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Missouri Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 887,000 people in Missouri have a disability, or 17.2% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 125,000 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 Missouri
(ages 5 and over)		 5,145 887 17.2% 125 2.4%
Disability Type
Sensory   236   38 16.1%
Mobility   517   113 21.9%
Cognitive   262   59 22.6%
Self-care   125   125  
Leaving the home   269   90 33.4%
Work disability   444   86 19.2%
Gender
Male 2,478 424 17.1% 47 1.9%
Female 2,667 463 17.3% 78 2.9%
Age
Children (5-17) 1,021 61 6.0% 8 0.8%
5-15 861 46 5.3% 7 0.8%
16-17 160 15 9.4% 1 0.5%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,417 494 14.5% 58 1.7%
18-44 2,085 199 9.5% 20 1.0%
45-64 1,332 295 22.2% 37 2.8%
Elderly (65+) 706 332 47.0% 59 8.4%
65-74 384 141 36.8% 19 4.8%
75-84 250 135 53.9% 25 9.9%
85+ 72 56 77.8% 16 22.3%
Race
White 4,460 770 17.3% 107 2.4%
African American 579 102 17.6% 16 2.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander 83 7 8.3% 0 0.4%
American Indian/Alaska Native 67 21 30.8% 4 6.6%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 100 11 11.4% 0 0.3%
Non-Hispanic 5,044 875 17.4% 125 2.5%
Family Income
In poverty 589 161 27.4% 25 4.3%
Above poverty 4,541 724 15.9% 99 2.2%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 846 417 49.3% 77 9.1%
Supplemental Security Income 84 79 95.1% 18 21.0%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 2,502 222 8.9% 8 0.3%
Unemployed (in labor force) 153 22 14.1% 1 0.4%
Not in labor force 741 249 33.6% 49 6.7%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 613 203 33.2% 27 4.4%
Lives with others 4,532 683 15.1% 98 2.2%

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


About the Missouri 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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