Employment data
ICI has collected data on day and employment services since 1988 and is recognized as an important source of disability research. These research briefs, policy papers, monographs, and case studies describe key findings as services and outcomes change.Related projects
Publications related to Employment data
StateData: The National Report on Employment Services and Outcomes (2009)
Policy shifts over the past 20 years have created an agenda for sustained commitment to integrated employment for individuals with disabilities. But despite these clear intentions, unemployment of individuals with disabilities continues to be a significant and pressing public policy concern. Recent analysis using the Current Population Survey (CPS) for September 2009 estimates that 28 percent of working-age adults with disabilities are employed, compared with 70 percent of people without disabilities, and CPS data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests that the number of workers with disabilities has dropped at three times the rate of workers without disabilities since October 2008. For people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD) the disparity in labor market participation increases.
Work Incentives and SSI Recipients with Intellectual Disabilities
Data Note No. 23, 2009
Congress has enacted a number of work incentive programs for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients with disabilities after concluding additional incentives were necessary to help individuals become self-supporting.
StateData: The National Report on Employment Services and Outcomes, 2008 (book)
For the past 20 years, Access to Integrated Employment, the national data collection project on day and employment outcomes, funded by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, has described the nature of day and employment services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD). This report provides national level and state level statistics over a twenty-year period from several data sets that address the status of employment and economic self-sufficiency for individuals with ID/DD. Data sources include: ICI’s Survey of State ID/DD Agencies; Vocational Rehabilitation; the American Community Survey; and the Social Security Administration. State population statistics are included from the U.S. Department of Labor.
Persons Served in Community Mental Health Programs and Employment
Data Note 17, 2008
Data set: FY2006 Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) Uniform
Timeframe from Application to Closure in Integrated Employment for Vocational Rehabilitation Customers with Developmental Disabilities
Data Note 14, 2008
This data note describes the integrated employment timeframe from application to closure for people with developmental disabilities (i.e., mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and autism) whose cases were closed by VR in 2006 (N = 27,579). VR typically closes cases when applicants have been in employment for at least 90 days.
