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FOR PARTICIPANTS ONLY
22 May 2004

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

First Workshop for Improving Disability Statistics and measurement
24-28 May 2004
Bangkok

• Welcome by UNESCAP Deputy Executive Secretary
• Project and workshop objectives (Lene Mikkelsen, UNESCAP)
• BMF (Jerry Huguet, UNESCAP)

• Overview of United Nations’s work on disability standards and the data situation in the Asia-Pacific Region (Lene Mikkelsen, UNESCAP)
• Engendering disability statistics (Chol O. Han, UNESCAP)

United Nations disability initiatives and work (cont.)

• UNSD draft questionnaire on disability statistics – Evaluation and discussion (Lene Mikkelsen, UNESCAP)

• Structure and details of ICF of relevance to statistics (Nenad Kostanjsek, WHO)
• Operationalisation of the ICF concept and definition of disability (Ken Black, ABS)

Data collection methods and instruments

• Census and surveys, instrument development and testing (Ken Black, ABS)
• Administrative data standards, data dictionaries and the ICF (Nicola Fortune, AIHW)

Group exercise on which ICF domains should be included in surveys.

Social event: Dinner in restaurant for all participants

Designing a disability survey or census measure

• Conclusions from Wednesday’s group exercise
• Selected case studies (Ken Black, ABS)
• Collecting data on disability services (Nicola Fortune, AIHW)

• Thailand’s strategy (Pakamas Rattanalangkarn, Thai NSO)
• General components of a plan (ABS, WHO, ESCAP)

Strategies for improving disability statistics (cont.)

• Presentation of national plans
• General discussion of these

• Suggestions and agreement on work to be carried out by countries and international organisations
• Closing of meeting