Fifth meeting: Rio de Janeiro, 21-23 September 2005 The fifth meeting of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) was held September 21-23, 2005, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, hosted by…
Fourth meeting: Bangkok, 29 September – 1 October 2004 The fourth meeting of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics was held 29 September to 1 October in Bangkok, Thailand. The meeting was…
Third meeting: Brussels, 19-20 February 2004 The third meeting of the WG has been rescheduled and will take place February 19-20, 2004, in Brussels, Belgium. Due to the unforeseen circumstances that…
Second meeting, January 9-10, 2003: Ottawa, Canada The second meeting will focus on pursuing work begun on two topic areas at the first meeting: 1) the question matrix on the purposes of general…
Disaggregation by Disability Status: A Report on Selected Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicators The inclusion of persons with disabilities in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has…
WG-Extended Set: Results of Cognitive and Field Testing – UN ESCAP 2010 The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) carried out a set of projects to improve…
A UN International Seminar on Disability Measurement held in 2001 highlighted the need for standard principles and measures of disability in all national data collection systems and the…
The WG-SS has been used in censuses or surveys in over 75 countries, has been promoted by international aid programs (DFID/UK and DFAT/Australia) as the means to collect disability data in all…
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The Washington Group (WG) on Disability Statistics is a United Nations Statistics Commission City Group formed of representatives of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) working on…
