The U.S. Census Bureau today released a report on the demographic and economic characteristics of families with members who have a disability.

     The report, Disability and American Families: 2000, [PDF] provides information on disability prevalence in families at the national, regional and state levels. It presents data on family income, employment status of the family householder and poverty status of the families with a member who has a disability. The report also has information on families who raise children with disabilities. Limited data by race and Hispanic origin also are included.

     Census 2000 results show nearly 20.9 million families with at least one member who has a disability and these families differed in important ways from other families.

     The estimates in the report are special tabulations based on responses from the sample of households (about 1-in-6 nationally) who received the Census 2000 long form. The data are subject to sampling and nonsampling error.

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