Community Survey 2016: Profiling socio-economic status and living arrangements of persons with disabilities in South Africa, 2016

The Community Survey 2016: Profiling socio-economic status and living arrangements of persons with disabilities in South Africa, 2016 "report forms part of a series of disability statistics following the Census 2011 report on persons with disabilities. The report provides indicators on trends and patterns of disability prevalence based on four measures derived from a continuum of degree of difficulty in six domains of functioning (seeing, hearing, communicating, walking /climbing a flight of stairs, remembering/concentrating and self-care). Such measures are adopted from the Washington Group on Disability (WG) established in 2001 to address the need for crossnationally comparable population base measures of disability (UN, 2017). In order to assess equalisation of opportunities of persons with disabilities in some aspects of life, indicators on their socio-economic status are profiled based on Census 2011 and Community Survey 2016 output data.The report also provides some insights on living arrangements of persons with disabilities as well as assistive technology usage. A number of indicators profiled in the report form the basis of understanding circumstances of persons with disabilities in the country, critical for evaluation of progress and monitoring of the National Development Plan (NDP) 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) disability related targets."