The report was released on March 14, 2012 and may be viewed at https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/cb12-51.html. The report is based on statistics between 2008 and 2010, which may be viewed at https://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/acsbr09-12.pdf. The data show that overall, non-disabled people were about three times more likely to have jobs, and that disabled people accounted for 9.4 million of the 155.9 million (or 6.0%) of the civilian labor force.
The report contains several interesting breakdowns. For example, Table 1 shows that more than 50% of disabled employees worked at the following four jobs:
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Table 1
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Table 2 shows the jobs with the highest number (and percentages) of employees for jobs with the highest number of disabled workers.
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Table 2
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Table 3 shows the disability rates among occupations with 100,000 or more people.
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Table 3
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Table 4 shows the employment numbers for janitors and building cleaners, which were the most common jobs for disabled non-Hispanic whites, disable non-Hispanic blacks, and disabled Hispanics.
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Table 4
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Table 5 shows the employment numbers for the three most common jobs for disabled men.
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Table 5
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Table 6 shows the employment numbers for the three most common jobs for disabled women.
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Table 6
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Two other points to note in the report are that (1) 46 percent of disabled workers worked full time, year-round compared with 62 percent of non-disabled workers, and (2) People with disabilities accounted for 6.3 percent of the male civilian labor force and 5.7 percent of the female civilian labor force.
The employment tabulations from 2008 to 2010 may be found at http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml?refresh=t.
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of Technology
