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Data Provider: Welsh Government National Statistics Physically/sensory disabled persons, pre 2006-07, by local authority, disability and measure
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[Collapse]Wales1,84694610,3939,67710,28757,05990,208
WalesIsle of Anglesey167732103171,4562,079
Gwynedd59312235567174,2155,801
Conwy17242334846079,55710,922
Denbighshire21305914346126,0877,775
Flintshire78482753833354,3025,421
Wrexham..|The data item is not available..|The data item is not available..|The data item is not available..|The data item is not available..|The data item is not available..|The data item is not available..|The data item is not available
Powys56361,0883863034,7606,629
Ceredigion242242192181,2731,760
Pembrokeshire26263632813951,8382,929
Carmarthenshire120739566186882,9055,360
Swansea4191028479091,1796,2129,668
Neath Port Talbot248419704775733,4875,796
Bridgend138711,2965825593,1885,834
Vale of Glamorgan943246937136001,326
Cardiff1731348731,1209822,3535,635
Rhondda Cynon Taf49373808477301,3413,384
Merthyr Tydfil256401941832,2292,677
Caerphilly106729542140801,102
Blaenau Gwent1912237235235152890
Torfaen2841366333288321,088
Monmouthshire49243132672194091,281
Newport81976813503791,2632,851

Metadata

Title

Number on register at 31 March and number of persons whose names were added to the register during the 12 months ending 31 March

Last update

October 2009 October 2009

Next update

No longer updated

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Local authority register of persons with physical or sensory disabilities (SSDA900) data collection, Welsh Government

Contact email

stats.pss@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local authorities

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

The registers of people with physical or sensory disabilities include all persons registered under Section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948. However, registration is voluntary and figures may therefore be an underestimate of the numbers of people with physical or sensory disabilities. Registration of severe sight impairment is, however, a pre-condition for the receipt of certain financial benefits and the numbers of people in this category may therefore be more reliable than those for partial sight impairment or other disabilities. These factors alongside the uncertainties about the regularity with which councils review and update their records, mean that the reliability of this information is difficult to determine and so it cannot be thought of as a definitive number of people with disabilities.
A more detailed breakdown of people with visual and other disabilities has been collected from 2007 than in previous years in order to identify the numbers of people with multiple disabilities. Some of the decrease between 2006 and 2007 may be due to double counting in earlier years.
People with sight impairment are registered by local authorities following certification of their sight impairment by a consultant ophthalmologist. The Certificate of Vision Impairment (Wales) formally certifies someone as partially sighted or as blind (now using the preferred terminology 'sight impaired' or 'severely sight impaired', respectively) so that the Local Authority can register him or her.
Registration is voluntary and access to various, or to some, benefits and social services is not dependent on registration. If the person is not known to social services as someone with needs arising from their visual impairment, registration also acts as a referral for a social care assessment.


Data collection and calculation

The data were supplied to the Data Collection team within the Welsh Government by the 22 local authorities in Wales on form SSDA900. The form applies an extensive series of validation checks to ensure that the information provided is accurate and consistent.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Data are shown for each financial year from 2001-02.

Users, uses and context

Please find this information in the related statistical publication, as per the given weblink.

Rounding applied

None

Revisions information

None

Keywords

Disability ; Physical; Sensory

Statistical quality

Please find this information in the related statistical publication, or alongside further information on quality and methods in the Quality Report, as per the given weblinks.

Name

CARE0017