Profile of the Disabled Population in Albania
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Transcript of Profile of the Disabled Population in Albania
PROFILE OF THE DISABLED
POPULATION IN ALBANIA
Céline Ferré,
Emira Galanxhi
Olgeta Dhono
KEY FINDINGS
6.2% of the adult population in Albania is disabled
Disabled working-age adults are 2 times more likely
to be out of the labor force than non-disabled adults
1 in 5 youth (15-64 year-old) with vision restriction
is looking for a job but cannot find one
Disability prevalence does NOT vary across income
quintiles
Disabled persons from the bottom quintile are 2
times more likely to experience or more disabilities
than the top quintile
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DATA AND DEFINITIONS
Washington Group (WG) general measure on
disability
Represent the most commonly occurring limitations in
basic activity functioning
Set of 6 questions asked in the census: seeing, hearing,
mobility, self-care, cognition, and communication
Two datasets
Census 2011
LSMS 2012 with similar questions on disability (seeing,
hearing, body deformation, limbs, cognition,
communication and other)
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6.2% OF THE ADULT POPULATION IN ALBANIA
SUFFERS FROM SOME SORT OF DISABILITY
2,084,137 individuals aged 15 and above
Disability prevalence:
Most common = movement restrictions (3.7%)
Least common = hearing and communication (1.7% and 1.%)
Vision, learning and self-care fall somewhere in between
Results are consistent with the evidence form other Eastern European and Central Asian countries (Mete, 2008)
22% of the population thus reports having some difficulty, strong difficulty or inability to perform daily tasks 6
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GEOGRAPHIC BREAKDOWN
Results don’t vary much across regions
Tirana displays the lowest incidence of disability (less
than 5%)
Gjirokaster has the highest incidence with 8% of the
population
Disability incidence is higher in less connected
areas…
… but concentrated – in terms of absolute numbers
– around the biggest agglomerations: Tirane,
Durres, Shkodra, Elbasan
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DISABILITY DISTRIBUTION,
CENSUS 2011
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Number of persons 15 year and over
who reported at least disability /
Total population aged 15 years and
over
Ratio calculated for each commune
and municipality
OLDER AGE COHORTS ARE MORE AFFECTED BY
DIFFICULTIES IN PERFORMING DAILY TASKS…
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… ESPECIALLY PHYSICAL DIFFICULTIES
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INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ARE
CONCENTRATED IN LARGER HOUSEHOLDS
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DISABILITY IS CORRELATED WITH LOWER
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Disabled children are overrepresented in the
category of primary-school-aged children not
attending school
75% only of children with some disabilities are enrolled
The picture varies greatly by type of disability faced
by children
more than 2/3 of the children with eyesight,
communication, cognition and self-care impairments are
enrolled in school
only 1/2 of children with hearing difficulties or mobility
difficulties are attending schools
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THE EDUCATION GAP IS PARTICULARLY LARGE
FOR YOUTH AND ELDERS
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DISABLED ADULTS ARE 5 TIMES LESS LIKELY TO BE
WORKING THAN THE NON-DISABLED POPULATION
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THOSE WITH COGNITIVE, SELF-CARE AND
COMMUNICATION RESTRICTIONS EMERGE AS THE
MOST DISADVANTAGED IN TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT
PROSPECTS
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WORKING-AGE VALID MEMBERS OF HOUSEHOLDS
WITH AT LEAST ONE DISABLED HOUSEHOLD
MEMBER ARE LESS LIKELY TO BE EMPLOYED
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DISABILITY AND INCOME
No higher prevalence of disability among lower
expenditure groups
Yet the population in the top quintile appears to
suffer more from partial limitations
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SOCIAL TRANSFERS
Households with disabled members are quite
dependent on social protection
79% of all households with a disabled member are
covered by at least one social assistance transfer
But half of the households who receive the disability
assistance have no disabled member
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GROUPING DISABLED POPULATION INTO
GROUPS
We use a Latent Class Analysis method to group
individuals with disabilities
Each group is made of people who look most like one
another
Each group looks least like one another
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