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…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…

…The 10th meeting of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) was held in conjunction with the Budapest Initiative Task Force on Measuring Health Status (BI). The primary focus of the meeting was to review…

…The Washington Group began to monitor the use the WG Short Set in national data collections (censuses and surveys). Preliminary analyses of data provided by countries using the WG Short Set were presented. Preliminary…

…leases: WG Country Reports on Disability About the WG Country Reports on Disability In 2019, the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) membership endorsed the development of standard reports on disability…

…The Washington Group on Disability Statistics held its 25th Annual Meeting virtually on 29 October 2025.

… a presentation focusing on the use of a mixed-method approach to assess validity and cross-subgroup comparability. Results from the 2010 NHIS using the ES-F questions related to pain were presented. The…