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<p>Employment status</p><p> </p><p>Data on the proportion of working age disabled
people who were employed, inactive and unemployed is published by the Office for National
Statistics using the Labour Force Survey. The latest data for Q2 2017 can be found
using the following link: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/labourmarketstatusofdisabledpeoplea08"
target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/labourmarketstatusofdisabledpeoplea08</a></p><p>
</p><p>In the United Kingdom, over the last four years the employment rate of disabled
people has increased by nearly 6 percentage points from 43.6% in Q2 2013 to 49.2%
in Q2 2017. There are now almost 600,000 more disabled people in work than four years
ago, with almost 3.5 million disabled people in employment.</p><p> </p><p>Business
Size</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Work, Health and Disability Green Paper we have
published information based on the size of people’s workplaces for Q2 2016 using the
Labour Force Survey. This data can be found in Table 1h using the following link:
<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/641240/work-health-and-disability-green-paper-data-pack-supporting-tables.xlsx"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/641240/work-health-and-disability-green-paper-data-pack-supporting-tables.xlsx</a></p><p>
</p><p>Self-employment</p><p> </p><p>The latest published figures from the Labour
Force Survey, covering Q4 2016, show that the proportion of people in Great Britain
who are self-employed who have a disability is 13%.</p><p>Source: Labour Force Survey,
available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/adhocs/006673economicactivityofpeoplewithdisabilitiesbyemploymenttypeaged16to64apriltojune2013onwardsgreatbritain"
target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/adhocs/006673economicactivityofpeoplewithdisabilitiesbyemploymenttypeaged16to64apriltojune2013onwardsgreatbritain</a></p><p>
</p><p>Note</p><p>Please note that the latest data from the Labour Force Survey covers
Q2 (April to June) 2017. However, we have used the latest publicly available data
for each request which is why different time periods are used.</p>
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