The Disability Data Landscape
Year: 2009
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory."-Lord Kelvin 1 "If you are not counted, you don't count."-Cyndi Jones, Center for an Accessible SocietyEfforts to provide statistics on the number and status of workingage people with disabilities have a history of being fragmented and sporadic.As a group, they are often overlooked in mainstream discussions of the latest statistics on employment, income, poverty, and other measures of the status of the population.In contrast, government agencies routinely compile and report such statistics for groups defined by sex, age, race, ethnicity, and marital status.Indeed, one of the most frequently cited statistical reports on the socioeconomic status of the U.S. population-the U.
Author: Robert R. Weathers II
Institution: United States Social Security Administration
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W1537594077