The
Disability Measurement Matrix, Barbara
Altman,
Jennifer
Madans
General
Disability Measures in Developing Countries: Relationship Purpose of
Measurement, Margaret Mbogoni
General
Disability Measures Used in Developed Countries: Question Characteristics,
Elizabeth Rasch
General
Measure on People with Disabilities in the European Statistical System (ESS),
Elena
de Palma
Analysis
of Matrices: Identifying the Measurement Gaps, Jennifer
Madans
Viewing
Measures via the Matrix: Do We Have What We Need?, Barbara Altman,
Jennifer Madans
General
Measures of Health for Use in Health Interview Surveys and Censuses: the
UK Experience, Howard Meltzer
Implementation
of MEHM-items in HIS in Denmark (MEHM=Minimum
European Health Module), Niels
Rasmussen
Day
2 Friday,
January 10, 2003
Trends
in the Prevalence of Disability and Chronic Conditions: Implications for
Survey Design and Measurement of Disability, Xingyan
Wen
The
OECD Experience in Using Survey-Based Disability Data: An Illustration of
Current Possibilities and Limitations, Gaétan
Lafortune
Questions
on Disabilities Raised in the Last Census inSt. Lucia, Ethel Jn. Baptiste
Brazil’s
Experience Using the Census, Renée Langlois on behalf of Alicia
Bercovich
Measurement
of Disability in Australia, Elisabeth Davis
Measurement
of Disability in Egypt, Bothaina Mahmoud El-Deeb
Canadian
Valuation of Health States: Protocol
for Selecting Health State Attibutes, Jean-Marie Berthelot
Results
from the Canadian 2001 Census and Post-Censal Disability Survey, Renée
Langlois, Éric
Langlet
Disability
in Canadian Questionnaires, Sally Kader
Measurement
in Existing Surveys/Participation
and Environmental factors,
Marijke de Klein de Vankrijke
General
Disability Measurement in Uganda – Focusing on Improvement in
Methodology and Concepts Used,
Pamela Nabukhonzo
Question
Matrix One
of the first products of the first meeting of the Washington Group
was the development of a matrix that cross-classifies the purpose that a
general disability measure is supposed to address (i.e., the use that the
data will be put to) with a typology of question characteristics which
address concepts such as domain, severity, etiology and duration.The cells of the conceptual version of the matrix describe the
information on each of the question characteristics that is needed to
satisfy each of the specific purposes.In addition, an empirical version of the matrix is being developed
that evaluates the characteristics of the general measures currently in
use according to the dimensions of the matrix.These two matrices, which detail what we need to measure to fulfill
purposes as well as what we have measured with existing general
indicators, are intended to help us identify the gaps that exist in
disability measurement.They will also help to direct our future work in developing
internationally comparable general measures of disability.Work on both the conceptual and empirical matrix is currently
underway by a team with members from Italy, the United Nations, and the
United States.Anyone interested in joining in this effort should contact Jennifer
Madans, National Center for Health Statistics, JMadans@cdc.gov.
Results
of Testing General Disability Measures Several countries have
undertaken research in the area of general disability measures and
presented plans or preliminary results at the first meeting. Some
developing countries expressed interest in adopting models being proposed
by other countries. The second group meeting will provide an opportunity
for countries with results from recent censuses or sample based surveys to
present their analyses and recommendations to the group. Countries who
currently have plans to test such measures would also have an opportunity
to share them with other members. Plans for further testing (for instance,
in developing countries ) could be developed as a result of this exchange
of information.