Links within this Sector

  • Guidelines for cognitive and pilot testing of disability questions for use in surveys

    This publication is intended for National Statistical Offices and other stakeholders wanting to learn from the project’s experience and wanting to apply the methodology for developing good questions in this and other fields.

    UNESCAP: January 2011
  • World Report on Disability

    The World Report on Disability provides global guidance on implementing the CRPD and gives an extensive picture of the situation of people with disabilities, their needs and unmet needs, and the barriers they face to participating fully in their societies.

    WHO: June 2011
  • Training manual on disability statistics
    This training manual provides an overview of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework for disability measurement as well as implementation guidelines on disability data collection, dissemination and analysis.
    UNESCAP: 2008
  • Conducting surveys on disability: a comprehensive toolkit
    This is a comprehensive toolkit which provides the foundation for designing and implementing household surveys based on the experiences of Handicap International in Afghanistan.
    Handicap International: 2005
  • Measuring disability prevalence
    This paper reviews what is meant by disability and puts forth a way of measuring disability suitable for internationally comparable prevalence rates.
    World Bank: 2007
  • Washington Group on disability statistics
    This is the web page of the Washington Group on Disabilities statistics which has developed and field-tested a list of questions which accurately identify people with disabilities in order to measure prevalence.
    National Centre for Health Statistics
  • Human functioning and disability: standards and methods
    The United Nations Statistics Division issues standards and methods approved by the Statistical Commission to assist national statistical authorities and other producers of statistics in the collection, compilation and dissemination of data.
    UN
  • Measuring disability on censuses and surveys
    The UN Statistical Commission charged the Washington Group on Disability Statistics with coming up with census and survey questions to produce high quality, internationally comparable measures of disability.
    World Bank

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