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State information > North Carolina Disability Statistics Table From 2003 American Community Survey

North Carolina Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 1,318,000 people in North Carolina have a disability, or 17.4% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 228,000 people, or 3.0% 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 North Carolina
(ages 5 and over)		 7,557 1,318 17.4% 228 3.0%
Disability Type          
Sensory   327   70 21.4%
Mobility   823   207 25.1%
Cognitive   460   115 25.0%
Self-care   228   228  
Leaving the home   343   169 49.2%
Work disability   760   194 25.5%
Gender          
Male 3,665 620 16.9% 91 2.5%
Female 3,892 698 17.9% 137 3.5%
Age          
Children (5-17) 1,484 126 8.5% 15 1.0%
    5-15 1,267 107 8.5% 13 1.1%
    16-17 217 19 8.8% 2 0.8%
Working Ages (18-64) 5,120 718 14.0% 112 2.2%
    18-44 3,168 275 8.7% 38 1.2%
    45-64 1,952 443 22.7% 74 3.8%
Elderly (65+) 953 474 49.7% 101 10.6%
    65-74 534 215 40.2% 34 6.4%
    75-84 337 192 56.8% 41 12.1%
    85+ 82 67 82.7% 25 31.1%
Race          
White 5,563 959 17.2% 162 2.9%
African American 1,630 334 20.5% 61 3.7%
Asian/Pacific Islander 145 8 5.8% 1 0.7%
American Indian/Alaska Native 128 38 29.9% 9 6.8%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 391 18 4.6% 3 0.8%
Non-Hispanic 7,166 1,300 18.1% 225 3.1%
Family Income          
In poverty 1,019 294 28.9% 56 5.5%
Above poverty 6,510 1,019 15.7% 171 2.6%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 1,197 626 52.3% 137 11.4%
Supplemental Security Income 142 138 96.8% 31 21.7%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 3,603 249 6.9% 16 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 319 47 14.8% 4 1.3%
Not in labor force 1,156 420 36.3% 91 7.9%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 868 274 31.5% 49 5.7%
Lives with others 6,689 1,044 15.6% 178 2.7%

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

About the North Carolina 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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