Disability Enrollments by Institution Data

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Description

This dataset contains information on percent of the student body with reported disabilities. The data is reported by institution. The earliest year for which the data is available is 2009. The data is available through the latest year published by IPEDS.

No aggregations are performed for institutions, so only identity mappings are allowed along the institution dimension.

Use Cases

Questions answered by this dataset:

What institution in Virginia has the highest percentage of disabled students enrolled?
How has the percentage of disabled students enrolled at a particular institution changed over time?

Metrics

DisabilityPercent: The percentage of enrolled students that have reported a disability (includes physical handicaps as well as learning disabilities).

Filters

Institution
Year

Core LMI Metadata

This dataset is offered via the Core LMI API. The metadata for this Core LMI API dataset is below.

Attribute	Description
Dataset ID	`EMSI.us.Ipeds_Disability`
Dataset URL	`https://agnitio.emsicloud.com/meta/dataset/EMSI.us.Ipeds_Disability/{version}`

Area Aggregation Path

The area aggregation path refers to the hierarchy that shows how data is aggregated, starting from the lowest-level geography and progressing to the highest-level geography.

The levels in the aggregation path include:

		Aggregation Path
		1	2	3	4
Level	1	Nation	Metropolitan US	Nation	Metropolitan US
	2	State	MSA	State	MSA
	3	County	County	County	County
	4	Zip Code	Zip Code	Census Tract	Census Tract

Datasets with lower granularity aggregates only up to Level 1

Versions

http://agnitio.emsicloud.com/meta/dataset/EMSI.us.Ipeds_Disability/2025.4

Metrics

[
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2009"
},
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2010"
},
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2011"
},
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2012"
},
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2013"
},
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2014"
},
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2015"
},
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2016"
},
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2017"
},
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2018"
},
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2019"
},
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2020"
},
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2021"
},
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2022"
},
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2023"
},
{
  "name": "DisabilityPercent.2024"
}
]

Dimensions

[
{
  "name": "Unit",
  "levelsStored": [
     "1",
     "0"
  ]
}
]

Attributes

{
"minYearInclusive": "2009",
"name": "Ipeds_Disability",
"path": "Ipeds_Disability",
"type": "dataset",
"maxYearInclusive": "2024",
"description": "# Description\n\nThis dataset contains information on percent of the student body with reported disabilities. The data is reported by institution. The earliest year for which the data is available is 2009. The data is available through the latest year published by IPEDS.\n\nNo aggregations are performed for institutions, so only identity mappings are allowed along the institution dimension.\n\n# Use Cases\n\n#### Questions answered by this dataset:\n\n* What institution in Virginia has the highest percentage of disabled students enrolled?\n* How has the percentage of disabled students enrolled at a particular institution changed over time?\n\n# Metrics\n\n* DisabilityPercent: The percentage of enrolled students that have reported a disability (includes physical handicaps as well as learning disabilities).\n\n# Filters\n\n* Institution\n* Year\n",
"countryCode": "us",
"displayName": "US Disability Enrollments by Institution",
"currentYear": "2024",
"releaseDate": "2025-09-25 19:39:49.0138864Z",
"datarun": "2025.4",
"onlyIdentityMapping": "UnitID"
}

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