Vocational Rehabilitation--Summary statistics

[For fiscal years ending in year shown (558 represents $558,000,000); see text, Section 9. Includes Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, and the Republic of Palau. State agencies, using matching state and federal funds, provide vocational rehabilitation services to eligible individuals with disabilities to enable them to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Services may include counseling, guidance and work related placement services, physical and mental restoration, training and rehabilitation technology]



ITEM	Unit	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998


Federal and State expenditures ¹	Mil. dol	558	636	702	730	810	867	898	956	986	1,063	1,076	1,118	1,167	1,254	1,366	1,452	1,506	1,649	1,776	1,867	1,910	2,092	2,240	2,241	2,517	2,714	2,844	3,046	3,080
Federal expenditures	Mil. dol	432	503	560	572	636	673	700	733	755	817	817	850	858	937	1,038	1,100	1,144	1,275	1,373	1,446	1,525	1,622	1,731	1,691	1,891	2,054	2,104	2,164	2,232
Applicants processed for program eligibility	1,000	608	715	763	798	793	837	799	748	830	713	717	681	574	602	594	594	594	597	606	623	625	619	713	713	675	625	578	617	624
Percent accepted into program	Percent	68	66	65	63	65	64	58	58	58	58	58	55	56	58	59	60	58	58	58	58	57	57	57	61	72	76	76	79	79
Total persons rehabilitated ²	1,000	267	291	326	361	361	324	303	291	294	288	277	256	227	216	226	228	223	220	218	220	216	203	192	194	203	210	213	212	224
Rehabilitation rate ³	Percent	77	75	75	74	73	70	63	64	65	65	64	62	61	62	63	64	64	63	63	63	62	60	58	56	49	46	61	61	62
Severely disabled persons rehabilitated ² ⁴	1,000	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	114	116	123	128	138	143	143	138	130	124	133	135	135	136	141	147	146	140	134	139	149	159	166	168	185
Rehabilitation rate ³	Percent	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	60	61	63	62	61	59	59	59	61	62	62	62	62	62	62	59	57	55	49	46	60	60	61
Percent of total persons rehabilitated	Percent	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	32	36	41	44	47	50	51	54	57	57	59	59	61	62	65	67	68	69	70	72	74	76	78	79	83
Persons served, total ⁵	1,000	876	1,002	1,111	1,176	1,202	1,244	1,238	1,204	1,168	1,128	1,095	1,038	959	939	936	932	924	917	919	929	938	942	949	1,049	1,194	1,250	1,226	1,267	1,211
Persons served, severely disabled ⁴ ⁵	1,000	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	556	569	600	612	606	601	572	562	565	581	580	584	604	625	640	654	668	762	882	940	951	1,005	988
Percent of total persons served	Percent	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	45	47	51	54	55	58	60	60	60	62	63	64	66	67	68	69	70	73	74	75	78	79	82

NA Not available.
1 Includes expenditures only under the basic support provisions of the Rehabilitation Act.
2 Persons successfully placed into gainful employment.
3 Persons rehabilitated as a percent of all active case closures (whether rehabilitated or not); beginning 1996, as a percent of persons who required services.
4 An individual with a severe disability is an individual whose severe physical or mental impairment seriously limits one or more functional capacities in terms of an employment outcome, and whose vocational rehabilitation can be expected to require multiple vocational rehabilitation services over an extended period of time.
5 Includes active cases accepted for rehabilitation services during year plus active cases on hand at beginning of year.

Source: U.S. Dept. of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration, Caseload Statistics of State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies in Fiscal Years, and State Vocational Rehabilitation Agency Program Data in Fiscal Years, both annual.

http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/RSA/rsa.html

http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/620_vocational_rehabilitation_summary.html

These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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