U.S. Table 5
Conditions Reported by People Age 15 and Over as Causes of Functional Activity Limitations, Activities of Daily Living Limitations, and Instrumental Limitations, 1991-92
| Total Population of the U.S. Age 15 and Over = 195,729,000 = 100% | ||
| Total People Age 15 and Over with a Disability = 46,023,000 | ||
| PEOPLE REPORTING THE CONDITION | THEIR PRIMARY CAUSE | |
| Alcohol or drug problem | 300,000 | 219,000 |
| AIDS or related condition | 105,000 | 93,000 |
| Arthritis or rheumatism | 7,184,000 | 5,963,000 |
| Back or spine problem (not SCI) | 5,679,000 | 4,248,000 |
| Blindness or vision problem | 1,481,000 | 835,000 |
| Broken bone or fracture | 830,000 | 540,000 |
| Cancer | 896,000 | 586,000 |
| Cerebral Palsy | 182,000 | 155,000 |
| Deafness or hearing problem | 1,099,000 | 671,000 |
| Diabetes | 1,619,000 | 685,000 |
| Epilepsy | 259,000 | 159,000 |
| Head or spinal cord injury | 592,000 | 368,000 |
| Heart trouble or hardening of arteries | 4,649,000 | 2,912,000 |
| Hernia or rupture | 413,000 | 191,000 |
| High blood pressure | 2,161,000 | 622,000 |
| Kidney stones or trouble | 400,000 | 157,000 |
| Learning disability | 235,000 | 124,000 |
| Lung or respiratory trouble | 2,840,000 | 1,903,000 |
| Mental or emotional problem | 784,000 | 430,000 |
| Mental retardation | 501,000 | 363,000 |
| Missing legs, feet, arms, hands, or fingers | 302,000 | 213,000 |
| Paralysis of any kind | 716,000 | 491,000 |
| Senility/Dementia/Alzheimer's | 381,000 | 245,000 |
| Speech disorder | 151,000 | 56,000 |
| Stiffness or deformity (foot, leg, arm, hand) | 2,024,000 | 1,189,000 |
| Stomach trouble | 537,000 | 95,000 |
| Stroke | 1,047,000 | 680,000 |
| Thyroid trouble or goiter | 139,000 | 12,000 |
| Tumor, cyst, or growth | 176,000 | 94,000 |
| Other | 4,287,000 | 2,990,000 |
NOTE: People selected the cause(s) of their limitation(s) from the list above (except people whose only difficulty was a seeing, hearing, or having speech understood limitation). "People Reporting the Condition" indicates that the condition was reported as one of up to three choices per person. "Their Primary Cause" indicates that the condition was their first choice selected. Totals may be used to compute percentages (e.g., 5,679,000/195,729,000 = 0.029 = 2.9% = the percent of people in the U.S. age 15 and over who reported a back or spine problem as a cause of a limitation.
SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Americans with Disabilities: 1991-92.