title: Number of people in the United States experiencing ambulatory and independent living difficulties.
abstract: Estimating the characteristics of the "disabled" population is necessary for some governments and of interest to health researchers concerned with producing disability prevalence rates. Because generating easy-to-understand estimates of disability in the population is important, this article provides U.S. population estimates for two disability-related measures by using the 2009 to 2011 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample file. The number of people who have "independent living" and "ambulatory" difficulties is calculated from a sample of 9,204,437 (representing >309 million people). The percentage for "disabled" is found to vary by racial and ethnic category, sex, age, citizenship status, educational attainment, and state-level regions divided by weather.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health , University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , USA.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Siordia
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D057187:Independent Living; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D051346:Mobility Limitation; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: ambulatory difficulties; disability; elderly; ethnic minorities; gender equity; geographic information systems (GIS); independent living; people with disabilities