Count us in: towards better disability measurement and statistics in Asia and the Pacific
Bangkok, 8-10 December 2009
Last update: 17 December 2009
The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) under the United Nations Development Account project Improvement of disability measurement and statistics in support of the Biwako Millennium Framework and Regional Census Programme organized a workshop held at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) in Bangkok on 8-10 December 2009.
This regional workshop provided a forum to discuss ongoing initiatives in improving disability measurement and statistics that are part of the Secretariat’s work in support of the Biwako Millennium Framework and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Specifically, the workshop aimed to: (i) increase participants’ knowledge on the implementation of cognitive and pilot tests for questionnaire design, by disseminating the results of the cognitive and field tests of the WG/ESCAP extended question set to measure disability through surveys and (ii) further advocate WHO’s ICF-based approach for disability data collection through training on census and survey data collection.
Meeting report
General information
Directory of Participants
Annotated agenda
Presentation
Day 1
Russian
English
Introduction to the Biwako Millennium Framework for Action (BMF)
(200KB)
Development of an Internationally Comparable Disability Measures: The Washington Group on Disability Statistics
(279KB)
UN Development Account project on the Improvement of Disability Measurement and Statistics
(180KB)
Cognitive Interviewing
(821KB)
Philippines’ NSO Experience in Cognitive Testing
(157KB)
Cambodia's NIS Experience in Cognitive Testing
(183KB)
Kazakhstan’s Experience
in Cognitive Test,
Pain Domain
(English)
Day 2
Russian
English
Overview from cognitive test to pilot test
(262KB)
(225KB)
Preliminary findings from field test
(160KB)
(608KB)
Sri Lanka's Experience in the pilot test
(926KB)
Mongolia's Experience in the pilot test
(864KB)
Maldives' Experience in the pilot test
(362KB)
Day 3
Russian
English
Uganda's experience in uUsing the Washington Group (WG) Questions in surveys
(179KB)
Washington Group documents
WG Report to NSOs
(175KB)
Understanding and Interpreting Disability
(164KB)
Monitoring the UN Convention
(139KB)
WG Report to DPOs
(112KB)
Recommendations for the 2010 round of censuses
(169KB)
Background documents
Anxiety and depression symptoms
Guide to administration and question by question specifications
