Overview
Andrew J. Houtenville is a disability economist and statistician at the University of New Hampshire, where he is affiliated with the Institute on Disability. His research focuses on disability statistics, prevalence measurement, employment trends among people with disabilities, and the methodological challenges of identifying the working-age population with disabilities in nationally representative data sets.
Key Contributions / Features
- CPS/ACS disability measurement critique (Burkhauser, Houtenville, and Tennant 2014): Co-authored the key empirical demonstration that the 2008 removal of the work-activity limitation question from the ACS and CPS-BMS introduced systematic bias into social success statistics for people with disabilities; conducted the face validity test showing the six-question sequence captures only 63.3% of known SSDI/SSI-Disabled Adults recipients.
- Self-reported work-limitation data (Burkhauser, Daly, Houtenville, and Nargis 2002): Co-authored the NHIS-based validation study confirming that while the work-activity limitation question understates disability prevalence, employment and program participation trends using this measure are not significantly different from impairment-based measures (1983–1996) — validating the use of the CPS work-limitation question for trend analysis.
- Co-author of multiple papers with Burkhauser and Mary Daly tracking the secular decline in employment among working-age people with disabilities since the early 1990s.
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