英文摘要 |
"Purpose: To facilitate the employment of people with disabilities, many studies have evaluated employment outcomes and investigated the factors relevant to these outcomes. However, studies investigating the geospatial distribution of disability employment remain scarce. Rapid development in spatial analysis has helped researchers understand spatial distribution patterns. Spatial regression models can be used to investigate the relationships between various factors potentially associated with spatial characteristics. Therefore, this study applied spatial analysis to explore the spatial distribution patterns of the employment of clients with disabilities who were successfully employed after they received vocational rehabilitation services in Taiwan. Methods: Employment data were collected from the National Disability Vocational Rehabilitation Case Service Database. There were 4,592 clients who were engaged in paid employment after receiving the services in 2016. Data analysis included spatial autocorrelation analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis. In the spatial autocorrelation analysis, two indicators were used: Moran’s Index measured global spatial autocorrelation based on both feature locations and feature values simultaneously to explore an overall spatial distribution pattern, while local indicators of spatial association (LISA) assessed the possibility of recognition of spatial clusters in each local data sets and the spatial patterns of the indictors were categorized into four zones (high-high, low-low, high-low and low-high). In the regression analysis, the traditional ordinary least-squares regression was applied first. It was then followed by the geographically weighted regression due to the identification of spatial autocorrelation in residuals. The ArcGIS 10.2 and SPSS Statistics 17.0 software packages were used to conduct the spatial and statistical analyses, respectively. Results/Findings: Global spatial autocorrelation analysis indicated spatial clusters in the employment of clients with disabilities. A significant high–high pattern was identified through local spatial autocorrelation analysis using local indicators of spatial association, but high–low, low–high, and low–low patterns were not identified. Moreover, the regression analysis indicated that employment density and service industry percentage were predictors of the geospatial distribution of the employment of clients with disabilities. These two variables were positively correlated and exhibited varied effects in different townships in Taiwan. The geographically weighted regression model accounted for 86% of the variance in the geospatial distribution of disability employment. Conclusions/Implications: The results give evidence of the importance of using spatial analysis in the vocational rehabilitation field. More endeavors are needed to increase the knowledge. The geographically weighted regression has the potential to provide a more accurate result than the traditional ordinary least-squares regression in determining the spatial distribution of employment of clients with disabilities who received vocational rehabilitation services in Taiwan. Further implications for practice based on the local spatial distribution patterns identified can also be provided herein." |