The intersection of disability status and rurality in American Indian/Alaskan Native communities

Name: The intersection of disability status and rurality in American Indian/Alaskan Native communities
Published: 2024-07-18
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Lillie Greiman, Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities at the University of Montana; Catherine Ipsen, Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities at the University of Montana

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Project Citation:

Greiman, Lillie , and Ipsen, Catherine . The intersection of disability status and rurality in American Indian/Alaskan Native communities. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-07-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/E208022V1

Project Description

Summary: There is a noteworthy gap in the literature regarding disability in rural American
Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) communities. This is significant, as many tribal
lands are in rural areas and AI/AN individuals experience some of the highest
prevalence rates of disability. To address this gap, we used descriptive statistics
to examine the intersection of AI/AN and rurality in disability prevalence.
Results indicate that rural counties have the highest prevalence of disability
for both Whites and AI/ANs and that AI/ANs experience higher prevalence
rates than Whites. However, further analysis indicates that county makeup
(counties with high prevalence of AI/AN in the general population) moderated
this relationship. Specifically, rural counties with populations of at least 5%
AI/AN had lower prevalence of AI/AN disability compared to counties with
populations with less than 5% AI/AN. Further analysis is needed to unpack
this relationship, but results might suggest that AI/AN communities may
feature resilient and protective attributes, moderating the amount of disability
experienced in rural AI/AN communities.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Disability status; rurality; disabled; American Indian; Alaskan Native communities

Geographic Coverage: Counties in the United States

Universe: Counties in the United States

Data Type(s): administrative records data

Collection Notes:

Data types-

The American Community Survey 2015-2019 & OMB Metropolitan Classifications 2017

Methodology

Sampling: 3,136 Counties for descriptive and statistical analysis (pearsons r correlations and t-tests)

Data Source: The American Community Survey 2015-2019

Collection Mode(s): other

Scales: Attached with submission.

Unit(s) of Observation: Counties

Geographic Unit: United States

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