OODH: Disability Surveillance
To support program planning, OODH conducts supplemental surveillance of youth and adults with disabilities. This requires adding questions to two existing data collection systems:
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Oregon Healthy Teens survey (OHT)
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2013 Chartbook Executive Summary
How many people in Oregon have a disability? More than 800,000 Oregon adults age 18 and older have a disability. This is almost one third (28.8%) of the adult population of Oregon. Nationally, about one quarter (25.3%) of adults age 18 and older has a disability. However, when Oregonians were asked directly if they considered themselves to have a disability, only 18.5% said yes. When looking at specific counties, the percent of disability ranges from a low of 20.6% in Harney and Hood River Counties to a high of 35.1% in Douglas County. Figure 1 shows counties and percentages on a visual map of Oregon; Table 1 (page 2) presents all counties and their disability prevalence percentages in easy-to-read table format. Neighboring counties of Sherman, Wasco, and Gilliam have one combined estimate due to their small population sizes. Wheeler County's estimate was not large enough to be released
2013 Disability in Oregon Map
