A CSO Frontier Series Output- What is this?
This report, ‘Income, Employment and Welfare Analysis of People with a Disability 2019’ analyses data on people with a disability enumerated on Census Night 2016 and provides new insights into their employment, income, education, health and housing.
Note: for the purpose of this report a person with a disability has been classified as someone who responded 'yes' to any of the 7 categories in Census 2016 question 16 on long-lasting conditions or 'yes' to any of the four categories in Census 2016 question 17 on difficulties. For more information on people with a disability and the Census 2016 see the publication Census of Population 2016 – Profile 9 Health, Disability and Carers.
The requirement to publish data and statistics on the lives of persons with disabilities is provided for in Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). Statistics are necessary to set targets and to monitor and evaluate progress in reaching the goals of the UNCRPD. However, statistics on disability should always be supported by qualitative information which captures the lived experiences of people with disabilities.
Following discussions with the National Disability Authority (NDA), the CSO agreed to explore the potential of linking administrative data from Revenue and the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and others with CSO-held datasets to provide information on the life of people with disability in Ireland. The NDA have worked in collaboration with the CSO on this report. The NDA assisted in this report, however all statistics and reporting was completed by the CSO.
The National Data Infrastructure (NDI) plays an integral part in facilitating the CSO to develop new and improved statistical products for the benefit of the citizen and policymaker. The core concept of the NDI involves the collection, maintenance and storage, on all public sector data holdings, of the associated PPSN, Eircode and Unique Business Identifier (UBI, to be developed) whenever they are relevant to Public Sector Body transactions with customers. This supports the development of targeted policy interventions. What is needed to achieve this, in most cases, is collection of the PPSN and home Eircode in transactions with people and the UBI and business Eircode in transactions with businesses.
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This publication is categorised as a CSO Frontier Series Output. Particular care must be taken when interpreting the statistics in this release. A report in the CSO Frontier Series may use new methods which are under development and/or data sources which may be incomplete, for example new administrative data sources. Publishing a report under the Frontier Series allows the CSO to provide useful new information to users and get informed feedback on these new methods and outputs while at the same time making sure that that the limitations are well explained and understood. In using the increasingly varied sources of data available, the CSO must ensure that we continue to protect and secure data. Our aim is to ensure that citizens can live in an informed society while at the same time ensuring adherence to all relevant data protection legislation. The analysis looks at individuals who reported a disability on Census night (24 April 2016) and links them to pseudonymised administrative data sources, including employment data from the Revenue Commissioners (2019), welfare data from the Department of Social Protection (2019), education data from the Department of Education (2016) and the Higher Education Authority(2019), social housing data from the Department of Housing (2019) and health support data from the Health Service Executive (HSE) (2019). Of the 643,131 people who reported a disability on Census night, 612,957 (95.3%) were linked to pseudonymised administrative data sources. This report presents a statistical overview of these 612,957 linked individuals. The age and sex profile of people with a disability included in this study are compared with all people with a disability in the 2016 Census in Figure 1.1. An assumption is made that if a person self-reported a disability in 2016, they would also report a disability in the following years considered in this report. Those who have acquired a disability after 24 April 2016 are also not included in this report. As well as the strict legal protections set out in the Statistics Act, 1993*, and other existing regulations, we are committed to protecting individual privacy and all identifiable information from each of the data sources used in our analysis, such as name, date of birth and addresses, are removed before use and only anonymised statistical aggregates are produced. For further information on the data sources, linking procedures and limitations of this report, see here for further detail. |
