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Data SourcesReference population for the study of disabilityTopics
b. Health and social careg. Healthe. Education and scholastic integrationf. Work and employmentd. Householdsk. Social protectionh. Social lifei. Transporta. Persons with disabilities
Istat data source
Social protection accounts by function and regime  (External link)note 0
Processing of hospital discharge data (External link)note 1 X
European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) (External link)note 2 X
Survey on social actions and services of single and associated municipalites  (External link)note 3 X
European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)  (External link)note 4
Survey on integration of students with disability in Italian schools  (External link)note 5 X
Multipurpose survey on households: aspects of daily life - general part  (External link)note 6 X X X X X X X X
Multipurpose survey on households: health conditions and use of medical services  (External link)note 7 X X
Residential care facilities (External link)note 8 X
Statistics on social security and welfare - Beneficiaries of pensions  (External link)note 9 X
Other agencies data source
INAIL Archive on harmful events (accidents at work and professional diseases)note 10
Eurostat Databasenote 11 X
Monitoring of the Employment Services note 12 X
Information System of the Ministry of Education, University and Research (SIMPI)note 13 X
Reference population
(0) Data refer to the "Invalidity" category of the Account of Social Protection, therefore the services that ensure the risk of total or partial inability to work are included, on the contrary invalidity benefits paid to over 65 years people that fall in the "Old age" category of the Account are excluded.
(1) Discharge of patiens with mental disorders.
(2) People with disabilities: people living in a household who claims to have some limitations, lasting at least 6 months, in the activities that people usually do.
(3) Services used by persons under age 64 with problems of physical, mental or sensory disability (including people living with HIV or living with TB), services aimed at improving the quality of life of the elderly, to foster their mobility, social integration and conduct of the primary functions, services and interventions for elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease.
(4) People with disabilities: people living in a household who claims to have some limitations, which continue for at least 6 months in the activities that people normally do.
(5) All primary and lower secondary schools both state and not-state and students with disabilities who benefit the teacher's support.
(6) People with disabilities: people living in a household who claims to have some limitations, which continue for at least 6 months in the activities that people normally do.
(7) People with disabilities. People of 6 years and over, living in a household, who stated, excluding conditions related to temporary limitations, that they are not able to do their usual daily activities, even taking into account the possible use of aids (prostheses, canes, glasses, etc.). The usual daily activities include the activities of personal care (dressing, washing, bathing or showering, eating), the activities of the mobility and locomotion (walking, climbing up and down stairs, bend down, lie down, etc.) and activities communication (hearing, seeing, speaking).
(8) Children under 18 years who have physical, mental, sensory or multiple disabilities; adults between 18 and 64 years who have physical, mental, sensory, multiple disabilities or psychiatric problems; not self-sufficient people over 65 years whith a permanent disability or chronic illnesses, with consequent reduction of personal autonomy as much to need continuosly help or to perform important functions of life daily.
(9) People with disabilities, certified by the appropriate committees or medical examiners, which is recognized for providing monetary benefits.
(10) People with permanent disability: disability that implies a diminishment of working capacity with permanent consequences equal to or more than 6% and/or a biological damage, conceived as an injury to one's mental and physical integrity, subject to a medical-legal check.
(11) People with disabilities who receive assistance from the social protection system in the form of monetary transfers and/or services.
(12) In accordance with Article 1 of Law 12 March 1999, n. 68, are included: a) people in working age suffering from physical, mental or sensory and intellectual disabilities resulting in a reduction in capacity working more than 45 per cent; b) people with a degree of disability, due to the previous work, exceeding 33 percent; c) blind or deaf and dumb; d) war invalids, civil war invalids and invalids servicemen with disabilities ascribed to the eight classes of the rules of war pensions.
(13) Pupils/students with disabilities (visual, auditive, motor, intellectual and other disabilities).