Employment Development Institute

Surveys & Statistics

Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled

• Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled (PSED) is aimed at addressing the economic activities of a selection of respondents with disabilities. Data was collected by intermittently asking questions over an annual period for a sample of people with disabilities.
• The targets of the survey are registered disabled persons who were selected in late 2007 for the PSED. This sample group was designed to measure economic activity and employment characteristics of people with disabilities from the age of 15 to 75. For the sake of convenience, people living in Jeju island were excluded.
• The main data of the survey consists of demographic data (gender, age, education, disability status, disability grade, disability type), economic participation factors which utilize the questions and standards of the Korea National Statistical Office, and employed/unemployed/non-economically active population factors. In addition the individual and environmental factors which influence economic activity are included.
• The survey was performed by 5,092 registered disabled people utilizing data cleaning and statistical estimation.