760,000 people with registered disabilities live in Austria. This means that, for example, they receive care confidence or have a handicap pass. This group is often excluded from educational and labor market.
According to the first data from the Austria statistics, there are only 15 percent in service, four out of ten have a maximum mandatory school leave certificate. The majority (70 percent) moved to a pension at the end of 2022. At the time, the other people with disabilities were either younger than 15 years or still in training. For comparison: almost every second person works in the total population (49 percent), only one fifth is retiring.
The part of people who no longer make a higher level of education after the mandatory or special school is considerably higher by 39 percent than in the total population. A third of people with registered disabilities had an internship at the end of 2022, 14 percent completed a high school and almost 13 percent had a matte or a higher level of education. Almost every third person has at least one matte in the total population.
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Much more at special schools
Almost every third young person with registered disability was taught in a special school or according to a special school education plan. There were major differences here, depending on the federal state. Especially at special schools people in Salzburg and Vorarlberg, in Carinthia it was considerably less.
There are also major differences when visiting high school and vocational training (BHS), the visiting percentages in the total population are twice to three times as high as with young people with registered disabilities. The difference is lower at universities, but students with registered disabilities will be closed less quickly.
Statistics Austria collects this data to evaluate political measures and to be able to measure progress in the implementation of the UN Treaty regarding the rights of a disability. This creates an “essential basis for the inclusion of educational and labor market policy,” said the statistics of the Statistics Austria, general director Tobias Thomas.
Source: Krone
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