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Counting Working-Age People with Disabilities

What Current Data Tell Us and Options for Improvement

Andrew J. Houtenville, David C. Stapleton, Robert R. Weathers II, and Richard V. Burkhauser, Editors

Introductory chapter | Table of Contents

U.S. government agencies compile a thorough set of statistics on populations defined by age, race, ethnicity, and marital status—but not by disability status. Therefore, working-age people with disabilities are often overlooked in discussions of the latest statistics on employment, income, poverty, and other measures of the status of a particular population. This book helps remedy this situation by providing a systematic review of what current statistics and data on working-age people with disabilities can and cannot tell us, and how the quality of the data can be improved to better inform policymakers, advocates, analysts, service providers, administrators, and others interested in this at-risk population. Included are:
  • Purpose, Overview, and Key Conclusions, David C. Stapleton, Andrew J. Houtenville, Robert R. Weathers II, and Richard V. Burkhauser
  • The Disability Data Landscape, Robert R. Weathers II
  • Disability Prevalence and Demographics, Andrew J. Houtenville, Elizabeth Potamites, William A. Erickson, and S. Antonio Ruiz-Quintanilla
  • Employment, Robert R. Weathers II and David C. Wittenburg
  • Household Income, Richard V. Burkhauser, Ludmila Rovba, and Robert R. Weathers II
  • Poverty, Richard V. Burkhauser, Andrew J. Houtenville, and Ludmila Rovba
  • Health and Functional Status, Gerry E. Hendershot, Benjamin H. Harris, and David C. Stapleton
  • Survey Data Collection Methods, Janice Ballou and Jason Markesich
  • Program Participants, David C. Stapleton, David C. Wittenburg, and Craig Thornton
  • The Group Quarters Population, Peiyun She and David C. Stapleton
  • Options for Improving Disability Data Collection, David C. Stapleton, Gina A. Livermore, and Peiyun She
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    • 430 pp. 2009
    $45 cloth 978-0-88099-347-0
    $22 paper 978-0-88099-346-3
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