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Utah Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 265,000 people in Utah have a disability, or 12.9% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 43,000 people, or 2.1% 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 Utah
(ages 5 and over)		 2,056 265 12.9% 43 2.1%
Disability Type
Sensory   78   15 19.0%
Mobility   134   39 29.0%
Cognitive   93   22 23.3%
Self-care   43   43  
Leaving the home   86   35 41.1%
Work disability   124   35 28.3%
Gender
Male 1,023 129 12.6% 14 1.3%
Female 1,033 136 13.1% 30 2.9%
Age
Children (5-17) 489 23 4.8% 2 0.4%
5-15 413 19 4.6% 1 0.3%
16-17 75 4 5.7% 0 0.6%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,376 152 11.0% 21 1.5%
18-44 958 74 7.8% 7 0.8%
45-64 418 77 18.5% 13 3.2%
Elderly (65+) 192 90 46.9% 21 10.9%
65-74 105 38 36.5% 6 5.7%
75-84 68 37 55.4% 9 12.7%
85+ 20 14 72.9% 6 32.8%
Race
White 1,904 251 13.2% 43 2.2%
African American 20 1 6.2% 0 0.0%
Asian/Pacific Islander 73 5 7.4% 1 1.3%
American Indian/Alaska Native 30 8 26.1% 1 4.8%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 192 16 8.4% 2 0.8%
Non-Hispanic 1,864 249 13.3% 42 2.2%
Family Income
In poverty 205 31 15.1% 4 1.9%
Above poverty 1,846 233 12.6% 40 2.1%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 216 104 48.1% 23 10.8%
Supplemental Security Income 20 18 90.2% 4 20.3%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 1,008 77 7.7% 4 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 69 14 20.3% 0 0.4%
Not in labor force 296 60 20.4% 16 5.5%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 129 41 31.9% 9 7.1%
Lives with others 1,928 224 11.6% 34 1.8%

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


About the Utah 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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