A Guide to Disability Statistics from the National Health Interview -- Disability Supplement

Contributing Organization(s): Urban Institute


Author(s)/Creator(s): Elaine Maag

Publishing Date: 2006-07-10

Issue Areas: Disability Issues; Health and Medicine

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File info: 95 pages; 1.6 MB file size

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This User Guide contains information on the National Health Interview Survey -- Disability supplement (NHIS-D) that was fielded in 1994 and 1995.

The User Guides provide disability data users with:


  1. An easily accessible guide to the disability information available in the major nationally representative surveys;
  2. A set of estimates on persons with disabilities from the dataset, including estimates on the size of the population, the prevalence rate, the employment rate and measures of economic well-being;
  3. A description of the unique features of the survey; and
  4. A set of estimates that highlight the unique features of the survey.


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Intended Audience: Advocates; Policy Professionals; Researchers

Type/Format: Evaluation; Survey

Language code: English

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