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Podcast: Data on people with learning disabilities

This week Hannah Randolph is joined by David Jack and Chirsty McFadyen to discuss two reports FAI put out last month on data on people with learning disabilities.

Read the full report on available data on people with learning disabilities here and the background report here.

 

Chair: Hannah Randolph, Associate Economist, Fraser of Allander Institute

Guests: David Jack, Economic Fellow, Fraser of Allander Institute

Chirsty McFadyen, Associate Economist, Fraser of Allander Institute

Timestamps:

(00:25) Previous work on learning disabilities

(01:45) Data on people with learning disabilities

(11:15) Recommendations for data collection and use

(20:15) Looking ahead – more on data

(27:05) Looking ahead – qualitative work

Authors

Hannah is a Fellow at the Fraser of Allander Institute. She specialises in applied social policy analysis with a focus on social security, poverty and inequality, labour supply, and immigration.

David is a Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the Fraser of Allander Institute. Previously, he worked in a range of analytical positions across the public sector, primarily as a statistician.

Chirsty is a Knowledge Exchange Associate at the Fraser of Allander Institute where she primarily works on projects related to employment and inequality.