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Professional Life of People with Disabilities

• 1Contact
  • 1.1Contact organisation
    National Statistics Institute of Spain
    
  • 1.5Contact mail address

    Avenida de Manoteras 50-52 - 28050 Madrid

    
    
• 2Metadata update
  • 2.1Metadata last certified
    02/07/2024
  • 2.2Metadata last posted
    10/07/2024
  • 2.3Metadata last update
    02/07/2024
• 3Statistical presentation
  • 3.1Data description

    The Working Life of People with Disabilities (PLPD) is a periodic annual operation whose objective is to obtain information on the working life of people aged 16 and over with disabilities and to do so in terms of comparison with people without disabilities.

  • 3.2Classification system
    • Clasificaciones utilizadas

      DEFICIENCY

      In 1991, the IMSERSO implemented a new way of classifying impairments, adapted to the information requested and the contents of the assessment reports. The objective is to record in the State Database of Persons with Disabilities (BEPD) the impairments that gave rise to the disability (impairment codes). The impairment codes used are specified in the methodological manual: "hyperlink with INEBASE when it is operational".

      The following groupings of the disability typology are considered according to impairment:

      • Physical and others:

      1. Osteoarticular system
      2. Neuromuscular system
      3. Cardiovascular, immune and respiratory systems
      4. Endocrine and metabolic digestive systems
      5. Others

      • Intellectual
      • Mental
      • Sensory:

      1. Visual system
      2. Auditive System

      GRADE OF DISCAPACITY

      The population is divided into two categories according to the percentage of degree of disability:

      -Less than 33%

      -33% and more

      For PLPD, only records of people with a grade equal to or greater than 33% have been considered.

      45% and 65% are degrees of disability that establish limits for the purposes of receiving pensions or granting early retirement.

      For tabulation purposes, the following classification will be considered for the degree of disability variable:

      • from 33% to 44%
      • 45% to 64%
      • from 65% to 74%
      • 75% and more

      SITUATIONS IN RELATION TO SOCIAL SECURITY

      • Employment registration
      • Benefit/unemployment benefit
      • Contributory Social Security pension
      • Job registration and unemployment benefit/Subsidy
      • Employment registration and contributory pension from Social Security
      • Rest

      QUOTATION REGIME

      • General Regime
      • Autonomous S.R.
      • Seafarers S.R. and Coalminers S.R

      TYPE OF CONTRACT

      • Permanent - Full time
      • Permanent-Part time
      • Fixed seasonal
      • Temporary-Full time
      • Temporary - Part time
      • Not included or provided

      QUOTATION GROUP

      • Engineers, graduates and senior management
      • Technical engineers, experts and assistants
      • Administrative and workshop heads
      • Non-qualified assistants
      • Administrative officers
      • Subordinates
      • Not included or provided
  • 3.3Sector coverage

    Population coverage: Persons aged 16 or over who have been Social Security affiliates or pensioners for at least one day during the reference year.

    Coverage by degree of disability: Grade greater than or equal to 33% and similar (according to Legislative RD 1/2013).

  • 3.4Statistical concepts and definitions
  • 3.5Statistical unit

    Person 16 or older affiliated or pensioner of Social Security at least one day in the reference year

  • 3.6Statistical population

    The statistical population is made up of persons aged 16 or over who have been Social Security affiliates or pensioners for at least one day in the reference year.

  • 3.7Reference area

    The entire national territory is investigated, disaggregated at the Autonomous Community level.

  • 3.8Time coverage

    The statistics are carried out on an annual basis. Every year (a) the data are published with reference to two years ago (a-2).

  • 3.9Base period

    Not applicable.

• 4Unit of measure
  • 4.1Unit of measure

    Published data are presented in absolute values and are measured in thousands. Data in percentages are also published.

• 5Reference period
  • 5.1Reference period

    The reference period for the data obtained is annual.

    Data referred to the period: Anual A: 2022

• 6Institutional mandate
  • 6.1Legal acts and other agreements

    The compilation and dissemination of the data are governed by the Statistical Law No. 12/1989 "Public Statistical Function" of May 9, 1989, and Law No. 4/1990 of June 29 on “National Budget of State for the year 1990" amended by Law No. 13/1996 "Fiscal, administrative and social measures" of December 30, 1996, makes compulsory all statistics included in the National Statistics Plan. The National Statistical Plan 2009-2012 was approved by the Royal Decree 1663/2008. It contains the statistics that must be developed in the four year period by the State General Administration's services or any other entity dependent on it. All statistics included in the National Statistics Plan are statistics for state purposes and are obligatory. The National Statistics Plan 2021-2024, approved by Royal Decree 1110/2020, of 15  December, is the Plan currently implemented. This statistical operation has governmental purposes, and it is included in the National Statistics Plan 2021-2024. (Statistics of the State Administration).

