Table 3.5.A
Unmet needs due to cost for assistive aids, devices or technologies, medication, or healthcare services among persons with disabilities aged 15 years and over, by selected characteristics, 2022


Table 3.5.A
Unmet needs due to cost for assistive aids, devices or technologies, medication, or healthcare services among persons with disabilities aged 15 years and over, by selected characteristics, 2022
Table summary
This table displays the results of Unmet needs due to cost for assistive aids. The information is grouped by Selected characteristic and type of unmet need (appearing as row headers), 2022, percent and 95% confidence interval (appearing as column headers).
Selected characteristic and type of unmet need 2022
percent 95% confidence interval
lower upper
Total, persons with disabilities
Assistive aids, devices or technologies 15.5 14.7 16.3
Prescription medication 12.5 11.8 13.3
Health care therapies and services 29.1 28.2 30.1
TotalTable 3.5.A Note 1 40.7 39.6 41.7
Disability severity
Milder Table 3.5.A Note †
Assistive aids, devices or technologies 7.9 7.1 8.7
Prescription medication 8.5 7.7 9.4
Health care therapies and services 23.9 22.8 25.1
TotalTable 3.5.A Note 1 32.2 30.8 33.5
More severe
Assistive aids, devices or technologies 26.4Note * 24.9 27.9
Prescription medication 18.2Note * 16.9 19.6
Health care therapies and services 36.6Note * 34.9 38.2
TotalTable 3.5.A Note 1 52.8Note * 51.10 54.5
Age group
15 to 64 years Table 3.5.A Note †
Assistive aids, devices or technologies 15.0 14.0 15.9
Prescription medication 15.2 14.3 16.3
Health care therapies and services 34.7 33.5 35.9
TotalTable 3.5.A Note 1 45.5 44.2 46.8
65 years and over
Assistive aids, devices or technologies 16.6 15.2 18.1
Prescription medication 6.6Note * 5.7 7.7
Health care therapies and services 17.0Note * 15.6 18.5
TotalTable 3.5.A Note 1 30.2Note * 28.4 32.0
Gender
Women+
Assistive aids, devices or technologies 16.0 15.0 17.1
Prescription medication 14.2Note * 13.2 15.3
Health care therapies and services 34.3Note * 33.0 35.6
TotalTable 3.5.A Note 1 45.4Note * 44.0 46.8
Men+ Table 3.5.A Note †
Assistive aids, devices or technologies 14.7 13.7 15.9
Prescription medication 10.4 9.4 11.5
Health care therapies and services 22.3 21.0 23.8
TotalTable 3.5.A Note 1 34.5 33.0 36.1
Poverty status
Not in poverty Table 3.5.A Note †
Assistive aids, devices or technologies 14.5 13.8 15.4
Prescription medication 11.4 10.7 12.2
Health care therapies and services 28.3 27.3 29.3
TotalTable 3.5.A Note 1 39.4 38.3 40.5
In poverty
Assistive aids, devices or technologies 24.3Note * 21.0 27.8
Prescription medication 22.9Note * 19.8 26.3
Health care therapies and services 37.5Note * 33.9 41.2
TotalTable 3.5.A Note 1 53.0Note * 49.2 56.7
Note *

significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05)

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Note †

reference category

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Note 1

Includes persons with unmet needs due to cost for at least one type of disability support (e.g. assistive aids, devices or technologies, prescription medication, or health care therapies and services).

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Notes: Given that the non-binary population is small, data aggregation to a two-category gender variable is sometimes necessary to protect the confidentiality of responses provided. In these cases, individuals in the category "non-binary persons" are distributed into the other two gender categories and are denoted by the "+" symbol. The category "Men+" includes men (and/or boys), as well as some non-binary persons. The category "Women+" includes women (and/or girls), as well as some non-binary persons.
The sum of the values for each category may differ from the total due to rounding.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Survey on Disability, 2022.
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