FOI ref: FOI-2024-2083
You asked
Please provide:
- Deaf individuals who have left school (average number per year?)
- Deaf individuals who have joined college or are in college / university
- Deaf individuals who are not employed nor in college
- Deaf individuals who are employed (either freelance, fulltime or partime)
- Deaf individuals who are retired (any age group)
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
The information you have requested is available from the Annual Population Survey (APS), which provides data on difficulty with hearing, however, it cannot differentiate between partial and total hearing loss. If you would like to request a bespoke dataset on this basis, please contact socialsurveys@ons.gov.uk. to discuss your enquiry further. Please note, bespoke outputs are subject to disclosure controls, legal frameworks, resource and cost. For more information on costs, please see our charging policy.
As this information is reasonably accessible via another route, even if only accessible on payment, Section 21(2)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies.
Additionally, you might find the following links from the Family Resources Survey outputs, and the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) statistics, which provide data on this subject matter, useful: