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Activity Number:
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12
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Sunday, August 11, 2002 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Government Statistics*
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| Abstract - #301093 |
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Title:
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Issues in Disability Statistics and Transportation Access
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Author(s):
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Kajal Lahiri*+ and Sharon Durant*+ and John Benison*+
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Affiliation(s):
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State University of New York, Albany and U.S. Department of Transportation and U.S. Department of Transportation
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Address:
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1400 Washington Avenue , Albany, New York, 12222, USA 400 Seventh Street, SW (Room 3430) , Washington , District of Columbia, 20590, USA 400 7th Street, SW, Room 2110, SVC-104, Washington, DC, 20590,
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Keywords:
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Structural models ; Disability programs ; Social Security Disability Insurance ; Matched Data ; Transportation access ; Data collection
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Abstract:
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The number of persons in this nation categorized as "disabled" increases as its population ages, as medical advances improve survival rates, as new disabling conditions emerge, as poverty continues, and as definitions change. This panel will share its work in the area of disability and facilitate a discussion about the issues concerning increased numbers of disabled persons. The first part of the discussion will focus on transportation issues disabled persons face due to the environment, the infrastructure, and the design of transportation vehicles. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), an agency of the US Department of Transportation (DOT), will describe its new national survey on transportation availability and use by persons with disabilities, for which the data collection is currently under way. The second part of the discussion will focus on statistical analyses concerning disability via social security data. The Social Security Administration (SSA) will report how it uses data from from various surveys on health impairments and socioeconomic status that were designed for the analysis of disability programs.
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- Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.
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