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Maryland Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 752,000 people in Maryland have a disability, or 15.2% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 119,000 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 Maryland
(ages 5 and over)		 4,962 752 15.2% 119 2.4%
Disability Type
Sensory   162   26 15.8%
Mobility   399   95 23.7%
Cognitive   218   58 26.6%
Self-care   119   119  
Leaving the home   238   79 33.3%
Work disability   363   83 22.8%
Gender
Male 2,383 355 14.9% 46 1.9%
Female 2,579 397 15.4% 73 2.8%
Age
Children (5-17) 1,012 71 7.0% 11 1.1%
5-15 861 57 6.6% 9 1.1%
16-17 151 14 9.1% 1 0.8%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,364 433 12.9% 61 1.8%
18-44 2,065 184 8.9% 24 1.1%
45-64 1,299 249 19.2% 37 2.9%
Elderly (65+) 587 248 42.3% 47 8.0%
65-74 318 103 32.4% 16 5.1%
75-84 215 104 48.3% 19 8.7%
85+ 54 41 76.0% 12 21.7%
Race
White 3,299 478 14.5% 74 2.2%
African American 1,376 236 17.1% 41 3.0%
Asian/Pacific Islander 249 28 11.1% 3 1.4%
American Indian/Alaska Native 46 10 21.8% 0 0.9%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 229 23 10.1% 4 1.9%
Non-Hispanic 4,732 729 15.4% 114 2.4%
Family Income
In poverty 384 91 23.6% 20 5.1%
Above poverty 4,559 660 14.5% 99 2.2%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 643 281 43.8% 58 9.0%
Supplemental Security Income 65 60 92.7% 14 22.2%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 2,549 227 8.9% 17 0.7%
Unemployed (in labor force) 159 29 18.4% 5 3.3%
Not in labor force 628 177 28.1% 39 6.3%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 537 162 30.1% 21 4.0%
Lives with others 4,425 590 13.3% 97 2.2%

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


About the Maryland 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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