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By degree of disability and sex. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Persons legally recognised as being disabled. By degree of disability and sex. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
By degree of disability By sex
From 33% to 64% From 65% to 74% 75% & more Men Women Total
2010 243,515 112,720 85,815 215,708 226,342 442,050
2009 228,022 106,986 78,665 201,611 212,062 413,673
2008 218,645 107,150 82,266 199,475 208,584 408,061
2007 206,453 102,349 76,371 188,707 196,466 385,173
2006 198,051 100,720 78,756 186,427 191,100 377,527
2005 187,527 95,523 73,480 176,398 180,132 356,530
2004 175,801 89,890 67,889 165,338 168,242 333,580
2003 163,333 83,454 61,273 152,953 155,107 308,060
2002 152,462 77,566 54,746 141,756 143,018 284,774
2001 143,918 72,652 51,418 134,089 133,899 267,988
Source:
2001: Departament de Benestar Social. Secretaria General.
2002-2005: Departament de Benestar i Família. Secretaria General.
2006-2009: Departament d'Acció Social i Ciutadania. Secretaria General.
2010: Ministry of Social Welfare and Family.
Notes:
Persones a qui el Departament de Benestar i Família els ha reconegut la condició legal de persones amb disminució, a 31 de desembre. Dades procedents de la base de dades de persones amb disminució.
Persones a qui el Departament de Benestar Social els ha reconegut la condició legal de persones amb disminució, a 31 de desembre. Dades procedents de la base de dades de persones amb disminució.

Last update: January 10, 2013.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Recognised disability
Certificate granted to those people with a disability that is equal to or higher than 33% of the threshold established by law. It indicates the diagnosis and degree of handicap expressed in percentage terms and issued by the evaluation and orientation teams (EVO) at care centres for disabled people (CAD) run by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Methodological aspects

The Catalan social services system is the coordinated set of personal services, facilities, activities, economic benefits and of prevention, care and social promotion in Catalonia, which aims to ensure the participation of all citizens in the benefits of social life. Is specifically designed for individuals, families or groups who, by having difficulties in the development and integration into society, lack of personal autonomy, physical, mental or sensory disabilities, family problems or suffer social marginalization, are creditors of collective and caring effort.

The system is divided functionally into primary care social services and social services of specialized care, and is organized territorially in key areas of social services, sectors of county, regional and territorial areas of Catalonia, and in the following areas of action: care for family, childhood and adolescence; care for people with disabilities, old age care and treatment of drug addicts.

The statistics on the disabled population of Catalonia is the result of the operation of a database that feeds information recorded in the assessment and guidance services dependent of the Catalan Institute of Assistance and Social Services (ICASS).

The valuation of disability meets the regulation set by the Royal Decree 1971/1999 of December 23, on the procedure for recognition, declaration and classification of the degree of disability (BOE number 22 of January 26, 2000 ).

The aim of this provision is regulate the recognition of the degree of disability, establish new applicable scales, determine the competent bodies to make the aforementioned recognition and procedure to be followed, all with the purpose of the valuation and classification of the degree of disability affecting the person is uniform throughout the State, and ensure equal conditions for access of citizens to the benefits, economic rights and services given by public bodies.

The WHO international classification defines disability as any restriction or lack of ability of a human to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal. Therefore, the severity of limitations for activities is the fundamental criterion used to develop the scales.

The official typological classification of disabilities is as follows: physical, sensory and mental. The typology exploited statistically encompasses the following groups: motor and non-motor physical, visual, auditory, mental and mentally ill. The tables include the 'no record', which are collected those encodings that cannot be included in any of these main groups.

Regarding the degree of disability ,is divided into three main groups. The first groups degrees of disability between 33% and 64%, which includes people with disabilities with a level of personal autonomy sufficiently important to social and labor insertion at least in a protected work system. The second group comprises degrees of disability between 65% and 74%. This block includes people who, generally speaking, have more difficulties to achieve full employment and social integration. The third group, with degrees of disability equal to or greater than 75%, recorded in most affected people who are likely to require highly specialized tools for social integration.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.