This issue brief compares the quality of data collected for the National Beneficiary Survey (NBS), a survey of people with mental and physical impairments, via computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) and computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI).

Describes the design of an evaluation to study key outcomes for people with disabilities who participate in innovative state projects that promote employment, particularly those who receive Supplemental Security Income or Social Security Disability Insurance. The strategies involve different...

This newly updated guide provides an easily accessible source of research on the methodological issues associated with surveying persons with disabilities. Mathematica prepared the first version of the guide in 2006. This updated version has 75 new abstracts and reference citations—more...

As a collaborator with the Cornell Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Demographics and Statistics, Mathematica has been identifying the strengths and limitations in existing disability data collection in both content and data collection methodology. This source guide...

Allowance programs are a conceptually appealing way to help people with disabilities and their families pay for goods and services that such individuals often need. The programs provide recipients with financial resources that they can use in a flexible and efficient manner to improve their...

The idea of people with disabilities working is becoming the expectation and goal of public policy in the U.S. as well as in many other countries. This research brief from Mathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy profiles the U.K.’s Pathways to Work program which offers employment...