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Disability statistics
UK population
- Disability Statistics: Summary of statistical estimates of the numbers of disabled people in the general population.
- National Statistics: Chapter 3 of this document gives a brief breakdown of the numbers of disabled people of working age in the population by region.
- Labour Force Survey: Most recently undertaken in the summer of 2001. 6.7 million people of working age are disabled.
- OPCS: Survey carried out between 1985 and 1988, estimated 14.2% of the adult population of the UK are disabled.
- RNIB research on the number of people with visual impairment: estimated in 1996 that approximately one million people are registerable as blind or partially sighted.
- RNID statistics on the number of people with hearing impairment: estimated that there are 8.7 million people with hearing impairment in the UK.
- The National Statistics Online website contains a comprehensive database of statistical resources about all aspects of the UK population and disability.
UK Education
- Department for Education and Skills: Statistics on Special Educational Needs in schools in England for 2001.
- HESA On-line Information Service: figures on numbers of disabled students in higher education.
[These links were originally collated by Mike Wray for the DEMOS website.]
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