{"id":1721,"date":"2019-01-31T21:28:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T02:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:51","slug":"31365-show-me-the-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/31365-show-me-the-data\/","title":{"rendered":"31:365 | Show Me the Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always on the hunt for global, national, or local data to give context a topic. Recently, I&#8217;ve had on my to-do list finding data to provide\u00a0context to the various accessibility\u00a0projects we have under development. I came across the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilitystatistics.org\/\">Disability Statistics website<\/a>, an online resource for U.S. disability statistics managed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yti.cornell.edu\/\">Institute on Employment and Disability at Cornell University<\/a>.\u00a0They pull data from various sources, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilitystatistics.org\/sources-DS.cfm#acs\">American Community Survey<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilitystatistics.org\/sources-DS.cfm#census2000\">Census 2000<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilitystatistics.org\/sources-DS.cfm#cps\">Current Population Survey<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To say that it saved me a ton of work is the understatement of this Polar Vortex. In a few short clicks, I was able to find\u00a0that as of 2017:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the US, 40,714,800 (12.7%) out of the total 321,823,700 population had a hearing, visual, cognitive, ambulatory, self-care, or independent living disability.<\/li>\n<li>Drilling down to the various disability categories for the 785,400 working-age adults (18-64) without a high school diploma residing in IL (a target demographic for most adult education programs):\n<ol>\n<li>127,235 (16.2%) had one or more disabilities from the categories above<\/li>\n<li>19,635 (2.5%) had a hearing disability\u00a0(e.g., deaf or serious difficulty hearing)<\/li>\n<li>25,918 (3.3%) had a visual disability\u00a0(e.g., blind or serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses)<\/li>\n<li>62,046 (7.9%) had a\u00a0cognitive disability\u00a0(e.g., because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition, had a serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions)<\/li>\n<li>64,402 (8.2%) had an ambulatory disability (e.g., a serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For anyone looking for data that can be easily broken down to provide context to a problem, need, opportunity, etc., you know a data find like this is pure gold. Thank you to the good folks at Cornell&#8217;s Institute on Employment and Disability for providing this valuable service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always on the hunt for global, national, or local data to give context a topic. Recently, I&#8217;ve had on my to-do list finding data to provide\u00a0context to the various accessibility\u00a0projects we have under development. 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