Category of the declaration (by disability situations)

This classification variable is the most important in statistics because it constitutes the backbone from which other classification criteria are derived.

The declaration presents certain disability situations that may affect any member of the family unit or ascendants who do not achieve this status. The typologies that have been identified are the following:

• Declarant: Group of declarations in which there is only one disability situation, this corresponds to the first or only holder of the declaration.
• Spouse: Group of declarations in which, although there is only one disability, this corresponds to the second holder on the declaration (can only occur in joint declarations of married couples or in individual declarations with a deduction for a spouse who is not legally separated and has a disability).
• Descendants: Group of statements in which, although there is only one disability situation, it corresponds to one or more children.
• Ancestors: Group of declarations in which, although there is only one disability situation, it corresponds to one or more ascendants.
• Multiple disability situations: Group of declarations in which disability situations affect more than one member of the declaration and with different kinship in relation to the declarant. Concurrence of disability situations with different family relationships that are revealed in the declaration.

This classification criterion is used in Block II and Block III of the statistical tables with this detail and in Block IV this classification is presented with a different aggregation level: "Declarant" and "Spouse" are grouped into a single category and the rest into another category called "Other situations". This summary grouping appears in the tables under the name "Disability statement type".