Guidance

Using disability data

How to collect and use data to help improve the lives of disabled people.

Documents

Part 1 (data): Making disability data work for you: a community data toolkit

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Part 2 (research): Making disability research work for you: a community data toolkit

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Details

Part 1 explains how to find and use existing data.

Part 2 is a basic guide to conducting social research to obtain data that’s not available elsewhere.

Published 14 January 2014
Last updated 4 September 2014 + show all updates
  1. Added part 2 of the guide (about research)

  2. First published.