| Age | Linked Male | Not Linked Male | Linked Female | Not Linked Female |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100+ | -51 | -14 | 302 | 31 |
| 99 | -49 | -4 | 207 | 11 |
| 98 | -66 | -7 | 294 | 14 |
| 97 | -121 | -19 | 426 | 36 |
| 96 | -188 | -17 | 648 | 73 |
| 95 | -260 | -33 | 913 | 84 |
| 94 | -354 | -23 | 1180 | 109 |
| 93 | -536 | -41 | 1500 | 136 |
| 92 | -651 | -46 | 1854 | 144 |
| 91 | -871 | -49 | 2290 | 172 |
| 90 | -1101 | -64 | 2638 | 200 |
| 89 | -1326 | -87 | 2988 | 224 |
| 88 | -1613 | -73 | 3288 | 224 |
| 87 | -1894 | -105 | 3667 | 230 |
| 86 | -2200 | -125 | 3972 | 286 |
| 85 | -2559 | -134 | 4223 | 251 |
| 84 | -2671 | -119 | 4365 | 236 |
| 83 | -3014 | -136 | 4469 | 287 |
| 82 | -3174 | -153 | 4690 | 252 |
| 81 | -3374 | -146 | 4641 | 254 |
| 80 | -3455 | -156 | 4810 | 252 |
| 79 | -3560 | -142 | 4655 | 252 |
| 78 | -3640 | -135 | 4580 | 220 |
| 77 | -3748 | -122 | 4649 | 239 |
| 76 | -3744 | -141 | 4468 | 201 |
| 75 | -3626 | -158 | 4193 | 204 |
| 74 | -3900 | -173 | 4234 | 180 |
| 73 | -3968 | -175 | 4385 | 191 |
| 72 | -4159 | -155 | 4381 | 179 |
| 71 | -4284 | -167 | 4469 | 192 |
| 70 | -4506 | -172 | 4501 | 207 |
| 69 | -4684 | -201 | 4559 | 201 |
| 68 | -4718 | -183 | 4589 | 191 |
| 67 | -4752 | -219 | 4561 | 206 |
| 66 | -4769 | -210 | 4584 | 249 |
| 65 | -5176 | -263 | 4613 | 255 |
| 64 | -5111 | -236 | 4775 | 218 |
| 63 | -5328 | -255 | 4840 | 229 |
| 62 | -4916 | -234 | 4756 | 184 |
| 61 | -4990 | -208 | 4740 | 215 |
| 60 | -4875 | -203 | 4577 | 224 |
| 59 | -4733 | -209 | 4797 | 210 |
| 58 | -4656 | -180 | 4766 | 213 |
| 57 | -4581 | -190 | 4470 | 204 |
| 56 | -4371 | -200 | 4639 | 204 |
| 55 | -4450 | -174 | 4760 | 182 |
| 54 | -4213 | -183 | 4468 | 162 |
| 53 | -4177 | -155 | 4525 | 190 |
| 52 | -4131 | -156 | 4435 | 173 |
| 51 | -3929 | -177 | 4286 | 163 |
| 50 | -3773 | -146 | 4198 | 162 |
| 49 | -3744 | -147 | 3882 | 147 |
| 48 | -3679 | -137 | 4137 | 135 |
| 47 | -3627 | -150 | 3882 | 124 |
| 46 | -3599 | -158 | 3922 | 142 |
| 45 | -3676 | -142 | 3894 | 125 |
| 44 | -3590 | -135 | 3904 | 122 |
| 43 | -3515 | -141 | 3891 | 107 |
| 42 | -3422 | -135 | 3695 | 123 |
| 41 | -3282 | -127 | 3721 | 103 |
| 40 | -3137 | -149 | 3496 | 95 |
| 39 | -3086 | -135 | 3479 | 108 |
| 38 | -3111 | -135 | 3414 | 116 |
| 37 | -2992 | -185 | 3519 | 181 |
| 36 | -3034 | -185 | 3464 | 179 |
| 35 | -2972 | -174 | 3364 | 173 |
| 34 | -2831 | -200 | 3181 | 164 |
| 33 | -2655 | -202 | 3093 | 140 |
| 32 | -2531 | -199 | 2909 | 163 |
| 31 | -2335 | -157 | 2761 | 164 |
| 30 | -2224 | -193 | 2596 | 180 |
| 29 | -2201 | -216 | 2485 | 134 |
| 28 | -2109 | -179 | 2396 | 128 |
| 27 | -2050 | -171 | 2234 | 166 |
| 26 | -2091 | -180 | 2187 | 154 |
| 25 | -2173 | -225 | 2179 | 206 |
| 24 | -2141 | -178 | 2220 | 176 |
| 23 | -2174 | -229 | 2044 | 219 |
| 22 | -2238 | -293 | 2126 | 294 |
| 21 | -2247 | -315 | 2230 | 365 |
| 20 | -2491 | -301 | 2293 | 379 |
| 19 | -2650 | -273 | 2462 | 314 |
| 18 | -2967 | -169 | 2647 | 153 |
| 17 | -2910 | -165 | 2474 | 107 |
| 16 | -2964 | -160 | 2269 | 116 |
| 15 | -3220 | -140 | 2265 | 87 |
| 14 | -3262 | -114 | 2100 | 71 |
| 13 | -3216 | -88 | 1999 | 62 |
| 12 | -3273 | -98 | 1879 | 43 |
| 11 | -3208 | -57 | 1829 | 38 |
| 10 | -3138 | -63 | 1782 | 37 |
| 9 | -3253 | -53 | 1712 | 42 |
| 8 | -3237 | -56 | 1594 | 52 |
| 7 | -3004 | -50 | 1558 | 28 |
| 6 | -2815 | -41 | 1498 | 32 |
| 5 | -2418 | -37 | 1347 | 24 |
| 4 | -1998 | -28 | 1176 | 21 |
| 3 | -1557 | -34 | 929 | 18 |
| 2 | -1050 | -22 | 698 | 14 |
| 1 | -686 | -25 | 554 | 15 |
| 0 | -549 | -33 | 441 | 30 |
| 101 | 15 | 2 | 62 | 8 |
| 102 | 6 | 1 | 64 | 2 |
| 103 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 3 |
| 104 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 3 |
| 105 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |
| 106 | 3 | |||
| 107 | 3 | 1 | ||
| 108 | 1 | 1 |
A respondent can choose more than one disability type in Question 16 on the Census form. Table 1.2 shows the average number of disabilities a person indicated in Census 2016. The average of all people with a disability is 1.6 for males and 1.7 for females. The average number of disabilities increased with age.
In this report, a person will be included in each disability type that they indicated in Census 2016. Therefore, a person may appear more than once in each table with the full breakdown of disability types. In most tables there is a row 'All people with a disability'. This should be considered the total row, which will not equal the total sum of the disability types.
Income and Employment - for working age (15-64) people with a disability
Education
Health
Housing
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