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International Measurement of Disability - Purpose, Method and Application (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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International Measurement of Disability - Purpose, Method and Application (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Social Indicators Research Series, 61
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This volume provides an informed review of the accomplishments of
the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) in the provision
of international data and statistics on disability. It does so
within the context of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities. The volume includes a description of the
development and testing of a short set of questions for Censuses,
now used in approximately 29 countries and recommended in the
U.N.'s Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing
Censuses: The 2020 Round, which includes disability as a core topic
to be collected in censuses. It discusses the experiences of
several countries on the use of the WG questions and how this has
impacted on national agendas in the area of disability. It follows
the development and testing of an extended set of questions for use
in national surveys other than censuses and examines the challenges
of translation and the importance of generating comparable question
sets in different languages and within different cultures. It
studies the examination of cognitive testing techniques in a
variety of countries, and presents the results of the first round
of censuses in 2010 in countries using the six question set. The
volume includes discussions of the new development of question
modules on a broad range of child disability and functioning, and
the environmental contexts of participation that are part of the
current work of the WG. In addition, it contains a reflection on
the use of the WG's functionality approach to identifying
disabilities by humanitarian agencies to identify disabilities in
populations of displaced persons. A thoughtful conclusion addresses
what the development of cross-nationally comparable data can mean
for the improvement of circumstances for all persons with
disabilities.
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