    
    

    The collection, processing and dissemination of data from statistical operations for state purposes is governed by the provisions of Law 12/1989, of May 9, on the Public Statistical Function (LFEP), and in the Fourth Additional Provision of the Law 4/1990, of June 29. The LFEP establishes that the National Statistical Plan is the main instrument that organizes the statistical activity of the State Administration and contains the statistics to be prepared in the four-year period by the services of the State Administration or any other entities dependent on it. All the statistics included in the National Statistical Plan are statistics for state purposes and must be completed. The 2021-2024 National Statistical Plan, approved by Royal Decree 1110/2020, of December 15, is the plan currently in force. This operation is a statistic for central government purposes and is included in the 2021-2024 National Statistical Plan. (Statistics in the State Administration).

    There is a collaboration agreement between the INE, the Institute for the Elderly and Social Services (IMSERSO) and the Ministry of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare for the realization of statistics on the group of people with disabilities in relation to employment. The agreement is renewed annually and there is a Joint Agreement Monitoring Commission made up of a representative from each of the collaborating institutions.

  • 6.2Data sharing
    The exchanges of information needed to elaborate statistics between the INE and the rest of the State statistical offices (Ministerial Departments, independent bodies and administrative bodies depending on the State General Administration), or between these offices and the Autonomic statistical offices, are regulated in the LFEP (Law of the Public Statistic Function). This law also regulates the mechanisms of statistical coordination, and concludes cooperation agreements between the different offices when necessary.
    

    The data exchanges between the INE and the other statistical services of the State (ministerial departments, autonomous organisms and public entities of the State Administration), as well as between these and the statistical services of the Autonomous Communities for their statistical operations are regulated in the LFEP. The LFEP also establishes the mechanisms for statistical coordination between administrations, as well as the celebration of cooperation agreements when it is deemed appropriate.

    Information related to working life is obtained from the Ongoing Sample of Professional Life (OSPL) of the Social Security and that relating to disability is obtained from administrative records from the IMSERSO and is completed with the Ongoing Sample of Professional Life.

• 7Confidentiality
  • 7.1Confidentiality - policy

    The Statistical Law No. 12/1989 specifies that the INE cannot publish, or make otherwise available, individual data or statistics that would enable the identification of data for any individual person or entity. Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society

    
    
  • 7.2Confidentiality - data treatment
    INE provides information on the protection of confidentiality at all stages of the statistical process: INE questionnaires for the operations in the national statistical plan include a legal clause protecting data under statistical confidentiality. Notices prior to data collection announcing a statistical operation notify respondents that data are subject to statistical confidentiality at all stages. For data processing, INE employees have available the INE data protection handbook, which specifies the steps that should be taken at each stage of processing to ensure reporting units' individual data are protected. The microdata files provided to users are anonymised.
    

    The procedures for filing and transmitting files are the standards of the INE and their use is restricted to area personnel.

    The direct identification data is not stored together with the statistical information itself.

    The aggregated data complies with confidentiality restrictions.

• 8Release policy
  • 8.1Release calendar

    The advance release calendar that shows the precise release dates for the coming year is disseminated in the last quarter of each year.

    
    
  • 8.2Release calendar access

    The calendar is disseminated on the INEs Internet website (Publications Calendar)

    
    
  • 8.3User access

    The data are released simultaneously according to the advance release calendar to all interested parties by issuing the press release. At the same time, the data are posted on the INE's Internet website (www.ine.es/en) almost immediately after the press release is issued. Also some predefined tailor-made requests are sent to registered users. Some users could receive partial information under embargo as it is publicly described in the European Statistics Code of Practice

    
    
• 9Frequency of dissemination
  • 9.1Frequency of dissemination

    The statistical operation is disseminated annually.

• 10Accessibility and clarity
  • 10.1News release

    The results of the statistical operations are normally disseminated by using press releases that can be accessed via both the corresponding menu and the Press Releases Section in the web

    
    
  • 10.2Publications

    The results of this statistical operation are published on the INE Website (https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/en/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736177069&menu=resultados&idp=1254735976597)
     

     

  • 10.3On-line database

    INEbase is the system the INE uses to store statistical information on the Internet. It contains all the information the INE produces in electronic formats. The primary organisation of the information follows the theme-based classification of the Inventory of Statistical Operations of the State General Administration . The basic unit of INEbase is the statistical operation, defined as the set of activities that lead to obtaining statistical results on a determined sector or subject based on the individually collected data. Also included in the scope of this definition are synthesis preparation.

