| Usual Opposition Position |
| Some feel that the presence in the CPS survey of people with a temporary
disability renders the data invalid for studying the effects of permanent
disability on employment. |
| VEI Position |
| For the existence of temporary disability within the CPS to distort worklife expectancy, one must assume
that persons with temporary disability have a significantly different rate
of employment during the disability period than persons with permanent
disability.
Gibson
(2001) used CPS data from 1996 through 1999 to study changes in
disability status from year to year and concluded
that potential exists for some segment of the disabled categories to be
only “temporarily†disabled. However,
the potential for distortion of the overall rates of participation and employment was minimal. |
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