Table 1.
Special education codes in British Columbia by funding levels and support amounts.
Funding levels for 2016/17 are reported and are in addition to the block funding for special education.
Table 2.
Cohort demographics by level of special education funding.
Percentages are presented, with number of individuals in brackets.
Table 3.
BC Employment Assistance (BCEA) use by special education level.
BCEA use is described among those who use the two streams of this program, Disability Assistance and Temporary Assistance. Percentages are reported, with number of individuals in parentheses and standard deviation in square brackets.
Table 4.
Characteristics of British Columbia employment assistance program—temporary assistance users by length of program use (persistent use defined as >7 years using the temporary assistance stream, half of the study period), and whether these persistent users transitioned to Disability Assistance use.
Fig 1.
Receipt of BCEA support among those previously using special education support.
Percentage of individuals within each special education group who received British Columbia Employment and Assistance program (BCEA) support during the fiscal year, by age.
Fig 2.
Proportion of Disability Assistance to temporary assistance clients among those previously using special education.
Relative use of British Columbia Employment and Assistance–Disability Assistance (DA) program to Temporary Assistance (TA) program over young adult years, by level of special education received in primary education.
Fig 3.
BCEA payments among those using special education.
Mean inflation-adjusted British Columbia Employment and Assistance (BCEA) dollars Received over time, adjusted to British Columbia Consumer Price Index (CPI) per individual according to family equivalency scale.