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<p>The disability employment rate gap is the difference between the employment rate
of disabled people and the employment rate of non-disabled people.</p><p> </p><p>One
way to measure the gap is using the Labour Force Survey (LFS). The latest data available
from the LFS relates to January 2015 to March 2015. The latest LFS figures are set
out in the table below. This table shows the disability employment rate gap along
with the disability employment rate gaps for people who have difficulty in hearing
and those who have difficulty in seeing. Data on those who are deafblind is not collected
on the Labour Force Survey.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Main
health condition</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Employment rate</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Employment
rate gap</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All working age people who are not classified
as Equality Act core disabled and/or work-limiting disabled (excluding those who did
not state their health situation)</p></td><td><p>79.3%</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All
working age<sup>3</sup> disabled people<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>46.3%</p></td><td><p>32.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working
age disabled people<sup>4</sup> who report their main health problem as difficulty
in seeing</p></td><td><p>45.7%</p></td><td><p>33.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working
age disabled people<sup>4</sup> who report their main health problem as difficulty
in hearing</p></td><td><p>64.9%</p></td><td><p>14.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working
age disabled people<sup>4</sup> who report their main health problem as being deafblind<sup>5</sup></p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1 Estimates were obtained from the latest Labour Force
Survey (LFS) and relate to January 2015 to March 2015.</p><p>2 Percentages are rounded
to one decimal place.</p><p>3 Men and women aged 16-64.</p><p>4 In April 2013, changes
were made to the wording of the disability questions in order to bring the LFS into
line with the Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonised Standards for questions
on disability and also enable the LFS estimates to be consistent with the definitions
used in 2010 Equality Act. As with all new questions, they are subject to ONS monitoring
of responses for several quarters, and should therefore be interpreted with caution.
Due to the definitional changes, these estimates cannot be compared with estimates
for previous years which were based on a definition relating to the Disability Discrimination
Act (DDA).</p><p>5 This data is not collected. Deafblind is not listed as a main disabling
condition either on LFS,</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to say how many
people whose Access to Work awards currently exceed the proposed limit on those awards
are deafblind as there is nowhere to record deafblind specifically on the Access to
Work computer system (DISC).</p><p>From December 2014, all deafblind cases are administered
by the Visually Impaired specialist team. And therefore should be recorded under the
Visual Impairments category for Access to Work allocation purposes.</p>
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