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2. The Disability Status Report Rollout Webinar
January 30, 2018
The Disability Status Reports are produced and funded by the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability at the Cornell University ILR School. This effort originated as a product of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Demographics and Statistics funded by the U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (Grant No. H133B031111). The contents of this presentation do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government (Edgar, (b)).

3. Our Presenters Presenter: Presenter: Bill Erickson Research Specialist
Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability
Cornell University
Presenter:
Sarah von Schrader
Associate Director of Research
Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability
Cornell University

4. Why Disability Statistics?
Help policy-makers, service providers, advocates and others to better understand issues and trends among the population of people with disabilities (nationally, state-wide, and locally).
They can support effective planning and improve our understanding of barriers to persons with disabilities.
However, finding, accessing, using, and documenting relevant current disability statistics can be challenging – DisabilityStatistics.org is designed to support this need.

5. Objective
The purpose of this webinar is to provide an overview of the key statistics available from:
The 2016 Disability Status Reports
DisabilityStatistics.org

6. Please tell us a little bit about yourself.
Are you a …? (Please select all that apply)
Person with a disability/Family member
Student
Researcher/Educator
Policymaker
Service provider
Media representative
None of the above
Before we get started we’d like to have a quick little poll to get a sense of who is attending. Are you a person with a disability or family member of a PWD? Student, researcher/educator, policy maker, service provider or other>?
Please check all that apply

7. Overview Description of 2016 Status Reports
Data source
Geographic coverage
Topics covered
Selected estimates from the 2016 reports
Quick tour of DisabilityStatistics.org

8. 2016 Status Reports
Data: Based on U.S. Census Bureau’s 2016 American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS).
Population: Includes the household population and people living in non-institutional group quarters, such as dormitories and group homes.
Sample: Nearly 3.1 million persons in the U.S., weighted to a total population of 319 million.
Data from the report is based on the 2016 American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS). The ACS is an annual survey only second in size to the decennial Census. 8

9. 2016 Disability Status Reports U.S., 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico
I’d like to acknowledge the amazing team without which the status reports and disability statistics website would not be possible. Especially Jason Criss and Camille Lee for their great design work and creating a Disability Statistics that is now easier to navigate and use.
Sara Van looy for her editing expertise and all the past contributors who have made DisabiltyStatistics and the Status Report possible.
We have created 106 unique status reports in all This image just shows a few of the 53 separate status reports for the US, all 50 states DC and Puerto Rico. We also have all 53 Spanish language versions as well. Note that the US version only includes the 50 states and the district of Columbia, not Puerto Rico.
All of the reports can be downloaded as PDF files or accessible HTMLs from DisabilityStatistics which I will show you towards the end of this presentation.
Download at

10. Prevalence Rate (all ages)
So on to the data!
Note that all of our estimates in the Status reports are limited to the non-institutionalized population, of whom nearly 41 million or 12.8% report one or more of the 6 ACS disability types.
Does not include persons living in institutions

11. Overall Disability Reporting one or more of the six disability types:
Visual (all ages)
Hearing (all ages)
Ambulatory (ages 5+)
Cognitive (ages 5+)
Self-Care (ages 5+)
Independent living (ages 15+)
So what are the 6 ACS disability types?: These are the disability types that people could self report in the 2016 ACS
Note that the overall disability category includes anyone who reported one of more of these 6 disability types and a person can report more than one disability type:
Now to really understand what these categories mean it is important to take one further step back and consider the actual questions people responded to – note that not all questions were asked of all ages
Visual disability : blind or has serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses
Hearing disability: deaf or have serious difficulty hearing
Cognitive Disability: Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition have serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions?
Ambulatory Disability: serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs
Self-Care Disability (ages 5+) difficulty dressing or bathing
Independent Living Disability (ages 15+): Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition, does this person have difficulty doing errands alone such as visiting a doctors office or shopping?

12. 2016 Disability Status Report Topics
Prevalence
Working-Age Population (ages 21-64):
Employment
Annual FTFY earnings and household income
Poverty
Social Security Income (SSI) receipt
Educational attainment
Veterans service-connected disability rating
Health insurance coverage
Here you see a list of the various topics we provide in our status reports. Note that most of the estimates and breakdowns we provide on DisabilityStatistics and the Status reports are only available there as we produce our own estimates therefore are not limited to the basic Census Bureau tables.
Disability Prevalence in a variety of ways including by age groups, race, ethnicity and gender
Other topics especially relevant to the working age population (21-64) regarding a number of economic and other important indicators for the working age population (21-64) including:
. . .
Today we will focus our presentation on prevalence, employment, poverty and insurance coverage

13. Selected estimates from the 2016 report
So now I will hand the presentation over to Sarah von Schrader who will present some of the information covered in the latest Status report:

