The employment of persons with disabilities : statistics : data 2020 : summary and conclusions

The EU Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 and the UN CRPD put a high importance at the employment of persons with disabilities. Furthermore, in the framework of the Strategy, the Commission called, notably, on Member States to establish, by 2024, targets for increasing the employment rate of persons with disabilities, strengthen the capacities of employment services for persons with disabilities and facilitate self-employment and entrepreneurship. It is important to note that statistical indicators, presented here, are extracted from the EU-SILC survey. However, for the monitoring of Europe 2020 and later Europe 2030, the Labour Force Survey (LFS) is used. Since the goals of the two surveys are different, the questions included and the nomenclatures used are not the same in both surveys. Consequently, the statistical indicators drawn from the two surveys are not identical. The full report analyses in depth these differences, notably for employment, and unemployment indicators. The LFS plans to include GALI (Global Activity Limitation Indicator) in its 2022 round and future reports ought to include more precise indicators for labour market issues. This report presents statistical indicators for 2020 which is the last year of Europe 2020 Strategy. The new Europe 2030 strategy redefined a certain number of targets. However, the following data help to assess realisations in 2020 given Europe 2020 targets.