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Table: Number of recipients of disability pensions by gender

INFORMATION ON DATA
Reference population

People with disabilities, certified by the appropriate committees or medical examiners, which is recognized for providing monetary benefits.

Notes

Beneficiaries of pensions for persons with disability are those who receives one of the following type of pension: invalidity, indemnity, civil Invalidity and assimilated categories, war pension, or more pensions of which at least one of the types listed above.
Recipients with only attendance allowance are those who, among the forms of social security and assistance provided to persons with disabilities, receiving only one the one called attendance allowance. These persons accumulate this benefit with other pensions not related to disability.
The data refer to 31 December of the year under review.
In 2013 the total number of beneficiaries does not include 23,951 persons who live abroad or did not indicate the place of residence.
Since 2012, INPS has adopted a new classification methodology of the pensions paid by the former INPDAP (merged into INPS in 2012).
In 2012, INPS made a methodological refinement that has allowed a more precise classification of civil disability pensions paid in the Autonomous Province of Trento, for the years 2011, 2012 and 2013.

DATA SOURCES INFORMATION

Statistics on social security and welfare - Beneficiaries of pensions

The archive represents the most important source of information on pensions and on beneficiaries. From this archive may be selected the following type of beneficiaries: invalid due to work reasons, civil invalids and categories assimilated, war invalids, and those who have suffered a reduction of working capacity (of at least 66%) and have paid a suitable contribution period. It is possible to conduct a territorial and demographic analysis on the distribution of income and as well as on the number of benefits received by people with disabilities.