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The employment of disabled people: background information and methodology

Information about the employment of disabled people statistics, including purpose and status of the statistics and methodology.

From:

Department for Work and Pensions

Published:

24 March 2020

Last updated:

10 November 2025

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10 November 2025
Updated 'The employment of disabled people: background information and methodology' by adding 4 new sections: 'Linked Family Resources Survey (FRS) and Registration and Population Interaction Dataset (RAPID) data', 'Labour Market Types', 'Limitations of the FRS-RAPID linked data analysis' and 'Not in employment, education or training (NEET)'. Removed section 'Long-term sickness absence'. Also, updated other information throughout.
5 November 2024
Published a revised version of the background information and methodology. The latest release of employment of disabled people statistics was published today (5 November 2024).
26 October 2023
Published a revised version of the background information and methodology. The latest release of employment of disabled people statistics (also published today, 26 October 2023).
26 January 2023
Revised to support the latest release of employment of disabled people statistics (also published today, 26 January 2023). The main change is a revised scenario 1 in the section about analysing components of change.
4 November 2021
Revised to support the latest release of employment of disabled people statistics (also published today, 4 November 2021).
24 March 2020
First published.

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Summary estimates of the number of disabled people in employment are published regularly by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) as part of their ‘Labour Market Overview, UK’ series. The employment of disabled people statistics give a more detailed analysis and break downs of the summary estimates.