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Equality of people with disabilities in 2019 Disabled people are less satisfied with their quality of life at work

Revised version dated 29.11.2021: one figure in the lead (marked in red in the PDF document) has been corrected.

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In 2021 almost one person in six with a disability was at risk of poverty

29.11.2021 - Persons with disabilities participate widely in the labour market. In 2019, 72% of them did so. However, their quality of life is not as good as that of other working people: overall they are less likely to be satisfied with their work than people without disabilities (67% of them compared with 81%) and to be subject at work to more violence and discrimination (26% compared with 18%). These findings come from the equality indicators of the Federal Statistical Office (FSO), published ahead of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3rd December.

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