Registered disability

Persons with disabilities are recorded in several public administration registers, given they hold certain statuses or applied for/receive certain benefits. These statuses and benefits are: federal long-term care allowance (“Pflegegeld”), including care level; the Austrian disability pass, including degree of disability and additional entries; the status “registered persons with disabilities according to the Disability Employment Act" (“begünstigt behindert”), including degree of disability and additional entries; and a degree of disability below 50 %.

For the purposes of the Disability and Participation Statistics, these groups identified in register data are referred to as persons with “registered disability”.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Population statistics (reference date 31 December 2022); Federation of Social Insurances (reference date 31 December 2022; Service of the Ministry of Social Affairs (“Sozialministeriumservice“; reference date 31 December 2022, with exception of the dataset on persons with a degree of disability below 50%: reference date 14 June 2023). Compiled on 10 September 2024.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, School and higher education Statistics (reference date 31 October 2022); Population statistics (reference date 31 December 2022); Federation of Social Insurances (reference date 31 December 2022); Service of the Ministry of Social Affairs (“Sozialministeriumservice”; reference date 31 December 2022, with exception of the dataset on persons with a degree of disability below 50%: reference date 14 June 2023). – Not stated: Persons of compulsory school age with education abroad, home schooling or persons exempt from compulsory schooling as well as persons of compulsory school age whose school attendance is not known (e.g. due to the different reference date); Schools for special education: Including students who are taught according to a special education curriculum in other schools. Compiled on 18 February 2025.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Register-based Labour Market Careers (reference date 31 December 2022); Population statistics (reference date 31 December 2022); Federation of Social Insurances (reference date 31 December 2022); Service of the Ministry of Social Affairs (“Sozialministeriumservice”; reference date 31 December 2022, with exception of the dataset on persons with a degree of disability below 50%: reference date 14 June 2023). Compiled on 18 February 2025.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Register of educational attainment (reference date 31 October 2022); Population statistics (reference date 31 December 2022); Federation of Social Insurances (reference date 31 December 2022); Service of the Ministry of Social Affairs (“Sozialministeriumservice”; reference date 31 December 2022, with exception of the dataset on persons with a degree of disability below 50%: reference date 14 June 2023). – Compulsory school: Including persons without a compulsory school leaving certificate; Not stated: Highest level of education completed unknown due to the different reference date of the register of educational attainment. Compiled on 18 February 2025.

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2025-02-18	file	15% of people with a “registered disability” are in employment	117.2 KB
2024-09-10	file	Around 760 000 people with a “registered disability” in Austria	111.3 KB

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Registered disability

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Persons with “registered disability” 2022 by sex and age (table)

Persons with “registered disability” in institutional households 2022 by sex and type of institution (table)

Participants in formal education with “registered disability” 2022 by sex and educational institution (table)

Persons with “registered disability” 2022 by sex and labour force status (table)

Persons aged 15 and over with “registered disability” 2022 by sex and highest educational attainment (table)

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