General household survey - Statistics South Africa

Statistics South Africa 95
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6. Disabilities
6.1 Population aged 5 years and older that have some difficulty or are unable to do basic activities, by province, 2011
Thousands
Mpumalanga
Limpopo South Africa
Northern
Cape Free State North West Gauteng
KwaZulu-
Natal
Eastern
Cape
Western
Cape
Degree of difficulty with which basic activities are
carried out
Some difficulty 226 302 419 81 215 175 749 226 209 2 603
A lot of difficulty 53 39 55 13 30 29 75 44 21 359
Unable to do 4 9 5 2 1 5 4 1 7 39
Total 283 350 479 97 246 208 828 271 237 3 001
Seeing
Some difficulty 69 87 149 26 51 51 121 49 75 679
A lot of difficulty 16 13 26 10 14 10 25 16 12 141
Unable to do 1 4 4 1 3 2 3 2 20
Total 86 104 179 37 68 63 149 65 89 840
Hearing
Some difficulty 51 82 151 17 42 39 83 35 100 600
A lot of difficulty 38 47 61 13 23 19 33 14 34 283
Unable to do 17 21 27 5 11 17 23 10 14 145
Total 106 150 239 35 76 75 140 59 148 1 028
Walking
Some difficulty 52 148 177 25 85 123 66 40 50 767
A lot of difficulty 23 49 62 10 20 38 28 19 15 263
Unable to do 5 10 19 3 6 11 11 2 9 77
Total 80 207 259 38 111 172 105 61 74 1 107
Remembering and concentrating
Some difficulty 64 159 154 22 43 37 107 41 156 782
A lot of difficulty 36 80 69 16 18 32 33 26 85 396
Unable to do 21 56 61 33 22 71 40 32 49 386
Total 122 295 284 70 83 140 180 99 290 1 564
Self-care
General Household Survey, July 2011