Microcensus 2002, 2. quarter: Utilisation of PC and Internet, Impairments and Disabilities (SUF edition)

Full edition for scientific use. More than 37 million handicapped people live in the European Union. The Council of Europe has declared the year 2003 the European year of handicapped people to give them a chance to make people all over Europe aware of their interests. One aim is the development of the measures needed to better integrate handicapped persons in all parts of social life. In this context, the European Commission consigned a EU-wide study (performed as an ad-hoc module to the LFS) on the employment of handicapped people in the year 2002. The goal was to collect a comprehensive and connected data set on the employments situation of handicapped people. In Austria, the study was conducted as a Microcensus special survey (“handicaps and disabilities”) in June 2002. Starting point of the survey program was the question on lasting health problems or handicaps. The term “lasting” denoted a time span of at least 6 months. The basic concept of health problems is broad. It includes physical injury, sensory problems (e.g. subjectively felt visual impairments despite wearing glasses), heart- and breathing troubles and walking impairment, as well as other progressive diseases (e.g. cancer, Parkinson disease, etc.), psychological problems and learning disabilities. In addition to the question on the existence of a lasting health problem or a handicap, it was asked whether this problem or handicap affected the everyday life. “Everyday life” denotes important personal performances, for instance eating, washing/bathing, exercises such as climbing the stairs, going shopping, cooking or doing the laundry. An impairment of theses performances exists if they persist despite the usage of aids (e.g. hearing aid, glasses), the utilisation of medical treatments and the help of other people.

供科研使用的完整版数据集。欧盟境内现有超过3700万残疾人。欧洲委员会（Council of Europe）将2003年定为欧洲残疾人年，旨在提升全欧民众对残疾人权益的关注，推动社会各界了解残疾人的利益诉求。本次活动的核心目标之一是制定相关举措，以助力残疾人更好地融入社会生活各领域。

在此背景下，欧盟委员会（European Commission）于2002年委托开展了一项覆盖全欧盟的残疾人就业研究，该研究作为劳动力调查（Labour Force Survey, LFS）的临时专项模块实施，旨在全面收集并整合残疾人就业状况相关数据集。

2002年6月，奥地利以"残疾与障碍"为主题开展了微观普查（Microcensus）专项调查，作为本次欧盟级研究的组成部分。本次调查的起始核心问题为“是否存在长期健康问题或残疾”，其中“长期”指症状持续时长至少6个月。

健康问题的定义范畴较为宽泛，涵盖躯体损伤、感官障碍（如佩戴眼镜后仍主观感知的视力受损）、心肺疾病、行走障碍，以及其他进展性疾病（如癌症、帕金森病（Parkinson disease）等）、心理问题与学习障碍。

除上述健康问题或残疾的存在性询问外，调查还进一步确认该健康问题或残疾是否对日常生活造成影响。“日常生活”指个人核心日常活动，例如进食、洗漱沐浴、爬楼梯、购物、烹饪或洗衣等。若在使用辅助器具（如助听器、眼镜）、接受医疗干预及获得他人帮助后，上述日常活动仍存在障碍，则认定为日常活动受该问题影响。