Annual Disability Statistics Compendium: 2009

2010

Andrew Houtenville
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603-862-3999

Statistics are a powerful tool?in research, policymaking, program evaluation, and advocacy. They are used to frame the issues, monitor current circumstances and progress, judge the effectiveness of policies and programs, make projections about the future, and predict the costs of potential policy changes. Statistics about the population with disabilities and about the government programs that serve people with disabilities?disability statistics?are often difficult to find. Numerous government agencies generate and publish disability statistics, and as result, disability statistics are scattered and buried in documents and Web sites all across the Federal government. The Disability Statistics Compendium is the first of what is intended to be an annual publication of statistics on people with disabilities and government programs that serve the population with disabilities and is modeled after the Statistical Abstracts of the United States, published yearly by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Compendium is designed to serve as a reference guide to government publications. At the bottom of each table, the source of data appearing in each table is presented. These referenced sources contain additional statistical and information about the way the data were collected and the statistics were generated.

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