European Health Survey  
LIMITATIONS ON DAILY BASIC ACTIVITIES
Highest level of difficulty to perform some BADL by sex and social class based on reference person's occupation. Population aged 65 years old and over.
Units: thousands of persons

	TOTAL	Without difficulty	With Enough difficulty	With a great deal of difficulty	Unable to do so	
Both sexes	
    TOTAL	8,220.3	6,515.5	764.6	347.2	593.0	
    I	726.1	650.4	27.1	17.5	31.0	
    II	522.5	442.6	35.8	13.3	30.7	
    III	1,383.8	1,153.5	121.5	46.2	62.7	
    IV	1,307.7	1,046.4	140.4	50.6	70.3	
    V	2,838.8	2,202.2	285.2	125.4	226.0	
    VI	1,183.5	830.9	122.3	77.9	152.3	
    No data recorded	257.9	189.4	32.3	16.3	19.9	
Men	
    TOTAL	3,575.1	3,040.8	264.1	110.1	160.0	
    I	375.5	365.3	2.8	4.1	3.2	
    II	242.6	216.4	15.9	3.2	7.0	
    III	608.0	523.2	50.2	14.6	20.0	
    IV	597.8	491.4	57.0	24.4	25.0	
    V	1,291.9	1,088.5	103.8	33.1	66.4	
    VI	444.0	343.3	34.4	27.9	38.4	
    No data recorded	15.3	.	.	.	.	
Women	
    TOTAL	4,645.3	3,474.8	500.5	237.1	432.9	
    I	350.5	285.1	24.3	13.4	27.8	
    II	279.9	226.2	19.9	10.1	23.7	
    III	775.9	630.3	71.2	31.6	42.7	
    IV	709.9	555.0	83.4	26.2	45.3	
    V	1,547.0	1,113.7	181.4	92.3	159.6	
    VI	739.5	487.6	87.9	50.0	113.9	
    No data recorded	242.6	176.9	32.3	13.6	19.9	
Notes:

.Data protected by statistical secrecy

1) BADL= Basic Activities of Daily Living.
 Basic activities considered: feeding oneself, sitting down, getting up from a chair or a bed, getting into bed,  Getting dressed, getting undressed, using the lavatory, taking a shower or a bath.

 I - Directors and managers of establishments with 10 or more wage earners and professionals traditionally associated with university graduate degrees.
 II. Directors and managers of establishments with less than 10 wage earners, professionals traditionally associated with university degrees and other technical support professionals. Athletes and artists.
 III. Intermediate occupations and self-employed workers.
 IV. Supervisors and workers in skilled technical occupations.
 V. Skilled primary sector workers and other semi-skilled workers.
 VI. Non-skilled workers.

 The symbol '.'  shall be deemed as data which cannot be given due to an insufficient sample
 The symbol '..' shall be deemed as information that is not collected for that classification in the table
 The data corresponding to cells with less than 35 thousand persons must be considered with caution, as they may be affected by a high degree of sampling error
Source: National Statistics Institute