.6% 11 0.8%
16-17 244 16 6.7% 2 0.7%
Working Ages (18-64) 5,653 707 12.5% 129 2.3%
18-44 3,581 282 7.9% 40 1.1%
45-64 2,072 426 20.6% 89 4.3%
Elderly (65+) 815 401 49.2% 88 10.8%
65-74 485 188 38.8% 31 6.3%
75-84 253 150 59.1% 34 13.6%
85+ 77 63 82.2% 23 29.6%
Race
White 5,220 807 15.5% 147 2.8%
African American 2,386 365 15.3% 78 3.3%
Asian/Pacific Islander 249 16 6.5% 2 0.9%
American Indian/Alaska Native 55 16 29.6% 3 5.7%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 537 33 6.2% 5 0.9%
Non-Hispanic 7,583 1,170 15.4% 225 3.0%
Family Income
In poverty 1,134 283 25.0% 59 5.2%
Above poverty 6,966 918 13.2% 171 2.5%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 1,025 534 52.1% 126 12.3%
Supplemental Security Income 140 132 94.2% 35 24.8%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 4,012 256 6.4% 23 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 299 42 14.1% 5 1.5%
Not in labor force 1,313 408 31.1% 101 7.7%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 879 256 29.1% 42 4.8%
Lives with others 7,241 948 13.1% 188 2.6%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2005 American Community Survey (ACS).


About the Georgia 2005 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 2005, 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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