Sixth meeting: Kampala, 10-13 October 2006 The sixth meeting of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics was held October 10-13, 2006 in Kampala, Uganda, hosted by the Uganda Bureau of…
Sixteenth meeting: December 6-9, 2016 in Pretoria, South Africa WG-16 was hosted by Statistics South Africa and attended by 65 persons. The formal WG meeting was preceded by two pre-meeting sessions,…
Should you use the WG questions in your humanitarian programming? A tool to help you decide. This blog presents five criteria developed to help humanitarian workers make the best decisions regarding…
Should The Washington Group Questions Determine If Difficulties Are Long-term Or Short-term? This blog explains the reasoning behind the lack of any explicit mention of whether an activity limitation…
Short Set on Functioning – Enhanced (WG-SS Enhanced) The Washington Group Short Set on Functioning – Enhanced (WG-SS Enhanced) was developed, tested and adopted by the Washington Group on Disability…
Seventh meeting: Dublin, 19-21 September 2007 The work group on the short set addressed the use of the short set as a screener and presented an alternative (optional) question on upper body function.…
Seventeenth meeting: October 30 – November 2, 2017 in Sydney, Australia. WG-17 was co-hosted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The…
