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Illinois Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 1,630,000 people in Illinois have a disability, or 14.3% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 274,000 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 Illinois
(ages 5 and over)		 11,401 1,630 14.3% 274 2.4%
Disability Type
Sensory   410   85 20.6%
Mobility   881   241 27.4%
Cognitive   486   149 30.7%
Self-care   274   274  
Leaving the home   562   199 35.4%
Work disability   824   192 23.2%
Gender
Male 5,546 761 13.7% 99 1.8%
Female 5,855 869 14.8% 176 3.0%
Age
Children (5-17) 2,354 150 6.4% 21 0.9%
5-15 2,006 116 5.8% 18 0.9%
16-17 347 34 9.8% 3 0.9%
Working Ages (18-64) 7,649 855 11.2% 117 1.5%
18-44 4,819 362 7.5% 38 0.8%
45-64 2,830 494 17.4% 79 2.8%
Elderly (65+) 1,398 624 44.7% 136 9.7%
65-74 730 245 33.5% 43 5.9%
75-84 516 268 51.9% 56 10.8%
85+ 152 111 73.5% 36 24.1%
Race
White 8,740 1224 14.0% 197 2.3%
African American 1,696 307 18.1% 63 3.7%
Asian/Pacific Islander 478 51 10.7% 6 1.3%
American Indian/Alaska Native 74 22 29.8% 3 4.2%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 1,484 155 10.4% 24 1.6%
Non-Hispanic 9,917 1,476 14.9% 250 2.5%
Family Income
In poverty 1,274 279 21.9% 61 4.8%
Above poverty 10,094 1,348 13.4% 212 2.1%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 1,510 675 44.7% 152 10.1%
Supplemental Security Income 167 155 93.3% 41 24.4%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 5,529 405 7.3% 21 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 511 66 12.9% 5 1.0%
Not in labor force 1,598 384 24.0% 91 5.7%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 1,347 373 27.7% 67 5.0%
Lives with others 10,054 1,257 12.5% 207 2.1%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2002 American Community Survey (ACS).


About the Illinois 2002 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 2002, 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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