    
    

    You can access the tables in INEbase in the Society/Labour Market section, through the following link:

    https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/es/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736177069&menu=ultiDatos&idp=1254735976597

    The number of consultations in 2023 was:

            Number of consultations of data tables:  AC1=17,224 accesses

     

  • 10.4Micro-data access
    A lot of statistical operations disseminate public domain anonymized files, available free of charge for downloading in the INE website Microdata Section
    

    Due to the nature of the operation and the discrete sample size, it is not foreseen to provide microdata, since its diffusion would compromise the statistical secret.

  • 10.5Other

    It is possible to request tailored information from INE's Information area. These requests are processed taking into account limitations on confidentiality or accuracy.

    https://www.ine.es/prodyser/informacion

  • 10.6Documentation on methodology

    A detailed description is available at: https://www.ine.es/metodologia/t22/vlpd_meto.pdf

    The filled out metadata rate is: AC3=100%

  • 10.7Quality documentation

    Sections 10.6 to 17 of this document compile the user-oriented quality information for this operation.

• 11Quality management
  • 11.1Quality assurance

    Quality assurance framework for the INE statistics is based on the ESSCoP, the European Statistics Code of Practice made by EUROSTAT. The ESSCoP is made up of 16 principles, gathered in three areas: Institutional Environment, Processes and Products. Each principle is associated with some indicators which make possible to measure it. In order to evaluate quality, EUROSTAT provides different tools: the indicators mentioned above, Self-assessment based on the DESAP model, peer review, user satisfaction surveys and other proceedings for evaluation.

    
    

    - The quality of the information from the State Database of People with Disabilities (SDPD) is endorsed by the management of the registry itself.

    - The quality of PLPD is guaranteed through the quality of the cross-referencing made and through the coherence between the crossed data sources. For this, the use of data from the Municipal Register is essential.

  • 11.2Quality assessment

    A fundamental source for the elaboration of this statistical operation is the Ongoing Sample of Professional Life (OSPL). This statistical operation is a high quality product.

    The use of administrative sources to obtain data reduces the cost of the statistical operation without affecting their accuracy. In addition, to ensure such accuracy, the data go through validation and consistency checks between the variables used, which ensures that the accuracy and reliability of the final data is very high.

• 12Relevance
  • 12.1User needs

    The group of persons with disabilities has been a priority axis of action in the social policies developed in recent years to achieve their labour integration. In Spain, since the approval of the Law for the Social Integration of the Disabled (LSID) in 1982, this idea that achieving full integration into society requires integration into the labour market has been consolidated.

    In this context, the statistic "The Professional Life of People with Disabilities" (PLPD), stands as the first continuous source of relevant information about the working life of people with disabilities.

    It thus complements the information provided by “Employment of People with Disabilities” (EPD) and “The Salary of People with Disabilities” (SPD), constituting a statistical information system for monitoring disability in the labour market.

    Among the users of the survey are:

    -Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (CERMI)

    -Foundation ONCE.

  • 12.2User satisfaction

    The INE has carried out general user satisfaction surveys in 2007, 2010, 2013,  2016 and 2019 and it plans to continue doing so every three years. The purpose of these surveys is to find out what users think about the quality of the information of the INE statistics and the extent to which their needs of information are covered. In addition, additional surveys are carried out in order to acknowledge better other fields such as dissemination of the information, quality of some publications...

    On the INE website, in its section Methods and Projects / Quality and Code of Practice / INE quality management / User surveys are available surveys conducted to date.(Click  next link)

     

    
    

    The INE has carried out general user satisfaction surveys in 2007, 2010, 2013,  2016 and 2019 and it plans to continue doing so every three years. The purpose of these surveys is to find out what users think about the quality of the information of the INE statistics and the extent to which their needs of information are covered. In addition, additional surveys are carried out in order to acknowledge better other fields such as dissemination of the information, quality of some publications...

    On the INE website, in its section Methods and Projects / Quality and Code of Practice / INE quality management / User surveys are available surveys conducted to date. (Click  next link)

    https://ine.es/ss/Satellite?c=Page&pagename=MetodologiaYEstandares%2FINELayout&cid=1259944133654&L=1

  • 12.3Completeness

    Disability is an atypical phenomenon that affects a small percentage of the population and has significant effects on participation in the labour market for the people it affects.

