Miscellaneous reports on various disability issues from my files.
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A Guide to Disability Statistics from the National Health Interview Survey – Disability Supplement 2006 — The Cornell StatsRRTC seeks to bridge the divide between the sources of disability data and the users of disability statistics. One product of this effort is a set of User Guides to national survey data that collect information on the disability population.
Attitudes and Disabled People: Issues for Discussion Victor Finkelstein (1980, World Rehabilitation Fund, Inc) — Historical reference
Children and Youth with Special Needs Summary Report of Findings (2001) Canadian Council on Social Development — Researchers and Canadian groups that advocate on behalf of children and youth with disabilities have been attempting to determine how many children live with special needs, and what impact this has on their ability to participate fully in society.
Comparing incomes when needs differ: Equivalisation for the extra costs of disability in the UK (2003) — Equivalisation of incomes for household size and composition is accepted practice when measuring poverty and inequality; adjustments to take account of other variations in needs are rarely made. This paper explores the financial implications of one possible source of additional needs: disability.
Equivalence scales: rationales, uses and assumptions Jenny Chanfreau and Tania Burchardt September 2008 — In poverty and income inequality research, equivalence scales are used to adjust for the relative cost of living, or assumed standard of living, of households of different sizes and composition.
GUIDELINES for Interviewing People with Disabilities -2005
Lessons from the Disability Knowledge and Research Programme — The Disability Knowledge and Research Programme (Disability KaR), funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), is one of the most ambitious, wide-ranging and innovative projects on disability and development ever carried out.
Past labour market responses to job losses and the potential impact of welfare reform in the current recession Paul Sissons 2009 — The job losses which occurred as a result of deindustrialisation in the 1980s and 1990s, fed into a large growth in male economic inactivity, and particularly into an increased number of men claiming Invalidity, subsequently, Incapacity Benefits (IB).
Sick Societies? Trends in disability benefits in post-industrial welfare states – by Peter A Kemp, Annika Sundén, Bernhard Bakker Tauritz (eds.) Published in 2006 International Social Security Association — Despite signficant improvements in population health, many welfare states have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of people receiving long-term sickness and disability or incapacity benefits over the past two decades. This paradox has become one of the most pressing and yet intractable problems facing the welfare state.