Human functioning and disability


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Percentage of persons with disability by age and sex
Spain 1986 Survey
Total 15.02.48.555.8
Male 13.32.88.549.6
Female 16.52.08.560.2


Source: Encuesta Sobre Discapacidades, Deficiencias y Minusvalias,  Tomo 1 and II.


Questions used to identify persons with disabilities:

1. Is anyone in this household blind?
2. Is anyone in this household blind in one eye?
3. Does anyone in this household have difficulties, even when using glasses or contact lenses, in seeing television images at a distance of 2 meters, read the newspaper or see and read a wristwatch at a normal distance?
4. Is anyone in this household deaf?
5. Is anyone in this household deaf in one ear?
6. Is there anyone in this household who is unable to or have serious difficulty in following a conversation in a normal voice without the use of a hearing aid?
7. Is anyone in this household mute?
8. Does anyone in this household stutter badly?
9. Is there anyone in this household who is unable to or has serious difficulty in speaking in a manner that others can understand?
10. Is there anyone in this household who is unable to or has serious mental difficulty in reading or writing?
11. Is there anyone in this household who is unable to or has had serious mental difficulty in making or understanding graphic signs or conventional symbols, such as traffic signs, clock time etc?
12. Is there anyone in this household who is unable to or has serious difficulty in performing basic personal activities such as eating, going to the toilet, dressing, etc., without the aid of another person or some external mechanism such as catheters, technical aids, etc?
13. Does anyone in this household use a wheelchair to move about?
14. Is there anyone in this household who is unable to or has great difficulty in walking without the help of another person or a prosthesis or instrument such as crutches, a stick, etc.?
15. Is there anyone in this household who is unable to or has great difficulty in climbing a ten-step staircase without pausing, although not necessarily quickly, without the help of the railing or some other instrument?
16. Is there anyone in this household who is incapable of or has great difficulty in running at a gymnastic pace for a distance of 50 meters?
17. Is there anyone in this household who is incapable of or has great difficulty going outside, unless accompanied by another person?
18. Is there anyone in this household who is incapable of or has great difficulty in performing ordinary activities such as opening and closing doors, windows, faucets or doorknobs without the aid of prostheses or instruments?
19. Is there anyone in this household who is incapable of or has great difficulty in reaching for objects, stretching or bending down to grasp them?
20. Is there anyone in this household who is dependent for survival on an apparatus, equipment or instrument, such as a pacemaker, heart value, artificial kidney, etc.?
21. Is there anyone in this household who must eat such a strict or special diet that they are incapable of living normally?
22. Is there anyone in this household who is incapable of or has great difficulty in remaining seated or standing due to physical weakness, dizziness, circulatory problems, etc.?
23. Is there anyone in this household who is incapable of or has great difficulty in identifying people or objects, understanding situations or learning as a consequence of insufficient blood to the brain, mental disease, mental retardation, etc.?
24. Is there anyone in this household who is incapable of or has great difficulty in avoiding risks that place their physical integrity in jeopardy?