Optimising Strategies for Integrating People with Disabilities into Work

German EU Presidency 2007

2007 European Year of Equal Opportunities for All

Diversity at work

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General Health

Jobseeker

Element:
General Health

Jobseeker (WP5):
A person’s general health would have to be fair to poor in 8 countries for it to become a barrier to seeking paid employment and poor to very poor in the other 7 countries for it to become a problem for people with disabilities to seek paid employment.

Jobseeker

Element TO AU DK FI FR DE IRL IT M NL NO PT RO SL SI UK
General Health 1.1 1.4 1.4 1.5 0.7 1.5 0.7 0.6 1.8 0.8

1.3

 1.1 2.0 0.8 0.6 0.8

N = 12

Here respondents were asked the question “how poor does a person’s general health have to be for it to become a barrier to a person deciding to get paid employment?”  The rating scale used was a 5-point scale ranging from 0 to 4.
0 = very poor
1 = poor
2 = fair
3 = good
4 = very good

If a respondent believed that a person’s general health had to be very poor for it to become a barrier to a person deciding to get paid employment they would give a score of 0.  If they believed it had to be poor they would give a score of 1 and so on.

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