    Furthermore, the information base on which the PLPD is based, the Ongoing Sample of Professional Life, was designed for purposes unrelated to the issue of disability.

    Therefore, the sample size obtained is limited and makes detailed exploitation impossible at certain levels of disaggregation.

    The information rate provided by the statistical operation is R1 = 100%, since all the information requested in the National Statistical Plan is offered.

• 13Accuracy and reliability
  • 13.1Overall accuracy

    The errors presented in the statistical process carried out for the Working Lifes of People with Disabilities (WLPD) differ from those usually raised in the general case of surveys.

    Given that the WLPD is carried out by crossing the data from the Continuous Sample of Working Lifes (CSWL) with the State Database of Persons with Disabilities (SDPD), its accuracy depends:

    - Coverage and identification errors of the CSWL

    - Coverage and identification errors of the SDPD

  • 13.2Sampling error

    The calculation of the variation coefficients of the main variables is carried out together with the performance of the operation and they are published together with the results tables. The coefficient of variation for all persons with disabilities is A1=0.59.

  • 13.3Non-sampling error

    The non-sampling errors inherent to the PLPD statistics (excluding those produced by the realization of the Continuous Sample of Working Lives, essential information base for the creation of PLPD) are the following:

    - Lack of OSPL identifiers

    - Lack of identifiers in SDPD

    - The presence of duplicates in the SDPD

    - The presence of deceased persons in the SDPD

    To control SDPD coverage errors:

    - Duplicates in SDPD are controlled (people valued throughout their lives in different provinces appear repeatedly registered)

    To control the identification errors of the BEPD:

    - SDPD identifiers are standardised

    - Data from the SDPD are crossed with Municipal Register

    - OSPL identifiers are reviewed in order to optimize their crossing with the SDPD

    - A process of linking the SDPD with OSPL is carried out through various identification variables

    - Persons with disabilities detected in the OSPL for having a degree of disability (variable registered in GSST) greater than or equal to 33% are incorporated into the VLPD statistics.

    Due to the nature of this statistic based on the crossing of records, the main reference measure for evaluating non-sampling errors may be equivalent to non-response, which in this case would be lack of identification.

    The lack of identification can be estimated through the following expression:

    Lack of identification=Records without identifier/Records involved in the crossing

    Thus, for the SDPD of 2022, the "Non-identification rate," thus established, stood at A4=0.0%.

    It should be noted that the presence of duplicates and deaths of the SDPD are investigated in great detail, and to the extent that the identification of the people of the SDPD allows it, it can be affirmed that they are detected and controlled in their entirety. That is, for correctly identified records in the BEPD, errors due to the incorrect inclusion of duplicates or deaths are minimal.

• 14Timeliness and punctuality
  • 14.1Timeliness

    The data of the statistics depend on the availability of the data from the Ongoing Sample of Professional Life (OSPL) and from the State Database of persons with disabilities (SDPD).

    Therefore, this information is not available until TP2=24 months after the end of the reference period.

  • 14.2Punctuality

    The results of the survey are published according to the INE's short-term statistics publication calendar.

    Therefore, the associated punctuality indicator is TP3=The schedule is met.

• 15Coherence and Comparability
  • 15.1Comparability - geographical

    It must be taken into account that the concept of disability used is restricted to legal terminology, so the possibility of comparisons of this statistic with any other survey on disability should be done under this premise.

    The information provided is restricted to the regional level, since the presence of disability in the population is an atypical phenomenon, so the sample size of the subsample of people with disabilities obtained for Autonomous Communities (AC) limits the exploitation of results. in the same.

  • 15.2Comparability - over time

    The statistical operation was published for the first time in December 2020 with data referring to 2018. In 2021, the results corresponding to 2016, 2017 and 2019 were published. Starting from 2021, in year t, data corresponding to year t-2 is published.

    The indicator associated with the length of the comparable time series is, therefore, CC2 = 7.   

  • 15.3Coherence - cross domain

    The Professional Life of People with Disabilities (PLPD) statistic is a pioneering statistic that provides, for the first time in Spain, information on the working life of this specific group. For these reasons there is no possible comparison with other surveys.

    Although its purposes are different from those of this statistic, it has been verified that the proportions of people with disabilities that emerge from the PLPD are consistent with those obtained for the statistic "Employment of Persons with Disabilities" (EPD), as well prepared by the INE.

  • 15.4Coherence - internal

    Since the PLPD is constructed from the data of the Ongoing Sample of Professional Life, it automatically inherits the degree of coherence between the variables used.

    The coherence between the variables from the various administrative records (related to disability) is contrasted in all phases of the statistical process.

