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Matthew W. Brault

Statistician

Matthew W. Brault is a statistician with the Health and Disability Statistics Branch in the Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division of the U.S. Census Bureau. For the past seven years, he has studied the social and economic characteristics of people with disabilities in the United States, including the prevalence of disability across geographies and population subgroups.  He has written several reports and papers about this population — including the recently released "Americans With Disabilities: 2010" — using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and the American Community Survey.  Brault received a bachelor's degree in sociology from George Washington University and is currently pursuing a master's degree in public policy from Georgetown University.