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Iowa Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 462,000 people in Iowa have a disability, or 17.4% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 62,000 people, or 2.3% 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 Iowa
(ages 5 and over)		 2,656 462 17.4% 62 2.3%
Disability Type
Sensory   122   16 13.4%
Mobility   244   54 22.4%
Cognitive   128   24 19.1%
Self-care   62   62  
Leaving the home   132   45 33.8%
Work disability   229   43 18.7%
Gender
Male 1,299 227 17.4% 25 1.9%
Female 1,357 236 17.4% 37 2.7%
Age
Children (5-17) 510 34 6.6% 3 0.6%
5-15 426 27 6.3% 3 0.6%
16-17 85 7 8.1% 0 0.2%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,748 241 13.8% 26 1.5%
18-44 1,046 102 9.7% 8 0.7%
45-64 701 140 19.9% 19 2.7%
Elderly (65+) 398 187 47.1% 32 8.1%
65-74 197 70 35.6% 10 5.0%
75-84 152 81 52.8% 13 8.7%
85+ 49 37 75.5% 9 18.7%
Race
White 2,520 438 17.4% 58 2.3%
African American 64 15 23.0% 2 3.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander 42 6 13.9% 1 2.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 18 6 30.2% 1 3.4%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 77 12 16.2% 2 2.5%
Non-Hispanic 2,579 450 17.4% 60 2.3%
Family Income
In poverty 290 76 26.3% 11 3.7%
Above poverty 2,357 385 16.3% 50 2.1%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 469 220 46.9% 38 8.0%
Supplemental Security Income 43 41 95.0% 10 23.5%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 1,359 121 8.9% 4 0.3%
Unemployed (in labor force) 79 14 17.6% 1 1.3%
Not in labor force 307 106 34.5% 22 7.0%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 324 112 34.6% 17 5.2%
Lives with others 2,332 350 15.0% 45 1.9%

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


About the Iowa 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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