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The WG has built a network of partnerships and collaborations to aid in fulfilling its mandate. These include National Statistical Organizations (NSOs), Disabled People’s Organizations (DPOs) and [International] Non-governmental Organizations ([I]NGOs) as well as National Development Ministries.

The WG questions are intended to be administered individually to each person selected to be a respondent in a data collection. In some population censuses or sample surveys, only specific members of the household are selected as a...

The question sets developed by the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) are intended to be embedded in other ongoing data collections. This might be a census or a survey, for example a Labor Force Survey (LFS), Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), or Living Standard Measurement Study (LSMS). These guidelines focus specifically on the WG modules and are intended to accompany the guidelines already developed for these ongoing surveys. Standard interviewing best practices will apply.

The inclusion of persons with disabilities in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has become an uncontested priority with the principle of ‘leaving no one behind’ in sharp contrast with the past when people with disabilities were largely excluded from the global development agenda. To ensure people with disabilities are not left behind, sufficient data must be collected so that all person-level Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators can be disaggregated by disability status. This will allow for the comprehensive monitoring of the well-being and inclusion of persons with disabilities, and the advancement of their rights.

This document is intended to illustrate that countries can, with available data, disaggregate a number of SDG indicators by disability status.

The report summarizes the results obtained from 39 WG member countries on disaggregated SDG data for 13 selected indicators.