Regional Workshop on promoting disability data collection through the 2010 Population and Housing Censuses
Bangkok , 8-10 April 2008
Last update: 30 May 2008
Acknowledging the challenges and the strong national needs expressed at the fourth session of ESCAP Committee on Poverty Reduction (12-14 December 2007), the objectives of the workshop were (i) to further advocate the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) based approach to disability data collection through practical training on census data collection and compilation based on the United Nations Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses; (ii) to serve as an important opportunity to identify specific country needs for support in both the census and survey-based data collection.
Session 1:
Dialogue between data users and producers: understanding the mismatch
Biwako Millennium Framework and ESCAP work on disability
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Data producer – The Philippines National Statistical Office
Data user – National Forum of Organizations Working with the Disabled
Session 2:
Shifting towards the ICF-based approach for disability data collection
The ICF-based approach
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Promoting the ICF-based approach in Asia
Country experience - Thailand National Statistical Office
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Session 3:
Applying the ICF-based approach to census data collection
Panel session: Development of the Global Census Recommendations and the implementation guidelines
Country experience on the implementation of the ICF-based approach – Viet Nam National Statistical Office
Session 4: ‘Learning by doing’:
targeted training on census disability data collection methods
Questionnaire design, translation into local languages and training of interviewers
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Pilot testing
Data compilation and tabulation
Best strategies for data dissemination
Session 5:
How to convince decision makers
Overview: Why communicate and how to do it
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Preparing Messages: A Practice Session
Getting the Message across through Interviews
Session 6:
From censuses to surveys: national needs for support
ESCAP project ‘Improvement of Disability Measurement and Statistics in Support of the Biwako Millennium Framework and Regional Census Programme’
Washington Group work on survey questionnaires
Washington Group matrix
Background documents
Project Document
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UN Global Recommendations on Census (2007)
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Washington Group Disability Census Questions
Review of progress made and challenges faced in the implementation of the Biwako Millennium Framework for action towards an inclusive, Barrier free and rights-based society for persons with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific, 2003-2012
Review of the Implementation of the Biwako Millennium Framework for Action
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Biwako Plus Five: Further efforts towards an inclusive, Barrier-Free and Rights-Based Society for persons with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific
Strengthening the implementation of the Biwako Millennium Framework for Action in the Pacific Subregion
