Disability Status: 2000

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1. Disability Status: 2000
2. About one in five persons, aged five and over in the civilian non-institutionalized population, reported a disability in Census 2000.
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5. Census 2000 Questions on Disability
6. Disability rates rose with age.
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8. Persons 65 years and older were more likely to report a sensory, physical, mental, or self-care disability, or a disability causing difficulty going outside the home.
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10. Disability rates varied among the major racial and ethnic groups.
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12. Asians had the lowest overall disability rate.
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14. Disability rates were among the highest for people of two or more races.
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16. The overall disability rate was higher for Hispanics than for non-Hispanic Whites.
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18. Almost two out of every five people with a disability lived in the South.
19. Disability rates for the four regions.
20. The disability rate was highest in West Virginia.
21. Disability Rates by State: South
22. Disability Rates by State: West and Midwest
23. Counties with very high disability rates were clustered in the coal mining areas of Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia.
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25. More than one person in four reported a disability in each of the ten places with the highest disability rates.
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27. The lowest disability rates were in fast growing areas on the outskirts of metropolitan areas.
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29. Almost half of the people with any disability reported more than one.
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31. People with disabilities were less likely to be employed.
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33. In 2000, 8.7 million people with disabilities were poor.
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