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Activity Number: 221
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Committee on Statistics and Disability
Abstract - #307683
Title: Identifying the Population with Disabilities: A Comparison of Current Survey Estimates
Author(s): Andrew J. Houtenville*+ and S. Antonio Ruiz-Quintanilla and Robert Weathers
Companies: Cornell University and Cornell University and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Address: 303B ILR Extension Building, Ithaca, NY, 14853,
Keywords: Disability ; Employment ; Poverty ; Surveys ; Population ; Trends
Abstract:

In the United States, there is no single, universally accepted definition of disability in either the government programs that serve people with disabilities or among federal surveys. This presentation provides an overview of the national data sources that allow for the identification of the population with disabilities: ACS, NHIS, SIPP, CPS-ASEC, Census 2000, and other data sources. The strengths and weakness of each data source will be discussed, with a particular focus on the survey items used to identify the population with disabilities. Estimates derived from these data sources will be compared, including estimate of the size of the population with disabilities, the disability prevalence rate, and employment and poverty rate for people with and without disabilities. In addition, current efforts to design new sets of disability survey items and the SIPP/DEWS will be discussed.

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