Living Standards Measurements Study - Serbia 2002 - 2007

Graph 6.6. PWDs by education level and poverty
status
No education
Incomplete
primary school
Primary school
1/2-year vo-tech
school
Secondary – 3-year
vocational school
for skilled workers
Secondary – 4 year
vocational school
for highly skilled
Gymnasium
1.6%
1.2%
3.7%
3.5%
9.5%
7.9%
15.8%
15.2%
19.2%
25.9%
23.9%
31.3%
31.1%
and young people with disabilities in the regular
education system.
Graph 6.7. PWDs Economic Status, 2007
Formal employment
Informal employment
Employed (co/owner
of company or shop)
Individual
agricultural worker
Self-employed
Unemployed - looking
for work
1.8%
0.4%
8.1%
4.8%
0.1%
3.7%
Post-secondary
non-university
education
University
5.4%
3.3%
0.9%
Pensioner
Receiving social
assistance
0.3%
56.1%
Masters
0.4%
Housewife
6.9%
PhD
0.2%
Child, pupil, student
1.0%
Unable to work
15.0%
Above the poverty line
Below the poverty line
Other
1.8%
In 2007, the education level of most PWDs
living below the poverty line was up to the level of
completed primary school (86.3 percent of the total
number of the PWD poor). Examining PWDs living
above the poverty line most have completed primary
school (25.9 percent of the total number of PWDs
above the poverty line). This is followed by those
who completed secondary school (15.2 percent with
three-year and 19.2 percent with four-year vocational
schools), incomplete primary school (15.8 percent)
and no school (9.5 percent).
Similarly to the overall population, education is
a key factor related to poverty status. It is therefore
very important to ensure the inclusion of children
6.2.4. Economic status of PWDs and
poverty
More than half of PWDs were pensioners (56.1
percent) 6 , 15 percent declared themselves unable
to work, 8.1 percent were employed, 1.8 percent
worked informally, 6.9 percent were housewives,
4.8 percent were individual agricultural workers, 1.0
percent were children, pupils and students, while 3.7
percent were unemployed.
If self-employed PWDs, those working in the
informal sector, employers and individual
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