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Data and Content Available by Data Source
Data Source	State IDD Agency Survey	Rehabilitation Services Administration	Social Security Administration	State Demographic Data	Wagner Peyser	Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act	American Community Survey	State Mental Health Agency Data
Years of data available	1988, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2007-2013	1991, 1993, 1995, 1997-2013	1990-2013	1990-2014	2002-2013	2000-2012	2000-2007 2008-2013	2002-2012
Population included in the available data	Recipients of IDD agency services	Vocational rehabilitation case closures	SSI recipients with disabilities, OASDI workers with disabilities	Working-age population in United States	Job seekers who registered at One-Stop Career Centers	Adults and dislocated workers served by One-Stop Career Centers	Working-age population in United States with and without disabilities	Adult mental health consumers served in the community
Employment
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Program funding, costs, and spending			*		*	*
Program outcomes					*
Program use/enrollment
* Not posted on StateData.info, available upon request.

1) State IDD Agency Data

Data Source: This survey collects summary data on day and employment service distribution and funding at the state level.

Service Definitions

Type of Service/Setting	Work	Non-Work
Community	Integrated employment: A job in the community where most people do not have disabilities. Includes competitive employment, individual supported employment, and group supported employment including enclaves and mobile work crews.	Community-based non-work: A program where individuals engage in recreational, skill-training, or volunteer activities in settings where most people do not have disabilities. Typically includes community integration and community participation services.
Facility	Facility-based work: Employment in a facility where most people have disabilities, with continuous job-related supports and supervision. Includes sheltered employment.	Facility-based non-work: A program whose primary focus is skill training, activities of daily living, recreation, and/or professional therapies in a facility where most people have disabilities. Typically includes day activity and day habilitation services.

2) Rehabilitation Services Administration

Data Source: Rehabilitation Services Administration 911 database. RSA-911 is a public access database that captures individual characteristics, services provided, and employment outcomes at the point of closure from vocational rehabilitation (VR) services. Records are at the individual level and cover approximately 600,000 case closures per year.

3) Social Security Administration

Data Source: Social Security Administration (SSA). These data are abstracted from SSA reports on the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program and the use of work incentives. SSA reports the number of individuals on SSI who are working.

4) State Demographics

State population is taken from the U.S. Census website.
Unemployment data is taken from the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.
Per capita personal income data is taken from the Bureau of Economic Analysis website.

5) Department of Labor

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) funds a wide variety of employment and training programs. StateData.info examines data for two of the major DOL funding sources: Wagner-Peyser, and WIOA. These are primary sources of funding for the infrastructure of the One-Stop Career Center system in all 50 states.

Wagner-Peyser – Wagner-Peyser data provide a significant source of data regarding the performance of the One-Stop Career Center system, since One-Stop partners are encouraged to register everyone they serve in the Labor Exchange Services funded by Wagner-Peyser.

Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act (WIOA) – The WIOA data are from two WIOA funding streams – Adult and Dislocated Workers. These data represent a subset of individuals served by the One-Stop system, who are eligible for services under these funding streams, and receive services beyond self-service or informational activities.

NOTE: The data from DOL generally relies on self-disclosure of disability. These data may not fully reflect the use of these funding streams by people with disabilities, due to individuals with non-apparent disabilities who have used the services, but have declined to disclose that they have a disability.

6) American Community Survey (ACS)

The American Community Survey (ACS) is a nationwide survey designed by the U.S. Census Bureau to provide communities with a fresh look at how they are changing. It is a critical element in the reengineered 2010 census plan. The ACS collects information from all 50 states and D.C. on topics such as disability, age, race, income, commute time to work, home value, veteran status, and other important data. As with the official decennial census, information about individuals is confidential. (Source: www.census.gov.)

Note on why the ACS for 2008 onward is separated from earlier data: In 2008, the ACS changed the way it asks about disability. Superficially, the differences between the 2007 questions and the 2008 questions may seem unremarkable. However, there are critical distinctions between the conceptual frameworks encompassing the two question sets. Research conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau demonstrates that the 2008 questions should not be used to make comparisons to earlier ACS disability estimates. (Description of disability question changes.)

7) State Mental Health Agency Data

In response to the need for accountability for the expenditure of community mental health block grant funds received by states from the Federal Government, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Division of State and Community Systems Development, and state mental health agencies along with their national organizations, the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) and the NASMHPD Research Institute, Inc. (NRI), have worked together since 1997 to ensure the uniform reporting of state-level data to describe the public mental health system and the outcomes of its programs. In order to satisfy the requirement for uniformity of data definitions, the CMHS Uniform Reporting System was developed.

The intent of the URS tables is to allow both (1) the tracking of individual state performance over time, and (2) the aggregation of state information to develop a national picture of the public mental health systems of the states.