…Cognitive Interviewing For The Washington Group Writing effective questions that produce reliable data requires testing. Cognitive interviewing is an important methodology for making sure that respondents are…
… identified as having a disability will not only be an undercount but will not be a representative group of people. That is, the breakdown of their characteristics (e.g., gender, income, urban/rural) may not…
… of the populations most likely to be excluded from development, including, among other vulnerable groups, people with disabilities. This requires the routine collection of disability indicators, both those…
… A Short History on the Question Sets Developed by the Washington Group In 2001, the International Seminar on the Measurement of Disability was held in New York. During this meeting participants agreed that…
… by: Claire F. O’Reilly, Caroline Jagoe, Kavita Brahmbhatt and Oscar Lindow The Washington Group questions are increasingly used in humanitarian action. However, the practical challenges of…
…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…
…The sixth meeting of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics was held October 10-13, 2006 in Kampala, Uganda, hosted by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics. The Washington Group has developed a short set of questions…
… areas of children and institutionalized populations. Overview The eighth meeting of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics was held October 29-31 in Manila, Philippines hosted by the Philippine…
… of the WG to address the issue of dealing with institutionalized populations at that time. Two workgroups were constituted to look more closely at the measurement of child disability and the development of a…
