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This blog highlights the 2023/2024 Kenya Housing Survey as a model for collecting data on disability and aspects of the housing environment, including specific infrastructure characteristics, in a national data collection. The resulting data is crucial to better understand the needs of individuals with disabilities, and promote inclusive living with a goal of ensuring that every dwelling is an accessible and supportive environment.

09/02/2024

This blog presents five criteria developed to help humanitarian workers make the best decisions regarding the use of the WG tools for the collection of disability data and data disaggregation by disability in their work.

13/06/2022

When a disability starts affects how that disability influences someone's life. How can we add to the Washington Group questions to collect this information?

17/10/2020

Surveys are not always delivered face to face, and especially in times like the current Covid-19 pandemic situation, the option of delivering a survey over the phone can be attractive – both in terms of not having interviewers be a vector of disease transmission and for improving the response rate from people reticent to speak face to face with someone they do not know in the middle of a health-related lockdown.

10/07/2020
Differences in Reported Disability Prevalence Rates: Is something wrong if I don’t get 15%?

The World Disability Report is often cited as estimating that 15% of the population has a disability, but most surveys using the Washington Group Questions get a lower rate. This blog explores the reasons behind this difference, and how it should be interpreted.

Categories: Most popular, Disability statistics, SDGs and Disability

22/08/2019 - 22/08/2019

In some countries, people with albinism are automatically considered to have a disability and are also the victims of multiple forms of discrimination some very extreme. This blog addresses the three key questions: Can the WG-SS identify people with albinism? Are people with albinism included among those identified as having a disability by the WG-SS? If the WG-SS can’t identify people with albinism, can they be modified to do so?

Categories: Disability statistics, SDGs and Disability

22/08/2019 - 22/08/2019
Learning From The Use Of The Washington Group Questions In Development And Humanitarian Programmes

This post discusses issues in collecting disability data in humanitarian situations, and the experience of using the Washington Group Questions in those settings.

Category: Applying the WG questions

22/08/2019 - 22/08/2019

Girls Education Challenge (GEC) is a flagship DFID programme aiming to help up to a million of the world’s poorest girls across 18 countries to improve their lives through education.

Category: Applying the WG questions

22/08/2019 - 22/08/2019

Administrative data have been suggested as a means to analyze the prevalence of disability as well as for disaggregating outcomes, such as employment or poverty, by disability status. This blog discusses the problems with taking this approach, and the conditions necessary for using such data for these purposes.

Category: Methodology

22/08/2019 - 22/08/2019
Why The Washington Group Questions Ask About ‘Difficulties’ And Not ‘Disabilities’- How A Single Word Can Make A Difference

Asking people on surveys if they have a disability leads to underestimates of disability prevalence. As this blog explains, the preferred strategy is to ask about difficulties in functioning. This is the approach of the Washington Group questions.

Category: Methodology

22/08/2019 - 22/08/2019