Ninetheenth Annual Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina September 2019

Executive Summary

• Executive Summary (Nineteenth Annual Meeting)

Detailed Meeting Program

• Detailed Meeting Program [pdf]

Pre-Meeting Session

1. Washington Group on Disability Statistics: Investing in regional capacity 
2. Washington Group on Disability Statistics: Orientation for new members

Annual Meeting

Session 1: Opening Session

• Washington Group on Disability Statistics: Overview and Objectives for the 19th Meeting

Session 2: Workgroup Updates – Psychosocial Functioning and Mental Health

• Review of the Work to Develop Measures Specific to Psychosocial Functioning and Mental Health
• Cognitive Testing of Proposed Questions in South Africa and the United States
• Profile of Psychosocial Disability: Review of Available Analyses

Session 3: Workgroup Updates – Use of Administrative Systems to Collect Information on Disability

• The Use of Administrative Data for Inclusive Policies
• Update on South Africa’s plans to Harmonize Their Administrative Data on Disability

Session 4: Workgroup Updates – Disability Module for Labor Force Surveys

• Update on the Development of the Disability Module for Labor Force Surveys

Session 5: Workgroup Updates – Child Functioning and Disability

• Update on the Development of the Module on Inclusive Education
• Overview of the Child Functioning Module – Teachers Version (CFM-TV)

Session 6: Translation of the WG Questions

• Case study: Adjudication of Multiple Spanish Translations of the WG Short Set & Discussion of Next Steps

Session 7: Country Experiences and Activities Related to Disability Statistics – Part I

• Disability Statistical Surveys and Policies in China

Session 8: Workgroup Updates – WG Data: Analysis and Dissemination

• Review of the Work on the Development of Severity Indicators using the WG questions
• Disseminating Data Collected using the WG questions: Examples and Next Steps

Session 9: WG Website Redesign

• Recent Updates to the WG Website

Session 10: WG’s Efforts to Support Regional Capacity Building

• Update on the WG’s Partnership with DFAT; the Establishment of Regional Workgroups; and a Discussion of Future Plans for Capacity Building

Session 11: Disability Measurement in the 2020 round of population censuses in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Disability Measurement in Costa Rica, towards 2021 Census
• 2020 Census in Ecuador and Disability
• 2018 National Study on the Profile of People with Disabilities & Disability Measurement: Background on the 2020 Census
• Challenges in the Disability Measurement towards 2020 Census Round

Session 12: Country Experiences and Activities Related to Disability Statistics – Part II

• Summary of Annual Activities related to Disability Statistics
• Update of the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census
• Belarus’ Experience in Measuring Disability

Session 13: Next Steps and Objectives for the 20th Meeting