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Rhode Island Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 161,000 people in Rhode Island have a disability, or 16.6% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 22,000 people, or 2.2% 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 Rhode Island
(ages 5 and over)		 970 161 16.6% 22 2.2%
Disability Type
Sensory   38   6 15.3%
Mobility   80   17 21.7%
Cognitive   50   12 23.9%
Self-care   22   22  
Leaving the home   48   13 27.6%
Work disability   76   14 17.9%
Gender
Male 464 75 16.2% 9 1.9%
Female 506 86 17.0% 13 2.5%
Age
Children (5-17) 177 13 7.3% 2 1.3%
5-15 148 10 7.0% 2 1.3%
16-17 29 3 8.9% 0 1.6%
Working Ages (18-64) 649 85 13.1% 9 1.4%
18-44 399 36 9.1% 3 0.7%
45-64 250 49 19.5% 6 2.3%
Elderly (65+) 144 64 44.2% 10 7.2%
65-74 70 22 32.1% 3 3.8%
75-84 58 30 51.2% 5 8.0%
85+ 16 11 71.4% 3 19.1%
Race
White 844 143 16.9% 19 2.3%
African American 49 8 16.6% 1 1.7%
Asian/Pacific Islander 27 3 11.4% 0 1.0%
American Indian/Alaska Native 8 2 26.8% 1 7.9%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 87 11 12.9% 1 1.2%
Non-Hispanic 883 150 17.0% 21 2.3%
Family Income
In poverty 94 22 23.7% 3 3.7%
Above poverty 873 139 15.9% 18 2.1%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 156 71 45.7% 12 7.7%
Supplemental Security Income 22 22 97.6% 4 18.7%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 485 39 8.0% 1 0.2%
Unemployed (in labor force) 29 4 14.6% 0 1.6%
Not in labor force 133 42 31.2% 7 5.5%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 119 42 35.6% 7 5.7%
Lives with others 851 119 14.0% 15 1.7%

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


About the Rhode Island 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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