In 2020, Ilocos Region ranked fifth among the seventeen regions of the Philippines with the highest person ratio of 10.1 percent of the household population with at least one domain of functional difficulty. The domain includes the difficulty in seeing, hearing, walking, remembering or concentrating, self-caring, and communicating.

The region recorded 488,436 persons five years old and over who have at least one functional difficulty domain which was equivalent to 10.1 percent of the total 4,812,461 household population five years old and over.

The age group 60 to 64 years old recorded 60,013 persons which is the highest among age brackets in the Ilocos Region with at least one domain of functional difficulty. Of the 60,013 persons, 31,560 or 52.59 percent were female, while 28,453 or 47.41 percent were male. The age group 5 to 9 years old has the least number of persons with at least one domain of functional difficulty at 4,448 wherein 1,979 or 44.49 percent were females, and 2,469 or 55.51 percent were males.

The sex ratio of the household population five years old and over with at least one domain of functional difficulty in Ilocos region was posted at 78. This implies that there were 78 males for every 100 females five years old and over with at least one domain of functional difficulty.

Among the six domains or categories, difficulty in seeing has the highest number of the household population five years old and over with at least one domain of functional difficulty in the region. It composed of 49.87 percent of the total number. Difficulty in hearing and walking follows at 15.52 percent and 15.31 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, difficulty in communicating recorded the least number of household population five years old and over with at least one domain of functional difficulty in region at 4.78 percent.

Across all the domains of functional difficulty, the majority of the reported cases were mild. The majority of the mild cases were from the domain of Seeing with 358,258 cases. According to magnitude, most of the severe cases were from Self-caring at 10,350 cases. Meanwhile, there were a total of 22,011 cases that were not reported throughout all of the domains.

SGD. ATTY. SHEILA O. DE GUZMAN 
Regional Director, RSSO I