Disability data from 2012 census
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Data on persons with disability
from 2012 census
17 October 2014
Methodology• Two questions on disabilities were included in the Census questionnaire:
Does (name) have any difficulties or problems as listed below? If yes, what were the causes?
Type of Disability: Cause of Disability:Seeing CongenitalHearing Disease / IllnessSpeaking Injury / AccidentWalking / Climbing War / MinesLearning / Concentrating GenocideOther......... Not known
Other ..........
HOWEVER: Data is not available for children under 5 years due to difficulties in identification and inaccuracies in collection.
Prevalence & Types of Impairment
• Total population:10,515,973
• Population with a disability: 446,453 (aged 5 and above)
• Prevalence: 5%
•The most common type of impairment was ‘walking/ climbing’
(physical), followed by ‘learning / concentrating’ (intellectual).
Seeing Hearing Speaking Walking / Climbing
Learning / Concentrating
Other Type notStated
Number 57,213 33,471 16,256 220,130 84,133 66,696 1,967
Percentage 12% 7% 3% 46% 18% 14% 0%
Seeing12%
Hearing7%
Speaking3%
Walking / Climbing
46%
Learning / Concentrating
18%
Other14%
Type not stated
0%
Type of Impairments
Causes of Impairment
The most common cause of impairment is disease or illness, followed by injury or accident.
Rwanda Number Percentages
Congenital 57,467 13%
Disease/Illness 230,432 52%
Injury/Accident 90,088 20%
War/Mines 22,904 5%
Genocide 12,014 3%
Unknown 31,552 7%
Other 10,338 2%
Not stated 1,247 0%
13%
50%
20%
5%
3% 7%
2%0%
Cause of ImpairmentsCongenital
Disease/Illness
Injury/Accident
War/Mines
Genocide
Unknown
Other
Not
Access to Education• 64% of children with disabilities attend school, (compared to 81% of children without a disability).
• 27% of children with a disability have never attended school, compared to 14% among children without a disability.
• 41% of people with disabilities have no formal education, the share is even higher for women with disabilities (50%).
• Most persons with disabilities who have attended school stopped at primary level (61%, compared to 49% of population without a disability). Those who have a secondary level of education represent only 6%, (compared to 12% of people without a disability).
Top level of education by impairment type
Seeing Hearing Speaking
Walking / Climbing
Learning / Concentratin
g
Other Type not stated
No education
41% 50% 69% 41% 44% 38% 19%
Preschool 1% 1% 2% 1% 1% 1% 3%
Primary 48% 43% 25% 49% 46% 53% 62%
Post-primary or higher
9% 5% 3% 10% 7% 8% 15%
Not stated
1% 1% 2% 1% 1% 1% 1%
Count 57,213 33,471 16,256 220,130 84,133 66,696 1,967
Top level of education by impairment type
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100
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Not stated
Post-primary or higher
Primary
Preschool
No education
Illiteracy rates
40
23
60
32
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Persons with disabilities Persons withoutdisabilities
Pe
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Male
Female
Access to Employment
• 52% of people with a disability are employed, compared to 71% without a disability.
• People with disabilities are more likely to be self-employed than people without a disability (75% as compared to 68%).
• A smaller percentage access wage employment (13% as compared to 18%), indicating that salaried jobs pose higher barriers than self-employed work.
• 82% of persons with disabilities are working in agriculture, forestry or fishing, compared to 75% of the population without a disability.
Access to employment
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Male Female Male Female
Persons with a disability Persons without adisability
Pe
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nta
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Not stated
Inactive
Unemployed
Currently employed
Other available dataThe Census also collected data on the following:
– Medical insurance
– Age distribution
– Marital status
– Fertility rates
– Religion
– Sector of employment
– Living conditions e.g. Type of toilet, access to water and electricity
• All of the data can be broken down by gender, district and type of impairment.• All data is available online• Suggested citation: National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR), Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) [Rwanda], 2012. Rwanda Fourth Population and Housing Census. Thematic Report: Socio-economic characteristics of persons with disabilities