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Kentucky Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 841,000 people in Kentucky have a disability, or 22.6% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 141,000 people, or 3.8% 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 Kentucky
(ages 5 and over)		 3,724 841 22.6% 141 3.8%
Disability Type
Sensory   225   44 19.4%
Mobility   518   127 24.5%
Cognitive   292   76 26.0%
Self-care   141   141  
Leaving the home   267   101 37.9%
Work disability   452   100 22.1%
Gender
Male 1,802 393 21.8% 56 3.1%
Female 1,922 447 23.3% 85 4.4%
Age
Children (5-17) 674 60 8.9% 8 1.1%
5-15 567 48 8.4% 6 1.0%
16-17 108 12 11.6% 2 1.9%
Working Ages (18-64) 2,572 514 20.0% 77 3.0%
18-44 1,568 210 13.4% 26 1.7%
45-64 1,004 304 30.3% 51 5.1%
Elderly (65+) 478 266 55.6% 56 11.8%
65-74 269 125 46.6% 18 6.8%
75-84 163 102 62.7% 26 15.9%
85+ 47 39 83.0% 12 26.4%
Race
White 3,408 785 23.0% 131 3.9%
African American 261 52 19.8% 7 2.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander 40 3 7.1% 1 2.0%
American Indian/Alaska Native 35 17 48.5% 4 10.4%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 60 7 11.7% 2 2.7%
Non-Hispanic 3,664 834 22.7% 139 3.8%
Family Income
In poverty 565 209 37.0% 38 6.8%
Above poverty 3,149 631 20.0% 103 3.3%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 646 381 59.0% 83 12.8%
Supplemental Security Income 125 122 97.0% 29 23.1%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 1,708 173 10.1% 7 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 132 25 18.7% 2 1.4%
Not in labor force 715 316 44.2% 68 9.5%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 438 180 41.1% 32 7.2%
Lives with others 3,286 661 20.1% 109 3.3%

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


About the Kentucky 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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