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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 2010
Physical Visual Hearing Psychological Mentally ill Not stated Total
Alt Camp 1,488 160 91 324 443 6 2,512
Alt Empordà 2,996 297 197 885 710 12 5,097
Alt Penedès 3,095 379 259 599 982 10 5,324
Alt Urgell 575 53 39 101 207 3 978
Alta Ribagorça 112 11 13 19 33 0 188
Anoia 3,924 451 296 670 1,262 17 6,620
Bages 7,316 895 625 1,089 2,612 13 12,550
Baix Camp 5,433 707 535 2,075 2,152 34 10,936
Baix Ebre 2,310 271 173 512 1,175 7 4,448
Baix Empordà 3,267 251 234 843 750 10 5,355
Baix Llobregat 30,568 3,244 2,571 4,152 9,482 40 50,057
Baix Penedès 3,075 257 256 503 944 10 5,045
Barcelonès 97,758 13,021 8,721 12,890 31,479 262 164,131
Berguedà 3,155 422 274 226 908 0 4,985
Cerdanya 290 34 20 100 62 0 506
Conca de Barberà 615 74 41 161 202 3 1,096
Garraf 3,879 496 300 599 1,113 8 6,395
Garrigues 698 97 60 121 190 2 1,168
Garrotxa 1,263 144 93 465 320 2 2,287
Gironès 5,422 526 398 1,480 1,587 12 9,425
Maresme 10,697 1,189 1,058 1,919 3,149 33 18,045
Montsià 1,830 174 145 441 913 7 3,510
Noguera 1,291 142 149 282 361 7 2,232
Osona 4,104 563 371 881 1,659 6 7,584
Pallars Jussà 536 75 55 82 166 2 916
Pallars Sobirà 179 20 18 33 50 2 302
Pla d'Urgell 1,148 128 100 275 323 5 1,979
Pla de l'Estany 730 60 47 233 206 2 1,278
Priorat 262 24 27 79 83 3 478
Ribera d'Ebre 582 79 50 138 222 4 1,075
Ripollès 795 96 85 223 239 6 1,444
Segarra 573 80 39 114 203 0 1,009
Segrià 8,645 1,015 855 1,706 2,665 27 14,913
Selva 4,514 434 361 983 981 16 7,289
Solsonès 389 46 43 100 134 1 713
Tarragonès 7,776 1,003 648 1,914 2,528 33 13,902
Terra Alta 319 35 16 73 133 1 577
Urgell 1,082 151 89 246 323 5 1,896
Val d'Aran 160 18 12 47 39 0 276
Vallès Occidental 23,450 3,077 2,754 5,150 8,783 137 43,351
Vallès Oriental 12,361 1,247 1,085 1,966 3,487 32 20,178
Catalonia 258,662 31,446 23,203 44,699 83,260 780 442,050
Metropolità 181,808 22,653 16,748 27,275 58,475 522 307,481
Comarques Gironines 18,987 1,808 1,415 5,112 4,793 60 32,175
Camp de Tarragona 18,649 2,225 1,598 5,056 6,352 89 33,969
Terres de l'Ebre 5,041 559 384 1,164 2,443 19 9,610
Ponent 13,437 1,613 1,292 2,744 4,065 46 23,197
Comarques Centrals 18,888 2,377 1,609 2,966 6,575 37 32,452
Alt Pirineu i Aran 1,852 211 157 382 557 7 3,166
Barcelona 200,305 24,983 18,315 30,140 64,918 558 339,219
Girona 19,221 1,836 1,431 5,195 4,837 60 32,580
Lleida 15,446 1,843 1,475 3,144 4,710 54 26,672
Tarragona 23,690 2,784 1,982 6,220 8,795 108 43,579
Source: Ministry of Social Welfare and Family.

Last update: April 15, 2011.

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.