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Washington Group on Disability Statistics |
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The fifth meeting of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) was held September 21-23, 2005, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, hosted by Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE), in collaboration with CORDE.
Detailed Meeting Program
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Objectives for the 5th meeting:
The meeting was organized into 10 sessions. Objectives for the 5th meeting were to:
Present work on
continued development of the general disability measure.
Present work on the
written protocols and plans for implementing the general disability measure,
including lessons learned from regional workshops.
Present work on the
development of extended measurement sets and the associated papers.
Discuss methodological
issues related to proxy and nonresponse and to continue discussion of full
population coverage.
Discuss
strategic issues.
Papers
and Presentations for
the Fifth Meeting
Opening Session
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Session
2: General Measure of Disability:
Proposed Revisions and
Recommendations
PROPOSED Washington Group General Measure on Disability
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KB
Statement of Rationale
for the Washington Group General
Measure on Disability
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27
KB
Internationally Comparable General
Disability Measures
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KB
Session
3: Implementing the Pre-test of the
General Disability
Measure
Implementation
Protocol for Testing the Washington Group (WG) General Measure on
Disability
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KB
Appendix 1: Question Batteries and
Question by Question
Specifications
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KB
Appendix 2: Translation Protocol
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KB
Appendix
4: Cognitive Testing Interview Guide
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KB
Appendix 5: Field
Test
Approaches,
Instruments,
and
Instructions
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Appendix 6: Interviewer Instructions
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KB
Appendix
7:Analysis
Plan for Pilot Testing Census Questions
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KB
Question Specifications for the Cognitive Test Protocol
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Purpose of Testing Census Questions on Disability
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PPT
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Cognitive Testing: Washington Group Questions
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PPT
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KB
Cognitive Interview Obstacles
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KB
Field
Test Options
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KB
Translation Protocol
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KB
Protocol for Interviewers
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KB
Analysis Plan
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KB
pre-test Implementation
Documents
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25
KB
Session
4: Report on Regional Workshops
Proceedings and
Outcomes of Washington Group
Workshops
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24
KB
Mauritian
Experience in Participating
in the Washington Group Workshop
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55
KB
Kenyan
Perspective to Participating
on Washington Group Workshop:
Field and Cognitive Testing
Plans
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28
KB
WHO/UNESCAP Disability Question Set Field Testing:
Overview and
Preliminary
Results
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4.2 MB
Report of Participating
Countries on UNESCAP/WHO Field
Test
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Disability Statistics:
India
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PPT
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KB
Plan for
Future Washington Group
Workshops and pre-tests
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PPT
19
KB
Session
5: Conceptual Issues Related
to Disability Measurement
Using the ICF
as a Framework for Washington Group Measures
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KB
Session
6: Proposed Approach for Development
of Extended Measurement
Set/s
Extended Questions Sets: Purpose, Characteristics and Topic Areas
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DOC
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KB
Washington Group on Disability Statistics:
Extended
Sets
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KB
Extended Questions
Sets: Purpose, Characteristics and Topic Areas
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77
KB
Extended Questions
Sets: Participation and
Enviromental Factors
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174
KB
Session
7: Discussion of Methodological
Issues Related to
Full Population
Coverage
Methodological Preparations for an Irish
Post Census
National
Disability Survey in 2006
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DOC
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Disability
Questions in
Censuses and
Surveys:
A Literature
Review of
Methodological
Issues -
Proxy
Response,
Nonresponse
and Mode of
Administration
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DOC
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KB
View/download PPT
194
KB
Challenges in Collecting
Disability Statistics in a Large Scale Exercise
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271 KB
Methodological Preparations
for an Irish Post Censal
National Disability
Survey
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KB
Methods to Detect and Control Bias in
Comparative Analyses of Disability Statistics
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PPT
3 MB
Session
8: UNSD Report
United Nations
Collection of National
Disability Statistics
from Population and Housing
Censuses and Related
National Surveys and
Administrative Registers
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PPT
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KB
Session 9:
Strategic Issues
Summary of
Country Reports and
Discussion
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KB
View/download
XLS
134
KB
Report on the Joint UNECE/WHO/Eurostat
Meeting on the Measurement of Health Status, Geneva, May 24-26, 2004
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29
KB
Update on Revisions
to the UN and UNECE Documents, “Principles and
Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses”
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21
KB
Update on World Bank
Activities Related to Disability Statistics
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34
KB
Washington
Group Governance
Issues
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PPT
26
KB
Session
10: Next Steps and Objectives
for the 6th
Meeting in Africa
Next
Steps and Objectives
for the 6th
Meeting in Africa
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PPT
39
KB
Workgroup
Contacts
Five workgroups will address
major next steps of the WG. Chairs have been identified for each
workgroup. The chairs serve as the contact for
each group. Information on the workgroup topics and chairs is provided
below. WG members who wish to
volunteer to participate in one of these groups, please contact the
workgroup chairs.
Workgroup on
General Measure/s
Chair: Barbara Altman, USA
Workgroup on
Implementation
Chair: Joseph Muli-Kalavi,
Kenya, International Development Project
Alternate: Hasheem Mannan,
USA
This workgroup will serve as a resource for countries conducting the WG
pre-test including any revisions needed to the implementation protocol.
Workgroup on
Extended Measure/s
Chair: Marijke de Kleijn,
The Netherlands
Next steps for this workgroup is the
development of a plan (blueprint) for extended sets, addressing the
purpose, rationale, justification for the set and addressing international
comparability. The workgroup will also formulate possible options for
additional domains to be measured to address the purpose of equalization
of opportunities and recommend additional domains for inclusion on one
extended measurement set. Furthermore, this workgroup will also begin
development of an extended set on environmental questions.
Chair: Howard Meltzer, United Kingdom
This workgroup will address methodological issues of importance to the Washington Group.
Workgroup on
Analysis
Chair: Dan Mont,
World Bank
During the annual meeting in Rio, this new workgroup was formed in order
to plan and conduct analyses that will inform the WG work on the general
measure.
Contacts
Beth
Rasch
Associate Service Fellow
National Center for Health Statistics
3311
Toledo Road, Room 6110
Hyattsville, MD 20782
Telephone: 301-458-4248
Fax:
301-458-4037
Email: Erasch@cdc.gov
Barbara
Altman
Special Assistant for Disability Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
3311 Toledo Road, Room 6111
Hyattsville, MD 20782 (USA)
(Phone) 301-458-4654
(Fax) 301-458-4038
(Email) BAltman@cdc.gov
Jennifer Madans
Associate Director for Science
National Center for Health Statistics
3311 Toledo Road, Room 7202
Hyattsville, MD 20782 (USA)
(Phone) 301-458-4500
(Fax) 301-458-4020
(Email)
JMadans@cdc.gov
Hasheem Mannan
Associate Service Fellow
National Center for Health Statistics
3311 Toledo Road, Room 6413
Hyattsville, MD 20782 (USA)
Telephone: 301-458-4664
Fax: 301-458-4038
Email:
HMannan@cdc.gov
This page last reviewed
September 09, 2008
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