The purpose of the Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD) is to provide information about Canadian adults whose daily activities are limited because of a long-term condition or health-related problem. This information will be used to plan and evaluate services, programs and policies for adults with disabilities to help enable their full participation in Canadian society.
Includes:
- Table 1: Population aged 15 years and over with and without disabilities, by sex and age group, 2017
- Table 2: Population aged 15 years and over with a disability, by disability type, 2017
- Table 3: Population aged 15 years and over with a disability, by global severity class, 2017
- Table 4: Population aged 25 to 64 years with and without disabilities, by labour force status, 2017
- Table 5: Median after-tax income for persons with disabilities, 25 to 64 years of age, 2017
- Table 6: Population aged 15 to 64 years with and without disabilities, by labour force status, 2017
- Table 7: Median after-tax income for persons with disabilities, 15 to 64 years of age, 2017
- Table 8: Population aged 15 years and over with and without disabilities, by visible minority status, 2017
- Table 9: Population aged 15 years and over with and without disabilities, by immigrant status, 2017
- Table 10: Population aged 15 years and over with and without disabilities, by highest level of education, 2017
These data were acquired as a custom order from Statistics Canada. The data are not typically available at the geographic levels provided here, as the CSD is designed to report on Canada, the provinces and the territories. Much of the data are suppressed or should be used with caution (rating = E).
This list shows all CANSIM tables related to this survey on the Statistics Canada website for Canada, the provinces and the territories.
More information on the Canadian Survey on Disability can be found here.
Note on the difference between 2012 and 2017 data:
For 2017, the CSD included the full implementation of the Disability Screening Questions (DSQ) used for identifying persons with disabilities. In 2016, the Activities of Daily Living question on the Census, which serves to create the sampling frame for the CSD, was replaced by new filter questions taken from the DSQ framework. Qualitative and quantitative testing have shown that the new filter questions allows for better coverage overall of persons with disabilities, and especially of persons with disability types that are less visible, such as disabilities related to pain, memory, learning, development and mental health. One important consequence of this full implementation is that the disability rates observed in the 2017 CSD are not comparable to those of the 2012 CSD, but are very much consistent with what was expected and observed during testing.