Occupational Characteristics of Disabled Workers: Analysis of Social Security Disability Benefit Awards to Workers during 1969–1972

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  "Occupational characteristics of disabled workers were analyzed based on Social Security disability benefit awards during 1969 to 1972. Race and sex specific and age adjusted proportional morbidity ratios were determined based on disabling condition and occupation, and numbers of disabled workers were estimated by disabling condition occupation, age, sex and race to furnish a reference for epidemiological investigations of occupational morbidity. The Continuous Disability History Sample file was used as a data source. The authors note that during 1969 to 1972 period, 73 percent of the estimated 1.5 million disabled workers awarded Social Security disability benefits were men. Eighty five percent of the beneficiaries were white, 14 percent were black, and about 1 percent were of other races. Circulatory and musculoskeletal system disabilities comprised 31.5 and 15.4 percent of the total, respectively. Mental disorders ranked third in all subgroups, except White women, for whom neoplasms ranked slightly ahead of mental disorders. Service occupations
  
  structural work
  
  clerical and sales
  
  professional, technical, and managerial
  
  and machine trade occupations comprised 15.9, 13.3, 13.2, 10.6, and 9.0 percent of the disability groups, respectively." - NIOSHTIC-2
  
  NIOSHTIC no. 00105624
  
  80-145.pdf?id=10.26616/NIOSHPUB80145
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB80145
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  xv, 29 numbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00105624
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f4a9220aa3958067b17f6280c113c3caa59fd9580a76cc74dcd052abdd6ff39ca2b0f23fc93875456e732d3d11410edcd14bfe5c0f38f954977185fafca1468c
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