Census Hits Pause On Revising Disability Questions by Michelle Diament | November 15, 2024 A census taker visits a home. (U.S. Census Bureau) The U.S. Census Bureau will not make any changes to the ...

The answer to improving disability data collection is not to retain the current ACS-6 but to adopt tested questions that use a scaled response and to expand disability data collection on other ...

Ultimately, if the disability questions used by the Census accurately counted all of these groups, the Census should be counting more Americans as disabled, not fewer.

At an Omaha, Nebraska, festival this summer, new work explores the intersection of art, disability and technology, asking ...

In most organisations 15-20 per cent of employees will classify as disabled, they just aren’t telling you who they are, says ...

Census Bureau backpedals on changes to disabilities questions amid backlash The Census Bureau received more than 12,000 comments from Americans after notifying the public of the planned change ...

Census Weighs Overhaul Of Disability Questions by Michelle Diament | January 29, 2024 The U.S. Census Bureau says it received thousands of comments after proposing major changes to the way it counts ...

After public outcries, the U.S. Census Bureau says it's no longer moving ahead with proposed survey changes that could have shrunk a key estimated rate of disability in the U.S. by about 40%.

Had it been enacted, the Census Bureau would have changed from using the ACS-6 questions to the WG-SS questions to measure disability in the American Community Survey.

US US Census Bureau faces backlash over proposed changes to disability questions Critics argue that the proposed modifications could reduce the count of people with disabilities by almost half ...

The National Survey on Health and Disability (NSHD), which focuses on working-age adults ages 18–64, uses both question sets and contains other disability questions.

One family. Four generations of disability benefits. Will it continue?The number of homes with multiple recipients has risen, especially among the poor.