Thread by @ONS

We’ve published our third annual release exploring how aspects of life for disabled people in the UK compared with those of non-disabled people in 2021 ow.ly/ztiH50HRtAk

24.9% of disabled people (aged 21 to 64 years) had a degree as their qualification, compared to 42.7% of non-disabled people, in the year ending June 2021.

However, the proportion of disabled people educated to degree level was up 1.9 percentage points from last year.

More than one in ten (13.3%) disabled people (aged 21 to 64 years) in the UK had no qualifications in the year ending June 2021, compared to 4.6% of non-disabled people.

53.5% of disabled people in the UK, aged 16 to 64, were in employment, compared with 81.6% for non-disabled people, between July-September 2021.

Among disabled people, those with severe or specific learning difficulties, autism or mental illness had some of the lowest levels of employment.

Home ownership among disabled people, aged 16 to 64 in the UK, was 39.7% in the year ending June 2021, a decrease of 1.7 percentage points compared to 2020.

Comparatively, 53.3% of non-disabled people were homeowners.

Personal well-being among disabled people was poorer compared to non-disabled for all categories:

▪️Happiness
▪️Feeling that things done in life are worthwhile
▪️Life satisfaction
▪and particularly anxiety (4.6 out of ten, compared with 3.0 out of ten for non-disabled people).

The proportion of people aged 16+ in England saying they felt lonely “often or always” was nearly four times higher for disabled people (15.1%) than for non-disabled people (3.6%), in the year ending March 2021 ow.ly/ztiH50HRtAk