Threshold — how disability is defined, counted and governed in the United Kingdom.

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Counts

Who publishes what, and how often. Every entry below names the definition or the source it depends on, and says where official figures disagree.

A statistical bulletin open at a table of figures — Fig. 1Every published figure sits in a numbered table with a stated base population and reference period. The headline summarises that; it does not replace it.
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Who publishes whatSeveral bodies publish disability figures on different schedules from different instruments. Naming the source is not optional.
The censusOnce a decade, near-complete coverage, one question.
The continuous surveysSmaller samples, more often, with confidence intervals that matter.
Administrative dataCounts of people in a system, which is not a count of people.

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