Table 7
Type of accommodation required to be able to work, employed persons with activity limitations, Canada, 2006

Table 7
Type of accommodation required to be able to work, employed persons with activity limitations, Canada, 2006
 Table summary
 This table displays the results of type of accommodation required to be able to work. The information is grouped by type of accommodation appearing as row headers, requiring accommodation to work, accommodation made available as a proporation of those requiring it, women, men appearing as column headers, calculated using percentage as a unit of measure.
Type of accommodation Requiring accommodation to work Accommodation made available as a proportion of those requiring it
Women Men Women Men
percentage
Because of my condition, I require … to be able to work
No accommodation required 56* 65 … …
Modified hours or days or reduced work hours 23* 17 82 82
A special chair/back support 20* 13 68 64
Job redesign (modified or different duties) 14 14 67 64
A modified or ergonomic workstation 14* 7 70 72
Appropriate parking 5* 3E 78 73
Accessible washrooms 5* 2E 88 97
An accessible elevator 4* 2E 79 73
Other equipment, help or work arrangement 4E 3E 62E 73
Accessible transportation 4E* 2E 75 73E
Human support, such as a reader, sign language interpreter, job coach or personal assistant 2E 3E 50E 64
Handrails, ramps 2E 2E 81 F
Technical aids, such as a voice synthesizer, a TTY, an infrared system or portable notetaker 1E 2E 56E 42E
A computer with Braille, large print, voice recognition, or a scanner F 1E 64E 51E
Communication aids, such as Braille or large print reading material or recording equipment F F x F
… not applicable
x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
E use with caution
F too unreliable to be published
* statistically significant difference between women and men at p < 0.05
Source: Statistics Canada, Participation and Activity Limitation Survey, 2006.
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