Persons with disabilities

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-020692",
  "term": "Persons with disabilities",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Persons with Disabilities",
  "definition": "Percent of all persons with disabilities. Considers six disability types: hearing difficulty, vision difficulty, cognitive difficulty, ambulatory difficulty, self-care difficulty, and independent living difficulty. Respondents who report any one of the six disability types are considered to have a disability. For more information on each disability type visit: Census.gov: How Disability Data are Collected from The American Community Survey. This data is derived from Census ACS data at the tract level. Block group values are calculated by multiplying the tract value by the block population weight. The weights are derived from the same Census source used by the EJScreen buffer reports and analysis.",
  "subject": "Health and safety",
  "references": [
    "Download ACS Data"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/persons-with-disabilities/"
}