Disability Resources for the ESCWA Region The UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia’s (ESCWA) Disability Statistics program aims to improve the production, dissemination and…
Disability Disaggregation: Envisioning Inclusive Development Inclusion is the guiding principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which includes the pledge to leave no one behind…
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…
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…
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…
In a few countries we have learned that hearing aids are non-existent. In these cases it would be appropriate to omit the clause “…even if using a hearing aid.”On the other hand, to indiscriminately…
The intention with the Short Set questions is to record, with the exception of seeing and hearing, difficulties people have with unaccommodated functioning (without the use of assistive devices or…
The six WG questions were designed for a census context (general population 5 years of age and above) where the collection of disability data in a country may be otherwise very limited. The WG has…
