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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 2009
Physical Visual Hearing Psychological Mentally ill Not stated Total
Alt Camp 1,359 147 83 309 381 6 2,285
Alt Empordà 2,659 275 176 855 625 13 4,603
Alt Penedès 2,868 353 233 582 901 11 4,948
Alt Urgell 540 50 37 99 186 3 915
Alta Ribagorça 108 11 11 19 32 0 181
Anoia 3,667 418 270 658 1,148 17 6,178
Bages 6,621 832 542 1,016 2,414 13 11,438
Baix Camp 5,085 667 494 1,926 1,857 30 10,059
Baix Ebre 2,186 257 159 481 978 5 4,066
Baix Empordà 2,900 243 214 819 688 10 4,874
Baix Llobregat 28,963 3,042 2,331 4,035 8,939 40 47,350
Baix Penedès 2,743 234 239 468 833 8 4,525
Barcelonès 92,206 12,504 8,162 12,636 29,754 273 155,535
Berguedà 2,981 396 243 219 819 0 4,658
Cerdanya 253 33 19 93 57 0 455
Conca de Barberà 570 66 37 148 178 1 1,000
Garraf 3,531 447 269 579 1,006 8 5,840
Garrigues 665 97 58 117 177 2 1,116
Garrotxa 1,121 131 84 452 278 2 2,068
Gironès 4,893 483 375 1,410 1,432 12 8,605
Maresme 9,750 1,097 949 1,868 2,913 34 16,611
Montsià 1,737 166 131 412 770 7 3,223
Noguera 1,230 135 143 279 329 8 2,124
Osona 3,783 530 340 852 1,532 6 7,043
Pallars Jussà 504 74 49 80 153 3 863
Pallars Sobirà 166 20 19 36 46 2 289
Pla d'Urgell 1,101 117 92 260 311 5 1,886
Pla de l'Estany 629 55 45 223 176 2 1,130
Priorat 247 24 27 79 75 2 454
Ribera d'Ebre 558 72 50 127 193 4 1,004
Ripollès 723 93 79 221 217 6 1,339
Segarra 532 77 36 115 186 0 946
Segrià 8,231 962 801 1,656 2,452 25 14,127
Selva 4,000 394 321 933 873 16 6,537
Solsonès 359 42 41 94 123 1 660
Tarragonès 7,209 951 589 1,772 2,228 27 12,776
Terra Alta 303 34 12 67 119 1 536
Urgell 1,010 143 83 237 287 5 1,765
Val d'Aran 148 15 11 47 39 0 260
Vallès Occidental 22,211 2,930 2,564 4,989 8,141 141 40,976
Vallès Oriental 11,146 1,182 1,005 1,898 3,163 31 18,425
Catalonia 241,496 29,799 21,423 43,166 77,009 780 413,673
Metropolità 170,675 21,555 15,513 26,587 54,817 538 289,685
Comarques Gironines 16,925 1,674 1,294 4,913 4,289 61 29,156
Camp de Tarragona 17,213 2,089 1,469 4,702 5,552 74 31,099
Terres de l'Ebre 4,784 529 352 1,087 2,060 17 8,829
Ponent 12,769 1,531 1,213 2,664 3,742 45 21,964
Comarques Centrals 17,411 2,218 1,436 2,839 6,036 37 29,977
Alt Pirineu i Aran 1,719 203 146 374 513 8 2,963
Barcelona 187,725 23,730 16,908 29,328 60,733 574 318,998
Girona 17,127 1,702 1,310 4,992 4,328 61 29,520
Lleida 14,647 1,749 1,384 3,057 4,336 54 25,227
Tarragona 21,997 2,618 1,821 5,789 7,612 91 39,928
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 "..".