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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 2008
Physical Visual Hearing Psychological Mentally ill Not stated Total
Alt Camp 1,241 137 74 285 326 6 2,069
Alt Empordà 2,544 270 159 813 606 16 4,408
Alt Penedès 2,832 347 213 563 835 12 4,802
Alt Urgell 535 49 39 102 175 3 903
Alta Ribagorça 119 10 11 18 33 0 191
Anoia 3,689 421 249 636 1,076 17 6,088
Bages 6,411 841 486 946 2,192 14 10,890
Baix Camp 4,775 595 423 1,833 1,602 32 9,260
Baix Ebre 2,225 251 142 465 822 9 3,914
Baix Empordà 2,669 231 194 793 651 13 4,551
Baix Llobregat 29,080 3,066 2,157 3,919 8,379 43 46,644
Baix Penedès 2,385 215 193 437 651 8 3,889
Barcelonès 95,010 13,231 7,790 12,441 29,549 293 158,314
Berguedà 3,110 408 234 211 774 0 4,737
Cerdanya 243 32 20 89 57 0 441
Conca de Barberà 557 70 32 135 163 2 959
Garraf 3,534 447 251 549 944 9 5,734
Garrigues 694 102 56 117 172 2 1,143
Garrotxa 1,042 134 72 445 272 2 1,967
Gironès 4,545 473 337 1,344 1,379 13 8,091
Maresme 9,561 1,095 848 1,824 2,827 38 16,193
Montsià 1,697 151 122 388 615 8 2,981
Noguera 1,317 142 134 277 307 7 2,184
Osona 3,492 519 273 820 1,312 7 6,423
Pallars Jussà 526 72 45 78 157 3 881
Pallars Sobirà 171 19 19 34 37 2 282
Pla d'Urgell 1,163 121 90 240 304 6 1,924
Pla de l'Estany 588 57 38 231 165 3 1,082
Priorat 254 21 21 79 63 2 440
Ribera d'Ebre 563 61 44 127 170 5 970
Ripollès 671 84 76 216 208 6 1,261
Segarra 543 80 36 106 184 0 949
Segrià 8,461 975 760 1,638 2,387 27 14,248
Selva 3,639 365 261 934 825 17 6,041
Solsonès 353 48 36 91 119 1 648
Tarragonès 6,773 889 530 1,604 1,862 30 11,688
Terra Alta 288 31 12 59 103 1 494
Urgell 1,040 141 81 230 292 5 1,789
Val d'Aran 156 15 11 49 37 0 268
Vallès Occidental 22,924 2,997 2,469 4,846 7,590 153 40,979
Vallès Oriental 10,486 1,159 888 1,842 2,930 36 17,341
Catalonia 241,906 30,372 19,926 41,854 73,152 851 408,061
Metropolità 173,427 22,342 14,616 25,984 53,054 584 290,007
Comarques Gironines 15,698 1,614 1,137 4,776 4,106 70 27,401
Camp de Tarragona 15,985 1,927 1,273 4,373 4,667 80 28,305
Terres de l'Ebre 4,773 494 320 1,039 1,710 23 8,359
Ponent 13,218 1,561 1,157 2,608 3,646 47 22,237
Comarques Centrals 17,055 2,237 1,278 2,704 5,473 39 28,786
Alt Pirineu i Aran 1,750 197 145 370 496 8 2,966
Barcelona 190,131 24,528 15,857 28,594 58,407 622 318,139
Girona 15,884 1,642 1,154 4,850 4,150 70 27,750
Lleida 15,133 1,781 1,322 2,998 4,218 56 25,508
Tarragona 20,758 2,421 1,593 5,412 6,377 103 36,664
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.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".