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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 2012
Physical Visual Hearing Psychological Mentally ill Not stated Total
Alt Camp 1,662 188 100 359 506 6 2,821
Alt Empordà 3,494 342 238 949 848 9 5,880
Alt Penedès 3,549 406 324 660 1,141 9 6,089
Alt Urgell 613 62 41 105 219 3 1,043
Alta Ribagorça 128 12 13 19 33 0 205
Anoia 4,244 490 345 740 1,482 17 7,318
Bages 7,978 928 736 1,208 2,818 12 13,680
Baix Camp 5,818 772 617 2,173 2,424 29 11,833
Baix Ebre 2,660 316 186 572 1,466 5 5,205
Baix Empordà 3,852 287 286 923 889 9 6,246
Baix Llobregat 33,386 3,524 2,998 4,432 10,819 34 55,193
Baix Penedès 3,527 292 311 559 1,107 9 5,805
Barcelonès 107,827 13,872 10,016 13,385 34,984 234 180,318
Berguedà 3,210 432 303 243 948 1 5,137
Cerdanya 334 40 25 100 67 0 566
Conca de Barberà 653 77 47 168 215 3 1,163
Garraf 4,181 548 339 653 1,290 8 7,019
Garrigues 740 96 66 130 186 2 1,220
Garrotxa 1,464 160 102 493 373 2 2,594
Gironès 6,078 606 453 1,578 1,841 11 10,567
Maresme 12,195 1,339 1,236 2,180 3,695 32 20,677
Montsià 2,098 192 164 503 1,106 7 4,070
Noguera 1,303 147 157 301 399 5 2,312
Osona 4,682 623 451 951 1,749 5 8,461
Pallars Jussà 549 76 59 79 182 2 947
Pallars Sobirà 185 20 19 33 52 2 311
Pla d'Urgell 1,211 126 106 290 351 6 2,090
Pla de l'Estany 821 83 62 248 242 0 1,456
Priorat 287 24 32 77 93 3 516
Ribera d'Ebre 616 82 57 148 255 4 1,162
Ripollès 876 97 99 228 254 5 1,559
Segarra 607 84 41 132 218 0 1,082
Segrià 8,999 1,063 913 1,861 2,944 26 15,806
Selva 5,259 503 428 1,081 1,208 14 8,493
Solsonès 417 48 51 107 151 0 774
Tarragonès 8,655 1,061 735 2,045 2,930 30 15,456
Terra Alta 336 36 18 76 155 1 622
Urgell 1,151 161 101 269 378 3 2,063
Val d'Aran 176 22 15 51 49 0 313
Vallès Occidental 26,573 3,411 3,253 5,705 10,252 122 49,316
Vallès Oriental 13,833 1,337 1,211 2,166 4,173 26 22,746
Catalonia 286,227 33,985 26,754 47,980 94,492 696 490,134
Metropolità 193,814 23,483 18,714 27,868 63,923 448 328,250
Comarques Gironines 21,844 2,078 1,668 5,500 5,655 50 36,795
Camp de Tarragona 17,075 2,122 1,531 4,822 6,168 71 31,789
Terres de l'Ebre 5,710 626 425 1,299 2,982 17 11,059
Ponent 14,011 1,677 1,384 2,983 4,476 42 24,573
Comarques Centrals 16,287 2,031 1,541 2,509 5,666 18 28,052
Alt Pirineu i Aran 1,985 232 172 387 602 7 3,385
Penedès 15,501 1,736 1,319 2,612 5,020 43 26,231
Barcelona 221,653 26,908 21,217 32,323 73,359 500 375,960
Girona 22,119 2,113 1,684 5,580 5,700 50 37,246
Lleida 16,142 1,924 1,586 3,397 5,177 49 28,275
Tarragona 26,312 3,040 2,267 6,680 10,257 97 48,653
Source: Ministry of Social Welfare and Family.

Last update: April 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.