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1 UNSD draft
questionnaire on Disability Statistics
Bangkok, 24-28 May 2004
Lene Mikkelsen, Chief
of Statistics Development , UNESCAP
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2 Why this questionnaire?
- Special edition of the
1991 Demographic Yearbook contained disability
data
- This could become regular
feature as UN has the mandate to collect these
data
- Systematic collection
and dissemination by DY would raise awareness
and demand nationally
- ICF has provided the
common framework for increased comparability
of disability data
- Make disability part
of the larger set of demographic statistics
- Increase availability
to an international audience
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3 Information
to be requested from countries
- Basic statistical information
collected in most disability surveys
- Methodological information
on questions used to identify the population
with disabilities
- Information on the collection
tools used
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4 Statistical
data to be requested
Persons with disability:
- by age, sex, urban/rural
residence
- 5-29 years by school
attendance, single year and sex
- 15 years and over by
usual activity status, age and sex
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5 Metadata to
be requested
To facilitate interpretation of the data:
- Definition of disability
used in the data collection
- Questions used to identify
the population with disabilities
- Information on the sources
of the data
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6 Draft questionnaire
on disability statistics
- Distributed to all participants
for discussion and comments
- Currently being tested
in different regions
- ESCAP has sent it to
10 countries participating in this workshop
- Replies received and
discussion will be reported back to UNSD
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7 Options for
the collection
- The four tables could
be part and parcel of the extended Demographic
Yearbook questionnaire used in census years
- The four tables could
be a stand-alone questionnaire that would
periodically be sent to countries
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8 Section 1:
data sources
- Nine out of 10 collect
some disability data
- Six do so in the census
- Six have undertaken some
sample survey
- Four have administrative
sources, for two these are the only information
on disability
- Only two have all three
types of sources
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9 Section I-A:
Population censuses
- Five out of six collected
disability data in the 2000 census round
- All undertook complete
counts, face-to-face
- Reason given by all:
policy use
- All used one respondent
per household
- All published the information
- Questions used???
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10 Example of
questions used in census
- Does ….have physical
or mental disability?
- Type of disability? (blind,deaf,
mute, physically handicapped,mental disability,other)
- Cause of disability?
(congenital, accident, natural disaster, violence/war,
other)
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11 Section I-B:
Sample surveys
- Three out of the six sample
surveys were focussed on disability (one limited
to children 0-6)
- Other three were socio-economic
household surveys
- Sample size went from
5000-70 000 households or 0.01-3.5% of the
population
- Purpose was to cover
analytical and policy needs
- All were face-to-face
interviews
- Respondent head of household/self-respondent/parent
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12 Section I-C:
Administrative sources
- Three countries have registration
for disability (one in pilot stage)
- Five cover any type, one
state 8 major categories (medical certification?)
- Five of six have continuous
registration
- Purpose: Identity cards,
service needs and social rehabilitation, pension
purpose, serve as a comprehensive tool for
government, PWDs and NGOs. One stated statistics.
- No data are generally
published
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13 Section III:
Disability definition used
- Five out of ten used a
definition of disability which referred to
activity limitations (but not in the screening
question)
- Half had in the definition
some reference to permanent or long-term condition/
excluding temporary disability
- For the question on disability
most had dichotomous response categories (yes/no)
- Two had some indication
of severity categories
- Seven stated that they
used an impairment approach (3 also activity)
- One used an activity
approach
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14 Section V:
Why disability data is not collected
- The country which had
no data stated lack of resources
- Two - which had only administrative
sources - stated that other collections were
planned
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15 Table
1: Summary of replies
- Seven out of ten could
provide the disability data by sex and age,
two had only all ages
- Four stated that the data
was not available by residence
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16 Table 2: School
attendance
- Three countries stated
that the school attendance data was not available
- One had only educational
attainment
- One had only data for
those attending school and not by sex
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17 Table 3: Population
by activity status
- Half of the countries
could give information on the employment status
- Three on the not economically
active (only one by age groups)
- No one could give data
on those seeking work for the first time
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Feedback on
questionnaire
UNSD would appreciate your comments on:
- the information collected
in the questionnaire (both metadata and data)>
- Should it be a separate
questionnaire?
- What should be the frequency?
- Whether national statistical
offices can coordinate the data collection?
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