Statistics Canada released the results of its 2012 Canadian Survey on Disability. It includes information on education, employment, income, use of assistive devices and public transportation. The report also details the incidence of disabilities.
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Data from the 2012 Canadian Survey on Disability on the income characteristics of Canadians with disabilities are now available in the Canadian Socioeconomic Information Management System (CANSIM).
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This report presents a profile of persons with disabilities, based on data from the 2012 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD). The CSD provides estimates by type of disability, information on supports for persons with disabilities, and on their employment, income and participation in society. The survey was funded by Employment and Social Development Canada and conducted by Statistics Canada in the fall of 2012.
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Data from the 2012 Canadian Survey on Disability revealed that about 3.8 million Canadians aged 15 years and older, or 13.7 percent of the population, reported having a disability and 160,500 (0.6 percent of Canadian adults) were identified as having a developmental disability. The most prevalent underlying developmental conditions reported on the survey were autism, cerebral palsy and Down syndrome.
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Among the study’s findings, Statistics Canada reported that, in 2012, 10.1 percent of Canadians ages 15 to 64 – 2,338,200 individuals – reported a difficulty or impairment because of a long-term condition or health problem that limited their daily activities. Of the 2,338,200 working age people with disabilities in Canada, 1,057,100 were employed (45.2 percent), 125,700 were unemployed (5.4 percent) and 1,155,500 were not in the labour force (49.4 percent).
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This series of Power Point slides sketches the landscape of the income earned by people with disabilities across Canada. Social assistance is one of nine disability income systems, but its relative proportion has increased over the last 10 years. The presentation names 14 reasons for this trend, and six reasons for rate differences among Canadian provinces.

The Power Point and Excel files with the data to support this presentation may be found on The Centre for Research on Work Disability Policy website at: https://crwdp.ca/en/informing-roadmap-work-disability-policy-canada-0