Another Perspective: Capturing the Working-Age Population With Disabilities in Survey Measures

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Article Publication Date: 
11/7/2014
Summary: 
A new criticism of the variety in measures serving to identify the disabled population in the American Community Survey (ACS) has been raised by Burkhauser, Houtenville, and Tennant. This article provides another perspective on the relationship of the current ACS measure and a work limitation measure demonstrating the complications introduced by combining measures that represent two different metrics and introducing an unmeasured environmental element.
Article Author: 
Altman, Barbara M.
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Journal of Disability Policy Studies
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American Community Service; work limitation; role of environment; disability measurement; Social Security Disability Insurance; Supplemental Security Insurance; working-age population;

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Barbara Altman
b.altman@verizon.net

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/65856