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From Disabled World Disability Statistics Florida By Sandi Baker - Visual Innovation and Solutions
In a previous article I wrote about the newest disability statistics in the United States. We will take a brief look at them, with some of them being in Florida as this is my principal place of office. (Note that we do serve worldwide.) Also we will discuss what the importance is of these statistics. Statistics: HOUSEHOLD INCOME IN FLORIDA: The median household income among households with men and women with a work limitation in Florida in averages adjusted for inflation to 2007 dollars: Year 2000-2004 2007 Dollars 30,300 Year 2001-2005 2007 Dollars 30,600 Year 2002-2006 2007 Dollars 30,800 Year 2003-2007 2007 Dollars 31,100 Overall Rates: Household Income: Without a Disability $61,000 With a Disability $38,400 Difference $22,600 Poverty Rates: In the United States: Without a Disability 9.0% With a Disability 24.7% Poverty Rates in Florida: POVERTY NUMBER IN FLORIDA: The number of men and women, aged 21-64 with a work limitation in Florida who lived in families with incomes below the poverty line in: Year 2000-2004 Number 195,000 Year 2001-2005 Number 198,000 Year 2002-2006 Number 192,000 Year 2003-2007 Number 200,000 Employment: Florida-22.2% Florida Annual Earnings-$32,300 Florida Poverty Rate-21.8% In the United States there is a 42.8% gap in Employment! The valuable information that is in these statistics has several factors for those that serve in the field of the disability population whether that is health care or in a separate agency. What are they? Characteristics of complex processes in disability facts and figures across the board Characterization of issues Verification and support of existing evidence Relevance of patterns that may be unknown and their associations As professionals we need to understand these matters for these particulars: Evaluations of our programs and their impacts Evaluation of outcome of programs Planning of programs These statistics aid us with the provisions of source material of the disabled population. Reference: Cornell University. 2008. 2007 Disability Status Report. Author: Sandi Baker Visual Innovations & Solutions. I am the Co-Founder of Visual Innovations & Solutions. We are a Non-Profit Foundation dedicated to providing visual aids and technology to the visually impaired and disabled. Please visit us at: http://visualinnovations.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disabled World (www.disabled-world.com) provides a large range of worldwide health and disability information. Coming Events related to health and disability can be posted at http://disabilityevents.disabled-world.com Disabled World also operates a worldwide Disability Community at http://community.disabled-world.com © Copyright 2009 - Disabled World |