The fifth meeting of the Washington Group on
Disability Statistics (WG) was held September 21-23,
2005, in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, hosted by Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE), in
collaboration with CORDE.
Session
2: General Measure of Disability:
Proposed Revisions and
Recommendations
PROPOSED Washington Group General Measure on Disability View/download DOC26
KB Statement of Rationale
for the Washington Group General
Measure on Disability View/download DOC27
KB Internationally Comparable General
Disability Measures View/download PPT93
KB
Session
3: Implementing the Pre-test of the
General Disability
Measure Implementation
Protocol for Testing the Washington Group (WG) General Measure on
Disability View/download DOC
91
KB
Appendix 1: Question Batteries and
Question by Question
Specifications View/download DOC
72
KB
Appendix 2: Translation Protocol View/download DOC
44
KB Appendix
4: Cognitive Testing Interview Guide View/download DOC
380
KB
Appendix 5: Field Test
Approaches,
Instruments,
and Instructions
View/download DOC
78
KB
Appendix 6: Interviewer Instructions View/download DOC
92
KB
Appendix 7:Analysis
Plan for Pilot Testing Census Questions View/download DOC
64
KB
Question Specifications for the Cognitive Test Protocol View/download DOC
100
KB Purpose of Testing Census Questions on Disability View/download
PPT
25
KB Cognitive Testing: Washington Group Questions View/download
PPT
52
KB Cognitive Interview Obstacles View/download PPT74
KB Field
Test Options View/download PPT48
KB Translation Protocol View/download PPT44
KB Protocol for Interviewers View/download PPT133
KB Analysis Plan View/download PPT
40
KB pre-test Implementation
Documents View/download PPT
25
KB
Session
4: Report on Regional Workshops Proceedings and
Outcomes of Washington GroupWorkshops View/download PPT24
KB Mauritian
Experience in Participating
in the Washington Group Workshop View/download PPT55
KB Kenyan
Perspective to Participating
on Washington GroupWorkshop:
Field and Cognitive Testing
Plans View/download PPT28
KB
WHO/UNESCAP Disability Question Set Field Testing:
Overview and
Preliminary
Results View/download PPT
4.2 MB
Report of Participating
Countries on UNESCAP/WHO Field
Test View/download PPT1MB Disability Statistics:India View/download
PPT
128
KB Plan for
Future Washington GroupWorkshops and pre-tests View/download
PPT19
KB
Session
5: Conceptual Issues Related
to Disability Measurement Using the ICF
as a Framework for Washington Group Measures View/download PPT
231
KB
Session
6: Proposed Approach for Development
of Extended Measurement
Set/s Extended Questions Sets: Purpose, Characteristics and Topic Areas View/download
DOC55
KB
Washington Group on Disability Statistics:
Extended
Sets View/download PPT
107
KB Extended Questions
Sets:Purpose, Characteristics and Topic Areas View/download PPT
77
KB Extended Questions
Sets:Participation and
Enviromental Factors View/download PPT174
KB
Session
7: Discussion of Methodological
Issues Related to
Full Population
Coverage Methodological Preparations for an Irish
Post Census National
Disability Survey in 2006 View/download
DOC
97
KB Disability
Questions in Censuses and Surveys: ALiterature
Review of Methodological Issues - Proxy Response, Nonresponse
and Mode of Administration View/download
DOC
161
KB View/download PPT194
KB
Challenges in Collecting
Disability Statistics in a Large Scale Exercise View/download PPT271 KB
Methodological Preparations
for an Irish Post Censal
National Disability
Survey View/download PPT
139
KB
Methods to Detect and Control Bias in
Comparative Analyses of Disability Statistics View/download
PPT
3MB
Session
8: UNSD Report United Nations
Collection of National
Disability Statistics
from Population and Housing
Censuses and Related
National Surveys and
Administrative Registers View/download
PPT408
KB Session 9:
Strategic Issues Summary of
Country Reports and
Discussion View/download PPT
323
KB View/download
XLS
134
KB
Report on the Joint UNECE/WHO/Eurostat
Meeting on the Measurement of Health Status, Geneva, May 24-26, 2004 View/download PPT29
KB
Update on Revisions
to the UN and UNECE Documents, “Principles and
Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses”
View/download PPT21KB
Update on World Bank
Activities Related to Disability Statistics View/download PPT34
KB Washington
GroupGovernance
Issues View/download
PPT26
KB
Session
10: Next Steps and Objectives
for the 6th Meeting in Africa Next
Steps and Objectives
for the6thMeeting in Africa View/download
PPT39
KB
Workgroup
Contacts Five workgroups will address
major next steps of the WG. Chairs have been identified for each
workgroup. The chairs serve as the contact for
each group. Information on the workgroup topics and chairs is provided
below. WG members who wish to
volunteer to participate in one of these groups, please contact the
workgroup chairs.
Workgroup on
General Measure/s Chair:Barbara Altman, USA
Next steps for this group include addressing
recommendations for revisions to the general measure as well as the
rationale, including clarifying the issue of seriousness/severity of
disability. This workgroup will evaluate the effect of question order on
prevalence when the short set is placed on a larger survey. As part of
future work, this workgroup will consider developing the general measure
as a screener.
Workgroup on
Implementation Chair: Joseph Muli-Kalavi,
Kenya, International Development Project
Alternate: Hasheem Mannan,
USA
This workgroup will serve as a resource for countries conducting the WG
pre-test including any revisions needed to the implementation protocol.
Workgroup on
Extended Measure/s Chair: Marijke de Kleijn,
The Netherlands
Next steps for this workgroup is the
development of a plan (blueprint) for extended sets, addressing the
purpose, rationale, justification for the set and addressing international
comparability. The workgroup will also formulate possible options for
additional domains to be measured to address the purpose of equalization
of opportunities and recommend additional domains for inclusion on one
extended measurement set. Furthermore, this workgroup will also begin
development of an extended set on environmental questions.
Workgroup
on Methodological Issues
Chair: Howard Meltzer,
United Kingdom
This workgroup will address methodological
issues of importance to the Washington Group.
Workgroup on
Analysis Chair: Dan Mont,
World Bank
During the annual meeting in Rio, this new workgroup was formed in order
to plan and conduct analyses that will inform the WG work on the general
measure.
Contacts Beth
Rasch Associate Service Fellow National Center for Health Statistics
3311
Toledo Road, Room 6110
Hyattsville, MD 20782
Telephone: 301-458-4248
Fax:
301-458-4037
Email: Erasch@cdc.gov
Barbara
Altman
Special Assistant for Disability Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
3311 Toledo Road, Room 6111
Hyattsville, MD 20782 (USA)
(Phone) 301-458-4654
(Fax) 301-458-4038
(Email) BAltman@cdc.gov
Jennifer Madans
Associate Director for Science
National Center for Health Statistics
3311 Toledo Road, Room 7202
Hyattsville, MD 20782 (USA)
(Phone) 301-458-4500
(Fax) 301-458-4020
(Email)
JMadans@cdc.gov
Hasheem Mannan Associate Service Fellow National Center for Health Statistics
3311 Toledo Road, Room 6413
Hyattsville, MD 20782 (USA)
Telephone: 301-458-4664
Fax: 301-458-4038
Email: HMannan@cdc.gov