2004 Annual Disability Status Reports
Author: StatsRRTCDate: Oct 14, 2005
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About the Annual Disability Status Reports
The Annual Disability Status Reports provide policy makers, disability advocates, reporters, and the public with a summary of the most recent demographic and economic statistics on the working-age (ages 21-64) population with disabilities. They contain information on the population size, prevalence, employment, earnings, poverty, household income, home ownership, and activity limitations of working-age people with disabilities, as well as the composition of this population by age, race, gender, and educational attainment. Comparisons are made to working-age people without disabilities, across types of disabilities, and to the previous year. Additional statistics by state are available at www.DisabilityStatistics.org.
The Status Reports look at the working-age population (21-64) because the employment gap between people with and without disabilities is a major focus of government programming and advocacy efforts. Furthermore, employment is a key factor in the social integration and economic self-sufficiency of working-age people with disabilities. Future Status Reports will address the school- and retirement-age populations and eventually expand to education and health-related issues.
The estimates in the 2004 Disability Status Reports are based on American
Community Survey (ACS) data—a survey of the U.S. Census Bureau designed
to replace the decennial census long form. In future years, we hope to add
information derived from other data sources, such as the Current Population
Survey (CPS) and National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). See ACS User Guide
on our web site, www.DisabilityStatistics.org for additional disability-related
information in the ACS. A Census Bureau report, www.census.gov/prod/
2004pubs/p60-226.pdf , provides a broader discussion of the ACS.
The estimates in these reports are based on responses from a sample of the population and may differ from actual values because of sampling variability or other factors. As a result, apparent differences between the estimates for two or more groups may not be statistically significant. Asterisks (*) indicate that the terms "increased" and "decreased" reflect statistically significant changes at the 90-percent confidence level.
