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Persons legally recognised as being disabled. By type of disability

Persons legally recognised as being disabled. By type of disability Catalonia. 2013
Value Variation (%)
Physical 299,519 4.6
Visual 35,002 3.0
Hearing 28,126 5.1
Intellectual disability 49,975 4.2
Mentally ill 100,576 6.4
Multiple disability (physical and intellectual) .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Not stated 660 -5.2
Total 513,858 4.8
Source: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: September 12, 2016.

Methodological note

It provides information regarding those who, as of 31 December, had a legal recognition of being disabled in a degree of disability higher than 32%.

The presentation of the data by type of disability is done according the typology normally used by the Government of Catalonia. It is based on the features of the main disability of the affected individual.

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