Low income among persons with a disability in Canada by Katherine Wall Overview of the study This study uses data from the 2014 Longitudinal and International Study of Adults (LISA) in order to examine the relationship between low income and characteristics of people aged 25 to 64 with a disability, including disability type, severity class, age of onset of disability, family composition, and othe [...] Second, it presents a methodologies, the CIS and LISA with a physical or sensory disability.9 new categorization of disability types show similar trends in the proportion that sheds light on the relationship of the population with a disability I n. C a n a d a ,. m o s t. s t a t i s t i c a l between low income and three (Table 1). [...] Furthermore, Women both surveys show the same pattern Without a disability 9.8 9.3 of low income by disability type: With a disability 25.0 23.1 persons with a mental–cognitive or Men combined disability are more likely to Without a disability 8.0 7.9 be in low income than persons with a With a disability 21.6 23.3 physical–sensory disability. [...] First, the filter households, of whom 18,433 were interviewed and weighted questions used to identify the persons most likely to have a to make the sample representative of the target population.22 disability using the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) The CIS has a sample size of 57,717, of whom 23,579 were were not the DSQ filters—they were the old Activities of Daily asked the disability que