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Table 9
Reasons why people with disabilities do not have the assistive technology they need, adults and children, provinces and territories, Canada, 2006
| Provinces | Children 5 to 14 | Adults 15 and over | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost- purchase or maintenance |
Limitation not serious enough |
Don't know where to get it and Not available locally |
On a waiting list |
Other | Cost- purchase or maintenance |
Limitation not serious enough1 |
Don't know where to get it and Not available locally |
On a waiting list |
Other | |
| ratio | ||||||||||
| Total | 56.64 | F | 15.52 | 2.42E | 19.41 | 56.14 | 6.41 | 10.76 | 1.56E | 22.32 |
| N.L. | 61.33 | F | 17.72E | F | 16.43E | 57.30 | 6.82E | 8.06 | F | 21.34 |
| P.E.I. | 77.25 | F | F | F | F | 63.30 | 7.09E | 7.48E | F | 18.42 |
| N.S. | 63.33 | F | 11.11E | F | 13.09E | 61.93 | 4.54E | 7.08 | 1.7E | 21.25 |
| N.B. | 57.75 | F | 8.88E | F | 25.58E | 57.30 | 7.12E | 8.81 | F | 20.24 |
| Que. | 50.47 | F | 20.28E | F | 20.31E | 46.93 | 6.49E | 10.18 | 4.53E | 29.60 |
| Ont. | 56.31 | F | 13.77E | F | 21.71 | 57.99 | 5.63E | 11.42 | F | 20.81 |
| Man. | 53.86 | F | 22.91E | F | F | 55.96 | 9.87E | 8.09 | F | 22.62 |
| Sask. | 54.01 | F | 15.35E | F | 20.25E | 55.04 | 8.02E | 11.53 | F | 21.05 |
| Alta. | 57.46 | F | 15.58E | F | 18.06E | 56.91 | 7.06 | 9.42E | F | 23.42 |
| B.C. | 61.41 | F | 16.20E | F | 14.41E | 57.95 | 7.47E | 11.95E | F | 19.87 |
| Territories | 51.78E | F | 16.29E | F | 16.56E | 35.27 | 3.98E | 22.35 | 4.15E | 29.54 |
| 1. Limitation not serious enough includes the individual, their doctor, and their insurance company.
Note: Territories includes the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The sum of the values for each category may differ from the total due to rounding. Source: Statistics Canada, Participation and Activity Limitation Survey, 2006. |
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