He also read and commented on earlier drafts. Dr Eddie Rooney and Maggie Smith of PPRU gave advice on the approach to be adopted and also commented on drafts. Peter Robinson and Bernadette Duffy of PPRU dealt with a number of detailed requests for information and helped in the process of extracting the data from the main database. Michael Beare, of the Information Technology Unit at PPRU, and Brendan O'Kane, of Computer Services at the University of Ulster, both helped with the technical process of transferring the data. The author wishes to express his thanks to all who assisted.
Any shortcomings remain the responsibility of the author.
The report is in six sections. Section One contains an introduction which provides basic information from the PPRU reports broken down by religion. Section Two considers disability among adult Catholics and adult Protestants while Section Three provides a similar analysis for children. Section Four looks at the prevalence of disability in Northern Ireland for the two main religious groups. Section Five considers the circumstances and characteristics of disabled people and their households.