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

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Gaps

The differences measured year after year. 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. 1A gap is the difference between two rates, and both rates are built by the instrument that defines the groups.
Photo: Mikhail Nilov / Pexels

4 entries in this section

The employment gapThe most-quoted single figure in the field: the difference in employment rate between disabled and non-disabled people, and what it does and does not tell you.
The pay gapMeasured on medians, and sensitive to who is in work at all.
Extra costEstimates of what living with a condition costs, and why they vary so widely.
Intersecting countsWhat happens to sample size when two characteristics are crossed.

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Every entry names the definition or the source it depends on, and the year. Where official figures disagree, the entry says so instead of choosing between them.

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