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

Montana Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 138,000 people in Montana have a disability, or 16.5% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 20,000 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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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 Montana
(ages 5 and over)		 839 138 16.5% 20 2.4%
Disability Type          
Sensory   49   8 15.8%
Mobility   81   19 23.0%
Cognitive   43   10 22.3%
Self-care   20   20  
Leaving the home   32   15 48.8%
Work disability   70   18 25.1%
Gender          
Male 414 68 16.5% 9 2.2%
Female 425 70 16.5% 11 2.6%
Age          
Children (5-17) 162 8 5.1% <0.5 0.3%
    5-15 135 7 4.8% <0.5 0.2%
    16-17 27 2 6.8% <0.5 0.6%
Working Ages (18-64) 559 77 13.9% 11 1.9%
    18-44 311 30 9.5% 3 1.1%
    45-64 248 48 19.3% 7 3.0%
Elderly (65+) 118 53 44.4% 9 7.4%
    65-74 62 22 34.6% 3 5.5%
    75-84 43 22 50.6% 3 7.8%
    85+ 13 9 70.2% 2 14.5%
Race          
White 777 128 16.4% 18 2.4%
African American 3 <0.5 11.8% <0.5 <0.05%
Asian/Pacific Islander 10 1 12.1% <0.5 0.9%
American Indian/Alaska Native 59 12 20.2% 2 3.0%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 16 2 11.7% <0.5 1.0%
Non-Hispanic 823 137 16.6% 20 2.4%
Family Income          
In poverty 110 27 24.4% 4 4.0%
Above poverty 726 111 15.3% 15 2.1%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 144 67 46.6% 12 8.3%
Supplemental Security Income 12 12 96.5% 2 18.5%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 416 37 9.0% 3 0.8%
Unemployed (in labor force) 25 4 17.1% <0.5 1.0%
Not in labor force 114 35 31.0% 7 6.3%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 106 34 32.1% 6 5.4%
Lives with others 733 104 14.2% 14 1.9%

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

About the Montana 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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