Statistics on the Employment of Persons with Disabilities Measures to encourage employment Percentage of wage earners with disabilities, as compared with the total wage earners, in companies with more than 50 workers, except Special Employment Centres Unidades: thousands of persons and percentages Total wage earners Wage earners with disabilities Percentage Total 2014 6.257,1 159,3 2,5 2013 6.030,6 149,9 2,5 2012 6.077,6 135 2,2 2011 6.340 138,8 2,2 2010 6.564,8 131,8 2 2009 6.312,4 115,5 1,8 Public sector wage earners who make Social Security contributions 2014 1.856,6 59 3,2 2013 1.846,7 58,6 3,2 2012 1.911,2 54,8 2,9 2011 2.000,1 54,7 2,7 2010 1.949,5 52,2 2,7 2009 1.872,3 39,6 2,1 Private sector wage earners who make Social Security contributions 2014 4.400,5 100,2 2,3 2013 4.183,9 91,3 2,2 2012 4.166,4 80,2 1,9 2011 4.339,9 84,1 1,9 2010 4.615,3 79,6 1,7 2009 4.440,1 75,8 1,7 Notas: This considers persons with recognised disabilities, that is, those with a degree of disability that is greater than or equal to 33%, according to the assessment procedure set out in RD 1971/1999 and amended by RD 1364/2012. 2) The results of cells whose value is lower than 5.0 (5,000 persons or households) must be considered cautiously, as they may be affected by large sampling errors 3) The data refers solely to wage earners who make Social Security contributions and who do so in ordinary centres. This excludes Special employment centres and those civil servants who make contributions to State Mutual Provident Societies Fuente: National Statistics Institute