Publication Date
Dec 31, 1994
Most adults with disabilities are in their working (not their elderly) years. According to the 1990 Survey of Income and Program Participation, among the civilian non-institutionalized population, 20,266,000 adults in their working years (18-64) and 15,413,000 elderly persons (65+) reported a disability. Disability rates were lower for the working-age (13.7%) than for the elderly (49%), but the enormous size of the World War II "baby boom" resulted in large numbers of people aged 18-64 with disabilities. Written as part of the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association. (22 PDF pages)