Disability: data introduction
The following disability data pages focus on:
- the percentage of adults of working age in receipt of Employment Support Allowance (ESA) (replaced incapacity benefit (IB) and severe disability allowance (SDA) paid on incapacity grounds in October 2008).
- estimates of the percentage of adults in Scotland reporting that they have a long-standing illness, health problem or disability.
- estimates of the percentage of adults in Scotland reporting that they are not in good health.
Please refer to the key data sources page for an indication of where additional disability related information may be accessed.
Note also that some relevant data (e.g. adults unable to work due to illness/disability, disability living allowance, attendance allowance claimants, long-term limiting illness, self-assessed health classified as 'not good') are included within ScotPHO's New Community Health Profiles (held within this website).
The table below shows the dimensions and geographies for which disability data are presented within the data pages which follow.
Table 1: Data for Scotland presented in the Disability data pages
| Data dimensions/ geographies |
Adults unable to work due to illness/ disability |
Long-standing illness, health problem or disability |
Self assessed health |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data presented? (Y=yes; N=no) | |||
| By gender |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| By age group |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| By deprivation group |
N |
Y |
Y |
| By NHS board area |
N |
Y |
Y |
| By local authority area |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| By community health partnership (CHP) area | |||
| Time trend |
Y |
N |
N |
| National target |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
| Comparison with UK/GB |
N |
N |
N |
| International comparison |
N |
N |
N |
Please note: If you require the most up-to-date data available, please check the data sources directly as new data may have been published since these data pages were last updated. Although we endeavour to ensure that the data pages are kept up-to-date, there may be a time lag between new data being published and the relevant ScotPHO web pages being updated.
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