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Researchers at the International Centre for Evidence in Disability used the Washington Group tools to estimate the prevalence of disability and its relation to outcomes like education and employment in Cameroon, Guatemala, India, and Nepal. They find significant evidence that people with disabilities are more likely to be excluded.

Category: Applying the WG questions

22/08/2019 - 22/08/2019
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 interpreting the questions as they are intended.

Category: Methodology

22/08/2019 - 22/08/2019
A person from Sightsavers being interviewed i India

A follow-up to Sightsaver’s previous blog entry in this series, this entry explains the key findings from using the Washington Group questions in a programmatic setting: words matter, education on the WG Short Set is essential, practice makes perfect, inclusive data collection generates demand, and intersectionality is critical.

Category: Applying the WG questions

22/08/2019 - 22/08/2019
Does The WG-SS Identify All People With Disabilities, And Does It Matter?

The WG-SS identifies most people with disabilities. While 6 questions cannot identify everyone, the population identified by the WG-ss is well-understood, appropriate, and valuable for many purposes – including monitoring the CRPD and SDG disaggregation by disability.

22/08/2019 - 22/08/2019
Everybody Counts: Putting The Washington Group Questions Into Action

Sightsavers recounts their efforts to use the WG-SS in a programmatic setting in several developing countries. They found it made an enormous difference in their ability to identify people with disabilities.

Categories: Disability statistics, SDGs and Disability

22/08/2019 - 22/08/2019

The WG-SS goes beyond identifying those who would be eligible for specific disability programs. This blog explores the difference between identifying people with disabilities for statistical purposes and disability eligibility determination for social protection programs.

Category: Methodology

22/08/2019 - 22/08/2019
UN Sustainability Goals logo

The WG-SS questions are designed in a manner – both conceptually and practically – that makes them an excellent tool for disaggregating SDG indicators by disability.

22/08/2019 - 22/08/2019
Australian Volunteer Caroline Conlon at SENESE teaching and empowering deaf students and adults

Responses to surveys are very sensitive to how questions are worded. This blog summarizes the methodology recommended by the WG for translating the WG question sets in a manner that preserves the reliability of the data collected.

Category: Implementation

22/08/2019 - 22/08/2019

The social model of disability is a complex model that incorporates the interaction between people’s functional limitations and barriers in the environment. This blog entry explains how the social model informed the development of the WG questions and explains how the questions flow from it, and how they can be used in analysis consistent with the social model.

Category: Methodology

14/08/2019 - 14/08/2019