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State information > Arkansas Disability Statistics Table From 2003 American Community Survey

Arkansas Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 525,000 people in Arkansas have a disability, or 21.3% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 101,000 people, or 4.1% 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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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 Arkansas
(ages 5 and over)		 2,462 525 21.3% 101 4.1%
Disability Type          
Sensory   160   33 20.4%
Mobility   332   91 27.5%
Cognitive   196   55 28.1%
Self-care   101   101  
Leaving the home   147   75 51.1%
Work disability   324   89 27.4%
Gender          
Male 1,200 251 20.9% 45 3.7%
Female 1,263 274 21.7% 56 4.5%
Age          
Children (5-17) 487 45 9.3% 4 0.9%
    5-15 412 38 9.3% 4 0.9%
    16-17 75 7 9.4% 1 1.2%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,616 277 17.2% 51 3.2%
    18-44 982 107 10.9% 17 1.7%
    45-64 633 170 26.8% 34 5.4%
Elderly (65+) 359 203 56.4% 46 12.7%
    65-74 197 90 45.6% 15 7.8%
    75-84 121 77 63.6% 17 14.0%
    85+ 42 36 86.1% 13 31.9%
Race          
White 2,000 428 21.4% 81 4.1%
African American 383 89 23.3% 19 4.9%
Asian/Pacific Islander 32 4 13.3% <0.5 0.7%
American Indian/Alaska Native 32 9 29.5% 2 6.2%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 84 8 9.5% 1 1.7%
Non-Hispanic 2,378 517 21.8% 100 4.2%
Family Income          
In poverty 376 123 32.8% 26 7.0%
Above poverty 2,080 402 19.3% 75 3.6%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 457 270 59.0% 65 14.1%
Supplemental Security Income 56 54 97.3% 15 27.5%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 1,138 97 8.6% 8 0.7%
Unemployed (in labor force) 92 13 14.6% 2 2.3%
Not in labor force 383 166 43.4% 41 10.7%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 286 117 40.9% 27 9.3%
Lives with others 2,176 408 18.8% 75 3.4%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2003 American Community Survey (ACS).

About the Arkansas 2003 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 2003, 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.

These statistics from the 2003 ACS are both more current and more valid than estimates obtained from either the 2000 Census or previous years of the ACS. Problems discovered in two of the six disability questions, leading to a substantial overestimate of the disability population in the 2000 Census, have been fixed in the 2003 ACS questionnaire. These problems also affected prior years of the ACS, but to a lesser extent than the 2000 Census, due to different data collection procedures.

Previous years of disability data from the ACS:

 

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