1 September 2014

Understanding your disabled population through data

Making Disability Data Work for You: A Community Data Toolkit 
Department for Work and Pensions, September 2014
  • Part 1- how to find and use existing data that has been published at national, regional and local (LA) levels, and how to use it.
    • The eight main themes are Disability, Education, Employment, Income, Health and Wellbeing, Transport, Housing, and other disability data. Under each section there are links to key data sources.
    • Annex A - A summary of the datasets described in the report 
    • Annex C - describes key types of data, their advantages and disadvantages.
  • Part 2 - a basic guide to conducting social research to obtain data that is not available elsewhere.