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Aug 19, 2025

Video - Digging into Disability Data: Making DisabilityStatistics.org Work for You

By Tonya Engst

Boost your skills! Watch Bill and Camille explain what they are doing as they pull maps, charts, and data to answer disability-related questions.

See four real-world scenarios where DisabilityStatistics.org is used to support proposals, build presentations, and answer data questions in this webinar from The Harkin Institute. Daniel Van Sant, director of disability policy at The Harkin Institute, poses the scenarios to Bill Erickson and Camille Lee from DisabilityStatistics.org. Bill and Camille share their screens to show exactly how to get maps, charts, and data tables from the site.

Pro tips that you’ll pick up include:

  • Showing data from multiple states or counties in a single chart or graph
  • Getting a URL to a specific map or chart
  • Downloading a chart in JPEG format or a data table in Excel or CSV format
  • Changing a chart’s Y axis

In addition, you’ll learn why DisabilityStatistics.org uses the American Community Survey, and how the American Community Survey defines disability. The video also covers why the site offers 5-year and 1-year data and the advantages and disadvantages of each.

The webinar and its transcript are available on The Harkin Institute’s YouTube channel.

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The goal of the Northeast ADA Center is to educate and empower all ADA stakeholders throughout New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands to increase their knowledge of the ADA and to support them to include people with disabilities in local communities and to implement the ADA in their own lives, workplaces, businesses, and communities.

The Northeast ADA Center is a member of the ADA National Network funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant number 90DPAD0003). We provide information, guidance, and training on implementation of all aspects of the ADA. Our center is located at the Yang-Tan Institute at Cornell University’s ILR School. Our staff consists of individuals with and without disabilities who have extensive experience in the disability field.

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