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

Utah Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 235,000 people in Utah have a disability, or 11.3% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 33,000 people, or 1.6% 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 Utah
(ages 5 and over)		 2,083 235 11.3% 33 1.6%
Disability Type          
Sensory   70   11 15.4%
Mobility   127   28 22.3%
Cognitive   88   18 20.2%
Self-care   33   33  
Leaving the home   50   24 47.8%
Work disability   101   26 26.2%
Gender          
Male 1,043 120 11.5% 13 1.2%
Female 1,039 115 11.1% 20 1.9%
Age          
Children (5-17) 511 27 5.3% 3 0.5%
    5-15 440 23 5.3% 2 0.5%
    16-17 72 4 5.5% <0.5 0.3%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,375 126 9.1% 14 1.0%
    18-44 957 61 6.4% 6 0.6%
    45-64 418 65 15.5% 8 1.9%
Elderly (65+) 197 82 41.7% 16 8.2%
    65-74 108 34 31.2% 6 5.3%
    75-84 71 36 51.3% 6 8.2%
    85+ 17 12 68.5% 5 26.8%
Race          
White 1,912 213 11.2% 31 1.6%
African American 32 5 16.9% <0.5 <0.05%
Asian/Pacific Islander 70 6 8.1% <0.5 0.5%
American Indian/Alaska Native 25 4 18.2% 1 5.4%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 198 16 8.1% 2 1.1%
Non-Hispanic 1,884 219 11.6% 30 1.6%
Family Income          
In poverty 204 30 14.9% 6 2.9%
Above poverty 1,874 205 10.9% 27 1.4%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 207 85 41.1% 17 8.1%
Supplemental Security Income 20 18 87.8% 6 27.7%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 1,008 62 6.2% 4 0.3%
Unemployed (in labor force) 72 13 17.6% <0.5 0.4%
Not in labor force 287 51 17.8% 10 3.6%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 144 40 27.9% 5 3.7%
Lives with others 1,939 195 10.0% 27 1.4%

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

About the Utah 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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