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Contents
Acknowledgements 5
The Authors 6
Summary 7
1. Introduction 11
1.1 Background and aims 11
1.2 New Deal for Disabled People evaluation and data 12
1.2.1 Barriers and bridges questions 14
1.2.2 Linkage to administrative data 14
2. Exploring the employment aspirations of Disability Living Allowance recipients 16
2.1 Disability Living Allowance, demographics and work aspirations 16
2.2 Health problem severity, demographics and work aspirations 18
3. Barriers and bridges to work: A Latent Class Analysis 22
3.1 Barriers to work 22
3.2 Latent Class Analysis 23
3.2.1 Many barriers class 24
3.2.2 Health only class 24
3.2.3 Job opportunities and caring responsibilities class 24
3.3 Barriers to work, Disability Living Allowance receipt and demographic characteristics 26
3.3.1 Many barriers class 28
3.3.2 Health only class 28
3.3.3 Job opportunities and caring responsibilities class 28
3.4 Bridges back to employment 29
3.5 The monetary value of Disability Living Allowance 31
4. Factors associated with negative work expectations 34
4.1 Modelling work expectations with health problem severity 35
4.2 Modelling work expectations with barriers to work 37
4.3 Modelling work expectations with Disability Living Allowance rates 38
5. Conclusions 40
Appendix: Details of the Latent Class Analysis 44
Table 1.1 DLA claim status 15
Table 2.1 Work expectations by DLA status 16
Table 2.2 Demographic characteristics by DLA status 17
Table 2.3 Work expectations by health problem severity 19
Table 2.4 Demographic characteristics by health problem severity 20
Table 3.1 Frequency of reported barriers to work 22
Table 3.2 Latent class membership by DLA status 26
Table 3.3 Demographic characteristics by latent class membership 27
Table 3.4 Frequency of reported bridges to work 29
Table 3.5 DLA amounts 2008/09 32
Table 3.6 Work expectations by DLA care rate 32
Table 3.7 Work expectations by DLA mobility rate 32
Table 3.8 Work expectations by DLA amount received 33
Table 4.1 Logistic regression of being unsure or not expecting to work 36
Table 4.2 Logistic regression of being unsure or not expecting to work with latent class membership 37
Table 4.3 Logistic regression of being unsure or not expecting to work with DLA amounts 39
Figure 3.1 Number of barriers to work reported 23
Figure 3.2 Barriers to work statement by latent class membership 25
Figure 3.3 Number of bridges to work reported 30
Figure 3.4 Bridges to work by DLA status 31
Figure A.1 LCA goodness of fit statistics 45
Box
Box 1.1 Interpreting odds ratios 35