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Altogether 12.9 per cent of the household population aged 16 or over experienced severe activity limitations in 2022

release | Statistics on living conditions 2022

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According to Statistics Finland, 12.9 per cent of all persons aged 16 or over belonging to the household population experienced severe activity limitations in 2022. There were around 580,000 persons with severe activity limitations. Activity limitations were most common among the elderly. Nearly 55 per cent of those aged over 84 experienced severe activity limitations.

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  • Activity limitations were most common among the elderly. Elderly people most often experienced difficulties with walking or climbing stairs.
  • Among young people, the most common activity limitation was related to remembering or concentrating.
  • Activity limitations are measured with an indicator consisting of six basic activities: seeing, hearing, walking and climbing steps, remembering and concentrating, self-care and communicating in one's own native language.
  • When a person experiences a lot of difficulties in any of the six basic functions or cannot function at all in at least one of them, the person is considered to have disability.
  • The definition of persons with disabilities complies with the recommendation of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics operating under the United Nations Statistical Commission.

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