STATES Table 2
Percent of People with a Work Disability who were Working versus Not Working, 1990
STATE | PERCENT WORKING | PERCENT NOT WORKING | PERCENT OF PEOPLE IN THE STATE WHO HAD A WORK DISABILITY |
Alabama | 26.1 | 73.9 | 9.7 |
Alaska | 45.3 | 54.7 | 6.6 |
Arizona | 35.0 | 65.0 | 8.3 |
Arkansas | 28.2 | 71.8 | 11.2 |
California | 34.8 | 65.2 | 7.4 |
Colorado | 42.1 | 57.9 | 7.8 |
Connecticut | 43.5 | 56.5 | 6.4 |
Delaware | 40.4 | 59.6 | 7.7 |
District of Columbia | 31.5 | 68.5 | 8.4 |
Florida | 34.8 | 65.2 | 8.7 |
Georgia | 32.2 | 67.8 | 8.8 |
Hawaii | 40.8 | 59.2 | 6.6 |
Idaho | 42.6 | 57.4 | 9.0 |
Illinois | 33.6 | 66.4 | 6.9 |
Indiana | 36.2 | 63.8 | 7.9 |
Iowa | 42.5 | 57.5 | 7.6 |
Kansas | 41.5 | 58.5 | 7.2 |
Kentucky | 24.4 | 75.6 | 11.4 |
Louisiana | 23.7 | 76.3 | 10.3 |
Maine | 37.5 | 62.5 | 10.2 |
Maryland | 40.0 | 60.0 | 7.1 |
Massachusetts | 36.3 | 63.7 | 7.2 |
Michigan | 31.9 | 68.1 | 9.0 |
Minnesota | 48.4 | 51.6 | 7.4 |
Mississippi | 23.5 | 76.5 | 11.0 |
Missouri | 34.2 | 65.8 | 8.5 |
Montana | 37.5 | 62.5 | 9.7 |
Nebraska | 45.4 | 54.6 | 7.1 |
Nevada | 41.9 | 58.1 | 8.3 |
New Hampshire | 43.5 | 56.5 | 7.3 |
New Jersey | 36.9 | 63.1 | 6.2 |
New Mexico | 31.4 | 68.6 | 8.8 |
New York | 30.2 | 69.8 | 7.4 |
North Carolina | 33.6 | 66.4 | 8.7 |
North Dakota | 41.7 | 58.3 | 7.0 |
Ohio | 32.6 | 67.4 | 9.0 |
Oklahoma | 34.7 | 65.3 | 10.2 |
Oregon | 42.4 | 57.6 | 10.0 |
Pennsylvania | 31.6 | 68.4 | 8.3 |
Rhode Island | 37.4 | 62.6 | 8.6 |
South Carolina | 29.7 | 70.3 | 9.1 |
South Dakota | 46.3 | 53.7 | 7.8 |
Tennessee | 27.8 | 72.2 | 9.7 |
Texas | 34.2 | 65.8 | 7.6 |
Utah | 43.9 | 56.1 | 7.3 |
Vermont | 41.8 | 58.2 | 7.9 |
Virginia | 35.4 | 64.6 | 7.5 |
Washington | 40.5 | 59.5 | 9.1 |
West Virginia | 20.3 | 79.7 | 12.6 |
Wisconsin | 40.2 | 59.8 | 7.3 |
Wyoming | 42.7 | 57.3 | 7.3 |
NOTE: Persons were identified as having a Work Disability if they had a health condition (physical or mental) that had lasted for 6 or more months and which limited the kind or amount of work they could do at a job or business. Not Working includes (a) unemployed, (b) not in the labor force, prevented from working, and (c) not in the labor force, not prevented from working.
SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1990 Census