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Mississippi Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 586,000 people in Mississippi have a disability, or 22.8% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 113,000 people, or 4.4% 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 Mississippi
(ages 5 and over)		 2,568 586 22.8% 113 4.4%
Disability Type
Sensory   184   46 25.0%
Mobility   347   99 28.5%
Cognitive   205   65 31.5%
Self-care   113   113  
Leaving the home   187   80 43.0%
Work disability   302   80 26.5%
Gender
Male 1,223 270 22.1% 45 3.7%
Female 1,345 316 23.5% 68 5.0%
Age
Children (5-17) 547 52 9.5% 7 1.4%
5-15 462 44 9.6% 7 1.5%
16-17 85 8 9.0% 0 0.5%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,697 343 20.2% 54 3.2%
18-44 1,061 141 13.3% 19 1.8%
45-64 635 201 31.7% 35 5.6%
Elderly (65+) 324 191 59.0% 51 15.8%
65-74 185 86 46.4% 17 9.4%
75-84 107 77 71.7% 21 19.4%
85+ 33 29 89.1% 13 40.1%
Race
White 1,595 351 22.0% 60 3.8%
African American 938 229 24.4% 52 5.5%
Asian/Pacific Islander 18 3 14.6% 0 1.0%
American Indian/Alaska Native 14 5 34.1% 1 8.1%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 29 4 13.4% 1 2.4%
Non-Hispanic 2,539 582 22.9% 112 4.4%
Family Income
In poverty 487 157 32.2% 33 6.8%
Above poverty 2,073 428 20.7% 80 3.8%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 415 247 59.4% 64 15.5%
Supplemental Security Income 81 79 97.4% 22 27.0%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 1,141 134 11.7% 8 0.7%
Unemployed (in labor force) 120 21 17.7% 3 2.2%
Not in labor force 425 187 44.0% 43 10.2%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 259 117 45.0% 26 10.1%
Lives with others 2,309 469 20.3% 87 3.8%

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


About the Mississippi 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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