Health & Activity Limitation Survey, 1986 [Canada]: Adults in Institutions

The survey - its content and format - was developed through extensive consultation with all levels of government in Canada, associations of and for disabled persons, and disabled persons themselves. The objectives of HALS were: to extend coverage of the survey to include disabled persons residing in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, on Indian reserves and in institutions; to interview a sufficient number of disabled persons to enable the release of data for subprovincial (such as large municipalities and groups of small municipalities) as well as data on disabilities with a low prevalence (such as Alzheimer's disease); and to extend the definition of disability to include individuals whose disability was due solely to the presence of a psychiatric condition.