Disability Facts
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Disability Facts
There are a growing number of people with disabilities in the UK and they are still disadvantaged when it comes to their involvement in the workplace and as business-owners Engage looks at some facts:
Generally
n There are approximately 10 million disabled adults in the UK which represents around 18 % of the UK population:
Numbers of Disabled People in UK
Source: National Statistics – 2001 Census
18 %
82 %
And Women...
n 19 % of the working age population in the UK are disabled women
( Source: Key indicators of women’ s position in Britain, Nov 2005)
n 51 % of disabled women in the UK are economically inactive.
( Source: UK National Statistics,“ Economic activity status of disabled people: by sex’, 2002)
n 46 % of disabled women in the UK are employed and 3 % of disabled women in the UK are unemployed.
( Source: UK National Statistics,“ Economic activity status of disabled people: by sex’, 2002)
Globally
n According to Michael Paciello in his book‘ Web accessibility for People with Disabilities’, there are approximately: n Non – Disabled People( 48.2 million) n Disabled People( 10.6 million)
n In 2005, there were over 6.8 million disabled people who were of working age representing 19 % of the working population.( Source: Labour Force Survey, June 2005)
n There has been an increase in the number of working age people reporting a disability from 6.2 million in Spring 1998 to just under 7 million in Spring 2005.
( Source: ONS Labour Force Survey, Spring 2005)
n A disabled person is around three times as likely to lack an educational qualification but want to work as non-disabled people.( Source: Joseph Rowntree Foundation –‘ Monitoring
Poverty and Social Exclusion’ in the UK- 2005 report) l 500 million disabled people worldwide l 52.6 million disabled people in USA l 37 million disabled people in EU( excluding UK) l 4.2 million disabled people in Canada l 3.7 million disabled people in Australia
n Businesses with a majority of disabled owners or partners comprise only 0.5 % of the business stock in London. When compared to the 1.5 % of the population in London receiving an attendance allowance in 2003,, this measure demonstrates that there is considerable under representation of disabled people among London’ s business owning population.( Source: London Annual Business Survey 2004)
Disability – A Definition
n“ Physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on the ability to carry out normal day to day activities”( Source: Disability Discrimination Act s. 1) engage ISSUE TWO 2006