The employment of people with intellectual disabilities in Canada

People 50.0% 39.7% with intellectual 22.3% 25.0% 13.1% disabilities are 6.8% nearly twice as 0.0% likely as others Intellectual Others with Intellectual Others with with disabilities to disability disabilities disability disabilities have partly-met Help with everyday activities Aids/devices needs for help Status of need with everyday activities such as Receive all needed Receive some Receive none [...] Those high and low rates help explain the relatively high and low ‘concentrations’ of people with intellectual disabilities in the distribution across 2 provinces and territories shown on Table 1, taking the percentage of people without disabilities as the benchmark for comparison. [...] For example, 14.9% of working-age people with intellectual disabilities are 55 to 64 years, compared with 14.8% of people without disabilities but 34.5% of others with disabilities (Table 2). [...] In contrast, 29.3% of people with intellectual disabilities are 15 to 24 years compared with only 6.7% of others with disabilities but 20.9% of people without disabilities. [...] While 43.3% with intellectual disabilities have needs in this area that are fully met compared with 32.4% of others with disabilities, 45.6% with intellectual disabilities have some level of unmet need, with 39.7% receiving some help and 5.9% receiving none of the help needed.