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| The dynamics of being disabled | | Author(s) | Tania Burchardt |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2000 |
| Pages | 31 pp (CASEpaper 36) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Mental disorder ; Social policy ; Longitudinal surveys ; Methodology. |
| Annotation | Government policies on disability - and criticism of them - rest in part on an understanding of the circumstances of disabled people informed by cross-sectional survey data, dividing people into "disabled" and "non-disabled". This paper uses two approaches to longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to demonstrate the significance of dynamic measures of disability, with a focus on people of working age, given the emphasis in current policy debates. The first approach is to determine the prevalence of different "disability trajectories" and compare this to the estimates of disability generated by a static measure. The second approach concentrates on those who become disabled during the course of the panel, and examines the distribution of durations of disability. In both cases, the results are analysed by gender and age group. Next, literature on dynamics of disability is reviewed, followed by discussion of the two approaches to data used in the study and the results. A final section considers the implications, first, for measurement and analysis of disability in large-scale studies, and second, for benefits and employment policy. This research forms part of a project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000303204 B |
| Classmark | BN: E: TM2: 3J: 3D |
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