Disability Statistics
Overview
The DisabilityStatistics.org website aims to advance disability inclusion by providing easy access to important data. People using the site can easily create and save maps, charts, and tables of national, state, and local disability statistics. They can copy from the site to put this information into reports, presentations, and other documents that they use in their work.
The website also offers a variety of tools and resources for researchers interested in performing secondary data analysis.
Project activities
- Video introducton to using the site
- Annual Disability Status Reports (state and national)
- American Community Survey (ACS) estimates for the United States overall, or broken down by state, county, or congressional district
- EEOC Charge Data summaries
- Rehabilitation Dataset Directory
- Rehabilitation Research Cross-dataset Variable Catalog
- Disability and Compensation Variables Catalog
- Disability Data Source Guides
More information
DisabilityStatistics.org Offers Visualization and Local Data
Funding history
DisabilityStatistics.org is currently developed and maintained by the Northeast ADA Center. The Northeast ADA Center is a member of the ADA National Network funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grantnumber 90DP0088).
Original funding came from the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Demographics and Statistics (StatsRRTC) funded to the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability in the ILR School at Cornell University by the US Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (grant No. H133B031111). Additional funding came from the Center for Large Data Research & Data Sharing in Rehabilitation (CLDR) at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) funded by NIH.
Contact information
DisabilityStatistics@cornell.edu