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Second Workshop for Improving Disability Statistics and Measurement
Bangkok, 27-29 September 2004

FOR PARTICIPANTS ONLY
27 September 2004

UNITED NATIONS
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

Second Workshop for Improving Disability Statistics and Measurement
27-29 September 2004
Bangkok

Tentative Programme
Monday, 27 September 2004 (Meeting Room A)
08:00-08:45 Registration
09:00-09:15 Welcome and opening by Ms Lene Mikkelsen
Chief, Statistics Development Section
Statistics Division, UNESCAP
09:15-09:30) Health and disability framework (Mr Bedirhan Ustun, WHO)
09:30-10:30 Standard sets of disability questions (Mr Nenad Kostanjsek, WHO)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break & Group Photos
11:00-12:00 Question formulation (Ms Joanne Hillermann, ABS)
12:00-13.30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:30 Exercise on question formulation (Ms Joanne Hillermann, ABS)
14:30-15:30 Testing and interviewing techniques (Ms Joanne Hillermann, ABS)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Exercise on testing techniques (Ms Joanne Hillermann, ABS)
17:30-19:00 Reception at UNESCAP Dinning Room, UNCC, Level 1
 
Tuesday, 28 September 2004 (Meeting Room A)
08:30-09:00 Bringing existing administrative registers in line with ICF
(Mr Xingyan Wen, AIHW)
09:00-10:00 Exercise on registers (Mr Xingyan Wen, AIHW)
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Progress on National Action Plans (Mr Chol O Han, UNESCAP)
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:30 Feedback on the manual (Ms Joanne Hillermann, ABS)
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-16:00 Exercise – Selection of country examples to illustrate points
made in the manual (Facilitators)
16:00-17:00 3rd Workshop – outline and work plan
(Ms Lene Mikkelsen and Mr Chol O Han, UNESCAP)
 
Wednesday, 29 September 2004 (Meeting Room A)
  Day 1 of the 4th Meeting of the Washington Group
09:00 – 9:15 Welcome address by Ms Keiko Okaido, Deputy Executive Secretary, UNESCAP
09:15-09:45

Practical information for participants

Improving disability statistics and measurement in support of the Biwako Millennium Framework: ESCAP initiative
(Ms Lene Mikkelsen, UNESCAP)

09:45-10:00 Review of developments since the 3rd meeting; review of
objectives / agenda for the 4th meeting (Ms Jennifer Madans, USA)
10:00-10:15 Group Photo and Coffee Break
10:15-11:15 Proposed Content of Census Questions for International Use
(Ms Jennifer Madans, USA)
11:15-11:45 Discussant 1: Ms Gunilla Davidsson, Sweden
Discussant 2: Mr Xingyan Wen, Australia
11:45–12:45 Lunch Break
12:45-14:30 Plenary discussion and plan for Workgroup 1
14:30-14:50 Suggestions for Implementing the Disability Measure
(Ms Bothaina El-Deeb, Egypt)
14:50-15:00 Lessons learned from pilot testing for censuses in 6 South
American countries (Ms Alicia Bercovich, Brazil)
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-17:00 Plenary discussion and plan for Workgroup 2
17:30-20:00

Reception dinner hosted by NSO Thailand at the Yok Yor
Marina Restaurant

(Note: Bus transportation will be provided from meeting location to the restaurant)

 


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