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Disability Working Papers
Disability Working Papers
U.S. Census Bureau "Working Papers" have not undergone the review and editorial process generally accorded official Census Bureau publications. These working papers are intended to make results of Census Bureau research available to others and to encourage discussion on a variety of topics.
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- View the list of working papers from ACS on Disability
- View the list of working papers from CPS on Disability
- View the list of working papers from Decennial on Disability
- View the list of working papers from SIPP on Disability
Sorted by date of release (newest from top/left).
Families and Living Arrangements
Young Adult Disability Status and Living in a Parental Home
Young adults’ health difficulties linked to living in a parental home in 2010 and 2022.
Working Paper
Examining the Rise in Childhood Disability
This paper uses 2008-2019 ACS data to examine differences in disability rates between immigrant and non-immigrant children, and differences by race/ethnicity.
Working Paper
2022 American Community Survey Content Test Evaluation Report: Disability
Results from the 2022 ACS Content Test of the questions about disability.
Working Paper
The Demographics of Disability in the Family
This study describes the prevalence and characteristics of disability in the family, as well as implications of disability for family financial well-being.
Working Paper
Evaluating Health Insurance and Disability Estimates in the 2020 ACS
This paper examines the 2020 ACS 1-year estimates of health insurance and disability using production method weighting and entropy balanced weighting.
Working Paper
2022 ACS Content Test: Round 3 Cognitive Testing Results
This report summarizes results from Round 3 of cognitive testing, which gathered feedback from individuals in groups quarters facilities and Puerto Rico.
Working Paper
2022 ACS Content Test: Round 1 and Round 2 Cognitive Testing Results
This report summarizes results from two rounds of cognitive testing for the 2022 ACS Content Test.
Health
High School Equivalents and Disability Status: The Role of Context
This paper examines county-level variation in the relationship between GEDs and disability. (SEHSD Working Paper 2018-05)
Working Paper
Understanding Changes in the Disability Prevalence
This paper examines changes in the disability prevalence between 2011 and 2013 in the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
Working Paper
Health Conditions and the Population with Disabilities
The Relationship Between Health Conditions and the Core Disability Question Set, Presented at the 2017 Population Association of America Meeting.
Working Paper
Reporting of Days Sick by Proxy Status, Findings from the 2014 SIPP
This project looks at sick day reporting by proxy status.
Working Paper
A Portrait of Older Persons Working with a Disability
A substantial minority of older people with a disability continues to work past 62, yet there is little research on the occupations they work in.
Population
Commuting Patterns of Older Workers in the United States, 2008-2012
This paper describes commuting patterns of older workers in the United States, based on data from the 5-year 2008-2012 American Community Survey (ACS).
Working Paper
The Disability of Veterans
This analysis evaluates how the ACS question on VA service-connected disability status relates to the series of questions about functional disability status.
Working Paper
Health Statistics Handouts for Health Datapalooza 2014
Handouts about Health Statistics, Disability and Fertility, Health Care Industries, Health Insurance, HIV/AIDS, and Small Area Health Insurance Estimates.
Working Paper
Reliability and stability of the 6-question disability measure in SIPP
Researchers have long acknowledged that disability is a dynamic characteristic.
Working Paper
Improving Small Area Estimates of Disability: Combining ACS with SIPP
The SIPP is a nationally representative sample to estimate the sources and amounts of various data.
Health
Review of Changes to the Measurement of Disability in the 2008 ACS
In 2008, the American Community Survey (ACS) changed the way it asks about disability.
Population
Evaluation of New Content on the 2008 American Community Survey
This report evaluates how well ACS performed in its ability to capture quality data from new questions on service-connected disability and ratings.
Working Paper
Disability Status and the Characteristics of People in Group Quarters
The Census Bureau, using data from the ACS, currently publishes approximately eighty tables on AFF that describe both the prevalence of disability.
Working Paper
Working Beyond Retirement-Age
This presentation focuses on why people might be working beyond retirement-age.
Health
Evaluation Report Covering Disability
Results of proposed changes to the disability content as tested in the 2006 American Community Survey Content Test.
Working Paper
Report of Cognitive Research on Proposed ACS Disability Questions
This report documents the results of 5 rounds of cognitive interviewing conducted jointly by SRD and the National Center for Health Statistics.
Working Paper
Disability Data: An Examination of Effects of a 2003 Question Redesign
Initial results of the new layout and skip instructions for the disability items on the American Community Survey (ACS) mail-back paper questionnaire.
Working Paper
Disability Data From the American Community Survey
Population
Report 9: Comparing Social Characteristics with Census 2000
Compares results from Census 2000 to results from the American Community Survey for characteristics such as nativity, place of birth, language, and ancestry.
Working Paper
Counting People with Disabilities
Health
Counting People with Disabilities
Working Paper
Cognitive Evaluation of Disability Questions for 1998 Dress Rehearsal
The Center for Survey Methods Research conducted cognitive research as part of the development of the disability questions for the 1998 Dress Rehearsal.
Working Paper
Counting People With Disabilities
This research examines elements which cause the difference in the disability estimates between two sources.
Working Paper
Counting People with Disabilities
Comparison of disability data between Census 2000 and the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey with a focus on methodological differences.
Working Paper
Grandparents Living with Grandchildren in the United States
New data from the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey shows that 5.6 million grandparents were living in a household with one or more of their grandchildren.
Income and Poverty
OASDI Benefit and Year of Death based on Exact Match to SSA Benefits
Describes two items that are being made available for the 1990 and 1991 panels of the SIPP from the benefit records of the SSA.
Working Paper
Employment, Earnings, and Disability
This paper seeks to address four issues in employment, earnings, and disability.
Working Paper
An Assessment of SIPP Benefit Data Using Longitudinal Admin. Records
Using Social Security Administration administrative records matched to SIPP panels, we assess discrepancies in reports of benefit receipt and benefit amounts.
Health
Preliminary Estimates on Caregiving from Wave 7 of the 1996 SIPP
The purpose of the caregiving questions was to identify individuals who gave regular unpaid care to a family member or friend.
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