Disability and occupational projections, Monthly Labor Review Online, October 2010

Disability and occupational projections

Table 15. Comparing occupational educational requirements with education levels of current nonemployed people with disabilities
[In thousands]
Education level	Total job growth, by required education level of occupation 1	Projected job growth of people with disabilities, by required education level of occupation 1	Current number of working-age nonemployed people with disabilities, by education level 2
No college degree	9,392	596	10,405
No college attendance	(3)	(3)	7,968
College attendance, but no degree	(3)	(3)	2,437

Associate's degree	980	37	622
Bachelor's degree	3,777	150	671
Bachelor's degree only	3,255	131	(4)
Bachelor's or higher degree, plus work experience	522	20	(4)
Master's degree	425	19	218
First professional degree	355	11	43
Doctoral degree	346	12	29
Footnotes: (1) Based on figures from table 14. (2) Based on noninstitutionalized population 18-64 years; from 2008 American Community Survey. (3) As coded in the BLS projections, the most significant sources of education and training that do not include a college degree are a postsecondary vocational training award, work experience in a related occupation, and short-, moderate-, and long-term on-the-jobtraining. These sources do not specify whether college attendance is useful, but the breakdown by college attendance is provided in column 3 to indicate how many nonemployed people with disabilities may have some skills through college training. (4) Not available.

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