Seventh Meeting
Washington Group on Disability Statistics
Dublin, Ireland: September 19- 21, 2007 Objectives|Contacts
The seventh meeting of the Washington Group on
Disability Statistics will be held September 19-21 in Dublin, Ireland. Major
agenda topics for the seventh meeting emanated
from work presented at the sixth meeting. Three work groups will address
these major topics. Chairs have been identified for each workgroup. The
chairs will also serve as the contact for each group. Information on the
workgroup topics and chairs is provided below. In addition to the workgroup
sessions, there will be updates from the United Nations Statistical
Division, UN affiliates, and the World Bank about their activities related
to disability statistics, and the Steering Committee chair will lead a
discussion on strategic issues including planning the next steps.
Workgroup 1
Chair – Barbara Altman, USA
This workgroup will consider minor revisions to the question set within the
next few months. In addition, the group will develop an alternative
(optional) question on upper body function. The workgroup was also charged
with addressing the use of the short set as a screener.
Workgroup 2 Chair - Dan Mont, USA
Although detailed analyses of the pre-test data were
presented at the 6th meeting, the WG agreed that there is much more
analytical work that can be done that would be informative. The workgroup on
data analysis was charged with completing this work. Both of these
workgroups (on the short set and data analysis) will jointly plan and
oversee publication of the pre-test results.
It
was decided that the methodological workgroup would be merged with the data
analysis workgroup to address three specific issues: 1) portability of
questions across administration modes; 2) how the questions work for
specific subpopulations such as those with severe disability, children, or
the institutionalized population; and 3) the use of proxy informants. It was
agreed that proxy reporting is a priority for the group.
Workgroup 3
Chairs -Margie Schneider,
South Africa and Howard Meltzer,
United Kingdom
The workgroup was charged with drafting a position paper specific to
developing an extended question set for the purpose of assessing
equalization of opportunities. The position paper will include the plan,
purpose, and approach for developing the extended set. It was agreed that
the primary issue for this extended set is expansion of the existing domains
covered in the short set and adding to the existing domains. The WG will
collaborate with UNESCAP on development of the extended set/s.