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State information > District of Columbia Disability Statistics Table From 2003 American Community Survey

District of Columbia Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 71,000 people in District of Columbia have a disability, or 14.4% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 12,000 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 District of Columbia
(ages 5 and over)		 495 71 14.4% 12 2.4%
Disability Type          
Sensory   19   3 16.7%
Mobility   42   10 24.9%
Cognitive   25   6 23.2%
Self-care   12   12  
Leaving the home   17   8 47.1%
Work disability   37   10 26.0%
Gender          
Male 231 28 12.4% 4 1.9%
Female 265 43 16.2% 8 2.9%
Age          
Children (5-17) 74 5 7.4% 1 0.8%
    5-15 64 5 7.7% <0.5 0.6%
    16-17 10 1 5.4% <0.5 1.9%
Working Ages (18-64) 358 41 11.3% 6 1.5%
    18-44 232 17 7.5% 2 0.9%
    45-64 126 23 18.4% 3 2.7%
Elderly (65+) 63 25 40.0% 6 9.2%
    65-74 33 10 29.3% 2 6.1%
    75-84 22 10 46.2% 2 9.2%
    85+ 8 5 65.6% 2 21.4%
Race          
White 158 11 7.2% 2 1.2%
African American 294 57 19.3% 10 3.3%
Asian/Pacific Islander 19 1 7.1% <0.5 1.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 4 1 20.9% <0.5 5.5%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 48 4 7.6% 1 1.2%
Non-Hispanic 448 68 15.1% 11 2.5%
Family Income          
In poverty 94 21 22.0% 2 2.2%
Above poverty 400 51 12.7% 10 2.4%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 60 26 42.8% 5 9.0%
Supplemental Security Income 10 9 91.7% 2 20.1%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 249 15 6.1% 2 0.7%
Unemployed (in labor force) 32 4 12.1% <0.5 0.8%
Not in labor force 76 21 28.4% 4 4.7%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 118 23 20.0% 4 3.4%
Lives with others 378 48 12.7% 8 2.1%

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

About the District of Columbia 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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