• 16Cost and burden
  • 16.1Cost and burden

    The estimate of the budget credit necessary to finance this statistic foreseen in the 2024 Annual Program is 87.50  thousand euros.

    This operation is a model for the use of low-cost administrative sources that uses efficient methods and provides periodic figures on an aspect that is the subject of social and labour policies.

     

• 17Data revision
  • 17.1Data revision - policy

    The INE of Spain has a policy which regulates the basic aspects of statistical data revision, seeking to ensure process transparency and product quality. This policy is laid out in the document approved by the INE board of directors on 13 March of 2015, which is available on the INE website, in the section "Methods and projects/Quality and Code of Practice/INE’s Quality management/INE’s Revision policy" (link).

    This general policy sets the criteria that the different type of revisions should follow:  routine revision- it is the case of statistics whose production process includes regular revisions-; more extensive revision- when methodological or basic reference source changes take place-; and exceptional revision- for instance, when an error appears in a published statistic-.

    
    
  • 17.2Data revision - practice

    The information published is final and therefore no revision of data is carried out.

• 18Statistical processing
  • 18.1Source data

    This statistical operation uses the information derived from an integration of the statistical data provided by the Ongoing Sample of Professional Life (OSPL) with the administrative data registered in the IMSERSO State Database of Persons with Disabilities (SDPD).

  • 18.2Frequency of data collection

    In this project, the information does not come from a specific collection as such; rather, it is obtained from the cross-referencing of available information from surveys and administrative records:

    -. The information on disability comes from the State Database of People with Disabilities and is provided by the IMSERSO annually

    -. The information on from the Ongoing Sample of Professional Life is provided annually by Social Security.

  • 18.3Data collection

    It is a statistical operation that cross-references the Ongoing Sample of Professional Life with administrative records, meaning there is no field work.

  • 18.4Data validation

    The data comes from the Ongoing Sample of Professional Life. It has a validation procedure that guarantees the completeness, correctness and coherence of the information.

    Regarding the validation of the cross-referencing carried out for the incorporation of data on disability, the following actions are conducted:

    -. Comprehensive purification of the identification of the people included in the SDPD using the registry data as a reference.

    -. Completeness of the population with disabilities of the SDPD with deficient identification through the incorporation of people from the Ongoing Sample of Professional Life who have a degree of disability greater than or equal to 33% and the Social Security pensioners who have a recognized pension of permanent disability in the degree of total, absolute or major disability.

    -. Cross-referencing of SDPD with Municipal Register and VS to eliminate deceased persons.

    -. Control of duplicates in SDPD (persons valued throughout their lives in different provinces appear as registered repeated times).

    -. The validity of all these crosses is controlled in the INE by means of the conjunction of the following measures, the union of which provides criteria for admission/rejection of the cross-referencing carried out:

    1. Measure of similarity of name and surname (routine of comparison of alphanumeric strings defined and implemented in the Employment Area of people with disabilities of the INE).
    2. Date of birth comparison measure.
    3. Measure of similarity of the Physical Person Identifier (PPI).
  • 18.5Data compilation

    The data compilation process is carried out in the following phases:

    1. Obtaining the State Database of Persons with Disabilities (BEPD) refined through its cross-referencing and validation against Padron and deaths of MNP

    2. Cross-referencing of the purified SDPD with the sample of the Ongoing Sample of Professional Life to obtain a subsample of people with disabilities.

    3. Obtaining tables of final results.

  • 18.6Adjustment

    No temporary adjustments are made.

• 19Comment
  • 19.1Comment

    For interested parties, other information referring to the group of persons with disabilities is available at:

    INE Figures Nov/2009. Overview of Disabilities in Spain: https://www.ine.es/revistas/cifraine/1009.pdf

    EDAD Survey: https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/en/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736176782&menu=resultados&idp=1254735573175

    EPD: The Employment of Persons with Disabilities: https://ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/en/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736055502&menu=ultiDatos&idp=1254735976595

    WPD: The Wages of Persons with Disabilities:  https://ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/en/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736176911&menu=ultiDatos&idp=1254735976596

    EPA 2002 Special Module: Persons with disabilities and their relationship with employment:  https://ine.es/dynt3/inebase/index.htm?type=pcaxis&path=/t22/e308/meto_05/modulo/2002/&file=pcaxis

    EPA 2011 Module. Health problems and their relationship with employment: http:// https://www.ine.es/dynt3/inebase/index.htm?type=pcaxis&path=/t22/e308/meto_05/modulo/2011/&file=pcaxis