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

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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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Post-primary or higher

Primary

Preschool

No education

Illiteracy rates

40

23

60

32

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10

20

30

40

50

60

70

Persons with disabilities Persons withoutdisabilities

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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

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10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

Male Female Male Female

Persons with a disability Persons without adisability

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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