Vývoj sociálnej situácie osôb so zdravotným postihnutím a ich rodín v kvantitatívnej výskumnej optike
The development of the social situation of persons with disabilities and their families from the viewpoint of quantitative research

Summary/Abstract: Slovakia as a state party to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has transposed the commitments of the UN Convention into the measures of the National Disability Programme for years 2014−2020 (hereinafter only „NDP“). One of these commitments in the area of statistics, data collection and research is to annually publish a report on living conditions of persons with disabilities and their families, based on available / mainstream statistical surveys (measure No. 4.17.1 of the NDP). As a result of this commitment and on grounds of an intense co-operation with the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, in 2016, the authors of this article prepared at the Institute for Labour and Family Research the report „Developments of social situation of persons with disabilities and their families - secondary research analysis“. Such a detailed analysis has not been prepared since 2006, when the report on living conditions of families with a disabled member was published (Repková, 2006). The aim of this article is to summarise and analyse the main findings of the report on developments of social situation of persons with disabilities and their families in the following four areas: health, social protection, education, and employment of people with disabilities. Interpretation of the main findings related to the developments in social situation of persons with disabilities during last five years has certain limitations, since the analysis has been based solely on quantitative data and available statistical sources. In particular, changes in indicator scores may be related to a greater extent to the lay-out of public policies (e. g. eligibility criteria for different types of benefits, its mutual non/coherence) than to real changes in living conditions of people with disabilities itself. For these reasons, in the discussion the authors propose several hypotheses whose verification would require further investigation based on a combined quantitative-qualitative research design.

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