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The U.S. Census Bureau recently released the 2003 Annual Demographic Survey, also known as the March Supplement to the Current Population Survey. As discussed in multiple pages on this site, this survey is the basis for the employment rates in The New Worklife Expectancy Tables. As expected, based on the state of the
economy, the employment rates for all people dropped again in 2003.
In evaluating the impact of the new data, we looked at the 2003
employment rates in relation to the employment rates for the 10 years upon which
the 2002 edition of the worklife
expectancy tables was based (1992 to 2001). The first two graphs below show the employment rates from 1992 forward for men and women aged 25 to 64 by work disability status. While a decrease in employment rate can be seen in all cases for 2003, the rates are decreasing from the period’s highest rates. The decline for persons with a work disability, however, is steeper than that for their counterparts without a disability. Males with a "Not Severe" disability hit their second lowest level of employment in the 12-year period, while males with a "Severe" disability reached a new low for the period. The decline for females has been somewhat mitigated by the overall increase in employment for women.
The CPS data can be further evaluated by looking at the relationship between the employment rates of people with and without work disability. The next two graphs show the ratio of the rates for persons with a work disability to those without a work disability. For instance, in the first graph, males with a nonsevere work disability in 1992 had an employment rate that was approximately 74% of the employment for males without a work disability.
Although 2003 showed declines in employment for all groups of the US economy, the above graphs suggest that those with a work disability suffered steeper losses, and they have for the past several years. That is, in relationship to persons without disability, their employment rates dropped further. When looking at all people with a work disability, both men and women show a steady decline. Based on these trends, it appears that people with a work disability worked less and less relative to people without a work disability, despite the robust economy of the 1990s. People with a severe work disability did not share the same level of employment increase as people either without a work disability or with a nonsevere disability. Last modified: Friday October 10, 2003 09:32 AM |
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