Fourteenth Meeting of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics October 8-10 2014: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Overview The fourteenth meeting of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG)
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
In order to collect internationally comparable data, it is important that the WG question be used without any changes to the wording of questions, order of questions, response
22 September 2025 Disability in the United States The Importance of Disability Disability is both a multidimensional concept and experience. Disability can affect anyone at any time – from birth
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
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
Seventh meeting: Dublin, 19-21 September 2007 The work group on the short set addressed the use of the short set as a screener and presented an alternative (optional) question on upper body function.
The introductory statement, “The next questions ask about difficulties you may have doing certain activities.” was included for the purpose of transitioning from topic to topic in a census
Download the Short Set - Enhanced Questions below Translations of the WG-SS Enhanced can be found here: Translations of WG Question Sets About the Washington Group Short Set on
About the WG/ILO LFS-DM The WG / ILO Labor Force Survey Disability Module (LFS-DM) was developed, tested and adopted by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Washington Group on
