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With a disability, under age 65 years, percent, 2014-2018 - (Percent)
County
Value
Alamance
9.9
Alexander
13.5
Alleghany
16.5
Anson
12.5
Ashe
10.4
Avery
12.9
Beaufort
13.1
Bertie
14.1
Bladen
15.1
Brunswick
12.9
Buncombe
9.2
Burke
14.9
Cabarrus
7.0
Caldwell
13.4
Camden
9.5
Carteret
14.5
Caswell
12.6
Catawba
10.0
Chatham
10.3
Cherokee
13.7
Chowan
10.3
Clay
13.4
Cleveland
11.4
Columbus
14.2
Craven
12.2
Cumberland
13.2
Currituck
11.1
Dare
9.9
Davidson
11.4
Davie
10.4
Duplin
13.7
Durham
7.0
Edgecombe
12.1
Forsyth
6.7
Franklin
11.1
Gaston
11.5
Gates
16.0
Graham
12.2
Granville
11.5
Greene
18.1
Guilford
7.5
Halifax
13.9
Harnett
10.1
Haywood
12.3
Henderson
9.7
Hertford
15.2
Hoke
13.4
Hyde
6.8
Iredell
9.6
Jackson
10.1
Johnston
10.5
Jones
18.8
Lee
11.6
Lenoir
19.1
Lincoln
11.5
Macon
11.3
Madison
12.2
Martin
13.1
McDowell
16.4
Mecklenburg
5.7
Mitchell
12.0
Montgomery
9.8
Moore
10.1
Nash
11.0
New Hanover
9.0
Northampton
14.9
Onslow
14.2
Orange
5.9
Pamlico
14.2
Pasquotank
10.2
Pender
12.5
Perquimans
8.9
Person
14.4
Pitt
8.9
Polk
10.5
Randolph
11.7
Richmond
13.2
Robeson
11.5
Rockingham
12.2
Rowan
11.1
Rutherford
14.6
Sampson
13.8
Scotland
12.1
Stanly
10.8
Stokes
10.4
Surry
15.2
Swain
12.5
Transylvania
10.4
Tyrrell
15.5
Union
6.3
Vance
13.9
Wake
5.8
Warren
13.8
Washington
16.8
Watauga
7.8
Wayne
12.2
Wilkes
12.9
Wilson
11.4
Yadkin
11.5
Yancey
12.8
Value for North Carolina (Percent): 9.5%
Data item: With a disability, under age 65 years, percent, 2014-2018
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS), 5-Year Estimates. The PRCS is part of the Census Bureau's ACS, customized for Puerto Rico. Both Surveys are updated every year.
Definition
In an attempt to capture a variety of characteristics that encompass the definition of disability, the ACS identifies serious difficulty with four basic areas of functioning – hearing, vision, cognition, and ambulation. These functional limitations are supplemented by questions about difficulties with selected activities from the Katz Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) scales, namely difficulty bathing and dressing, and difficulty performing errands such as shopping. Overall, the ACS attempts to capture six aspects of disability: (hearing, vision, cognitive, ambulatory, self-care, and independent living); which can be used together to create an overall disability measure, or independently to identify populations with specific disability types. For the complete definition, go to ACS subject definitions "Disability Status."
Source and Accuracy
This Fact is based on data collected in the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) conducted annually by the U.S. Census Bureau. A sample of over 3.5 million housing unit addresses is interviewed each year over a 12 month period. This Fact (estimate) is based on five years of ACS and PRCS sample data and describes the average value of person, household and housing unit characteristics over this period of collection.
Statistics from all surveys are subject to sampling and nonsampling error. Sampling error is the uncertainty between an estimate based on a sample and the corresponding value that would be obtained if the estimate were based on the entire population (as from a census). Measures of sampling error are provided in the form of margins of error for all estimates included with ACS and PRCS published products. The Census Bureau recommends that data users incorporate this information into their analyses, as sampling error in survey estimates could impact the conclusions drawn from the results. The data for each geographic area are presented together with margins of error at Using margins of error. A more detailed explanation of margins of error and a demonstration of how to use them is provided below.
For more information on sampling and estimation methodology, confidentiality, and sampling and nonsampling errors, please see the Multiyear Accuracy (US) and the Multiyear Accuracy (Puerto Rico) documents at "Documentation - Accuracy of the data."
Margin of Error
As mentioned above, ACS estimates are based on a sample and are subject to sampling error. The margin of error measures the degree of uncertainty caused by sampling error. The margin of error is used with an ACS estimate to construct a confidence interval about the estimate. The interval is formed by adding the margin of error to the estimate (the upper bound) and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate (the lower bound). It is expected with 90 percent confidence that the interval will contain the full population value of the estimate. The following example is for demonstrating purposes only. Suppose the ACS reported that the percentage of people in a state who were 25 years and older with a bachelor's degree was 21.3 percent and that the margin of error associated with this estimate was 0.7 percent. By adding and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate, we calculate the 90-percent confidence interval for this estimate:
Therefore, we can be 90 percent confident that the percent of the population 25 years and older in a state having a bachelor's degree falls somewhere between 20.6 percent and 22.0 percent.
