"Figure 2: Disabled people with autism were among those disabled people with the lowest employment rate","" "Employment rates of disabled people, by main impairment, aged 16 to 64 years, UK, 6 months year ending June 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. The impairments or condition categories compared in this article relate to the categories within the question in the survey, the exception is speech impediment which has been grouped with the ‘other problems or disabilities’ category due to low sample size. 2. Analysis by impairment is based on the “main impairment” as reported by the respondent. People often experience more than one impairment, but this analysis does not account for co-morbidities or the cumulative impact of living with more than one impairment simultaneously. 3. The employment rate of all disabled people is including disabled people with any type of impairment and those who didn’t know or refused give an impairment type. This is included in order to show if the employment rate of disabled people with a particular main impairment was lower or higher than that of disabled people as a whole. 4. Lower and upper 95% confidence levels form a confidence interval, which is a measure of the statistical precision of an estimate and shows the range of uncertainty around the calculated estimate. As a general rule, if the confidence interval around one estimate overlaps with the interval around another, we cannot say with certainty that there is more than a chance difference between the two estimates." "Unit","%" "","" "","Estimate","LCL","UCL" "Severe disfigurements skin conditions allergies","71.9","62.6","81.3" "Difficulty in hearing","71.7","60.3","83.1" "Diabetes","62.9","56.8","69.1" "Problems or disabilities connected with back or neck","61.8","58.9","64.8" "Stomach liver kidney or digestion problems","61.8","57.2","66.4" "Problems or disabilities connected with legs or feet","60.8","57.5","64.2" "Chest or breathing problems asthma bronchitis","60.8","57.0","64.7" "Problems or disabilities connected with arms or hands","57.8","53.7","61.9" "Difficulty in seeing","57.3","46.6","67.9" "Heart blood pressure or blood circulation problems","56.1","51.5","60.8" "Depression bad nerves or anxiety","54.3","51.8","56.9" "All disabled people","53.6","52.5","54.7" "Other problems or disabilities","52.6","49.6","55.5" "Progressive illness n.e.c.","35.8","31.5","40.1" "Epilepsy","34.2","24.6","43.8" "Mental illness or other nervous disorders","33.3","28.9","37.7" "Severe or specific learning difficulties","26.5","19.0","34.0" "Autism","21.7","14.7","28.8"