Disaggregation by Disability: A way forward This article gives an overview of the progress made using the WG questions for the purposes of disaggregation. In this article, Mitchell Loeb, a Health…
The Washington Group Questions And The Disability Continuum Data based on the Washington Group questions can be used in different ways to get at the diversity among persons who report a range of…
Data To Leave No One Behind And The Washington Group This blog from Development Initiatives discusses how the Washington Group questions advance the goal of using data to leave no one behind. It…
Should The Washington Group Questions Determine If Difficulties Are Long-term Or Short-term? This blog explains the reasoning behind the lack of any explicit mention of whether an activity limitation…
Video 1: Maybe you’ve heard about the Washington group on disability statistics. I’d like to tell you a little bit about it. The WG was established under the UN statistical commission in 2002…
Video 4: I want to tell you a little bit more about the short set of questions. They were developed for a number of reasons – we needed questions that were brief, that were simple, that were…
Video 6: I wanted to talk a little bit about data collection methodology - some of the things that we do in the WG that apply to any data collection anywhere. We think that these are good methods…
Video 2: I’d like to tell you a little bit about the approach of the WG in measuring disability. From the very beginning we decided that we needed a framework to build our modules on and we chose…
Video 3: I’d like to tell you a little bit about one the tools that we’ve developed - that’s the short set of questions on disability that was designed specifically for censuses but has since…
Video 5: Now I want to talk a little bit about data analysis using the short set of questions. We need data so that we can measure disability prevalence rates. We want to make comparisons, not only…
