Disability and the Disability Discrimination Act
In-House Report No. 114
By: Olga Evans and Deborah Lader, Office for National Statistics
The main aim of this survey was to provide an up-to-date picture of the experiences of disabled people in their day-to day lives and of the level of awareness (among both disabled and non-disabled people) of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA 1995) and the Disability Rights Commission (DRC). This report also provides an opportunity to compare this picture with that obtained from a similar survey conducted in 1996.
Both the 1996 and the 2001 surveys asked questions about the prevalence and nature of disability (Chapter 4); the experience of difficulties in accessing a range of leisure activities and private services (Chapters 5); and awareness of the DDA and the DRC (Chapter 7).
The 2001 survey also included questions covering: a refinement to the definition of disability (Chapter 4), the experience of difficulties in accessing health care and local authority services (Chapter 6); awareness of the legal position on situations of potential discrimination (Chapter 7); and response to the experience of discrimination or difficulty in accessing services (Chapter 8).
For the 2001 survey, data were collected, by face-to-face interview, from a stratified random sample of 6,922 individuals aged 16 years and over living in private households in Great Britain, using the National Statistics Omnibus Survey. Characteristics of the sample are detailed in Chapter 3, but what is important to note in terms of comparing the 1996 and 2001 survey data in this summary is that the samples in each survey were broadly similar in their composition – in terms of age, sex, country of domicile (England, Scotland and Wales), marital status, and employment status.
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