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By type of disability. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Persons legally recognised as being disabled. By type of disability. Counties, areas and provinces 2007
Physical Visual Hearing Psychological Mentally ill Not stated Total
Alt Camp 1,157 123 69 269 308 6 1,932
Alt Empordà 2,372 249 149 797 518 15 4,100
Alt Penedès 2,651 332 194 544 756 12 4,489
Alt Urgell 500 45 36 100 152 3 836
Alta Ribagorça 119 9 10 17 31 0 186
Anoia 3,456 396 237 624 973 17 5,703
Bages 6,015 819 455 898 2,046 13 10,246
Baix Camp 4,448 540 379 1,795 1,451 33 8,646
Baix Ebre 2,110 239 136 455 670 8 3,618
Baix Empordà 2,452 224 182 779 591 14 4,242
Baix Llobregat 27,454 2,944 2,001 3,828 7,705 44 43,976
Baix Penedès 2,117 207 163 424 553 8 3,472
Barcelonès 90,111 12,729 7,328 12,226 27,860 300 150,554
Berguedà 2,973 394 225 203 730 0 4,525
Cerdanya 226 31 16 84 54 0 411
Conca de Barberà 517 62 27 136 152 2 896
Garraf 3,291 427 231 530 868 10 5,357
Garrigues 663 94 53 118 149 2 1,079
Garrotxa 966 124 67 441 244 2 1,844
Gironès 4,214 431 307 1,301 1,208 12 7,473
Maresme 9,036 1,042 784 1,804 2,693 37 15,396
Montsià 1,598 142 116 380 502 8 2,746
Noguera 1,245 133 124 273 284 7 2,066
Osona 3,257 492 257 800 1,258 7 6,071
Pallars Jussà 475 68 37 78 135 3 796
Pallars Sobirà 163 18 16 31 34 2 264
Pla d'Urgell 1,126 114 84 232 273 6 1,835
Pla de l'Estany 530 53 33 230 141 3 990
Priorat 232 19 19 74 54 2 400
Ribera d'Ebre 529 56 41 121 136 3 886
Ripollès 630 76 73 209 189 6 1,183
Segarra 521 72 34 103 169 0 899
Segrià 8,047 924 718 1,595 2,173 27 13,484
Selva 3,299 335 232 908 719 17 5,510
Solsonès 325 45 35 91 109 1 606
Tarragonès 6,358 833 487 1,544 1,653 31 10,906
Terra Alta 259 30 11 57 79 1 437
Urgell 963 129 78 217 265 5 1,657
Val d'Aran 150 14 11 46 35 0 256
Vallès Occidental 22,032 2,876 2,312 4,703 6,937 161 39,021
Vallès Oriental 9,723 1,104 837 1,789 2,691 35 16,179
Catalonia 228,310 28,994 18,604 40,854 67,548 863 385,173
Metropolità 164,298 21,454 13,687 25,424 49,510 599 274,972
Comarques Gironines 14,463 1,492 1,043 4,665 3,610 69 25,342
Camp de Tarragona 14,829 1,784 1,144 4,242 4,171 82 26,252
Terres de l'Ebre 4,496 467 304 1,013 1,387 20 7,687
Ponent 12,565 1,466 1,091 2,538 3,313 47 21,020
Comarques Centrals 16,026 2,146 1,209 2,616 5,116 38 27,151
Alt Pirineu i Aran 1,633 185 126 356 441 8 2,749
Barcelona 180,000 23,553 14,860 27,947 54,515 636 301,511
Girona 14,635 1,518 1,056 4,733 3,653 69 25,664
Lleida 14,350 1,672 1,240 2,919 3,822 56 24,059
Tarragona 19,325 2,251 1,448 5,255 5,558 102 33,939
Source: Departament d'Acció Social i Ciutadania. Secretaria General.

Last update: January 10, 2013.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Physical disability
It is divided into two types: Motor: Physical disability suffering people who have affected the ability to move for various reasons (birth defects, accidents, brain injury...). Non-motor: Physical disability with people who for organic causes cannot develop a full life (fatigue, coronary heart disease, kidney disease, lung disease...).
Intellectual disability
Disability presented by persons who, for both congenital and acquired causes, have mental deficiencies. This group is characterized by intellectual function below average and ease of understanding and information reduced. This category does not include people with mental illness.
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.
Sensory disability
There are two types: Visual: Disability experienced by people who have a total or partial lack of vision prevents them from living a full life (total or partial blindness). Hearing: Disability experienced by people who have a total or partial lack of hearing prevents them from living a full life and, that as a result of this deficiency, also may lack speech. These situations may have originated from genetic lesions, delivery or in diseases of the mother during pregnancy (total or partial deafness, deaf-muteness...).
Mental illness
Disability experienced by people affected by cognitive, affective and behavioral disorders.

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.