14. Prevalence Rate by Type of Disability (All ages)
About 1 in 8 non-institutionalized people nationwide have a disability (12.8%)
Remember that a person can report one or more types of disability! Of those with a disability, nearly half (48%) reported having 2 or more of the six disability types. The proportions for disability types do not add up to the to the overall prevalence rate of 12.8
41 million people with disabilities
319 million population of US (non-institutionalized)
Ambulatory disability is the most common at 7.1%
Followed by Independent living at 5.7%
And cognitive at 5.2%
3.6% report a hearing impairment of deafness and about 2.7% report self-care and 2.4% report a visual impairment or blindness
Note: Respondents could report more than one disability type

15. Prevalence Rate by Age 0-5 Visual and hearing
5-15 Self-care, Cognitive, Ambulatory, Visual and hearing
Prevalence rate greatly increases with age:
5% of youth ages 5-20
Quarter of those 65-75
Half of those 75+

16. Prevalence Rate – Working age (Ages 21-64)

17. Question:
Which US State has the lowest prevalence of disability among the working age population, according to the 2016 ACS?
Wisconsin
New Jersey
Nevada
Maryland
Connecticut 8.7 California 8.5 Hawaii 8 New Jersey 8
West Virginia 18.5 Puerto Rico 18.1 Kentucky 17 Arkansas 15.6 Mississippi 15.1

18. Disability Prevalence Rate (Ages 21-64)
The percentage of non-institutionalized, male or female, ages 21-64, all races, regardless of ethnicity, with all education levels in the United States reported a disability in 2016.
Highest in mid-southern states (and Maine) 13%+:
West Virginia 18.5
Kentucky 17.0
Arkansas 15.6
Oklahoma 15.1
Lowest (<9%) in:
New Jersey 8.0
Hawaii 8.0
California 8.5
Minnesota 8.9
So now I’ll hand things over to Sarah von Schrader who will talk more about the situation of working age persons with disabilities.

19. Employment Rate (Ages 21-64)
Gap between employment rates of people with and without disabilities is:
42.7 percentage points for employment rate
Employment
A person is considered employed if he or she is either
a. “at work”: those who did any work at all during the reference week as a paid
employee (worked in his or her own business or profession, worked on his or her own
farm, or worked 15 or more hours as an unpaid worker on a family farm or business) or
b. were “with a job but not at work,” : had a job but temporarily did not work at that job
during the reference week due to illness, bad weather, industrial dispute, vacation or
other personal reasons. The reference week is defined as the week preceding the
date the questionnaire was completed.
Full-Time/Full-Year Employment

20. Employment Rates by Disability Type (Ages 21-64)
Employment rate is highest for people with a hearing disability
52.1% employed
Employment rate lowest for people with self-care disabilities at 15.4% employed

21. Question:
Which US state has the highest employment rate gap between the working-age population without and with disabilities, according to the 2016 ACS?
South Carolina
Ohio
Rhode Island
New Mexico
Location People with Disabilities 2016 People without Disabilities 2016 gap
Rhode Island % point gap
Maine % point gap
Alabama % point gap
District of Columbia % point gap

22. Employment Rate of Persons with Disabilities (Ages 21-64)
Highest employment rates:
South Dakota 52.0
North Dakota 51.5
Nebraska 49.8
Alaska 49.4
Minnesota 48.7
Lowest employment rates:
Puerto Rico 23.1
West Virginia 27.9
Alabama 27.9
Mississippi 29.0

23. Employment Rate: 2008-2016 (Ages 21-64)
Employment rate gap is fairly consistently a 40+ percentage point gap

24. Poverty Rate (ages 21-64)

25. Poverty rate: 2008-2016 (Ages 21-64)
Poverty rate has been consistently about 2.5 time higher for people with disabilities

26. Health Insurance Coverage for People with a Disability (ages 21-64)
People with disabilities were slightly more likely to have health insurance than those w/o disabilities 90.3% to 87.7%
Health insurance rates however varied by disability type with persons with visual disabilities the least likely to have coverage (87.6%)
while 93% of persons with self-care and independent living disabilities 26

27. Percent Uninsured: 2008-2016 (Ages 21-64)

28. Features and Research Tools on DisabilityStatistics.org
Mobile device friendly interface
ACS data maps
Disability Status Reports for
EEOC charge data summaries
Dataset research tools
Rehabilitation Dataset Directory
Rehabilitation Research Cross-dataset Variable Catalog
Disability and Compensation Variables Catalog

29. A Quick Tour of DisabilityStatistics.org
Show Status Report download
Dropdown menus for location & year
Spanish and Virgin Islands
Show actual report! (description, data tables & charts )
Employment rate for persons with disabilities
Show cool map!
Research tools:
University of Texas Medical Branch collaboration leading the Center for Large Data Research & Data Sharing in Rehabilitation.
Of particular interest might be the Rehabilitation Dataset Directory where we document over 50 different datasets that include disability information:
For more information RE ACS & other data sources

30. For more information K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability Cornell University ILR School 201 Dolgen Hall Ithaca, New York t tty f
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