Monitoring progress
How the Office for Disability Issues defines and measures disability equality
What is disability equality?
Disability equality can mean different things to different people. Following the publication of the Independent Living Strategy, disabled people were asked what disability equality meant for them. They also indicated what they felt needed to happen before equality could be achieved. The Disability Equality Indicators were then drawn up to measure progress towards disability equality as defined by disabled people.
What do the Disability Equality Indicators measure?
The Disability Equality Indicators are used to monitor progress on the Independent Living Strategy, the Roadmap to Disability Equality and the UN Convention.
They are gathered from across government departments to ensure there is transparency in how the life chances of disabled people are compared to non-disabled people.
Measuring against these criteria:
- allows government to agree and meet tangible goals
- allows disabled people’s organisations to monitor government progress
- provides researchers and statisticians access to credible, regularly updated data sets which address key areas of disability equality.
Resources
Explore
- The Roadmap to Disability Equality
- Disability statistics and research
- Involving disabled people
- Independent Living Strategy
Page last reviewed: 04 November 2010
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