Why Include The WG Questions On Both Surveys And The Census? Censuses and surveys have different strengths and weaknesses. Including the Washington Group questions on both can can leverage the power…
Book resource: International Measurement of Disability: Purpose, Method and Application This volume provides an informed review of the Washington Group accomplishments in the provision of…
From UNESCO: What We Know (And The Great Deal We Don’t) About Education And Disability A new paper from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), Education and Disability, presents the first…
Reports to the UN Secretary General on Activities of the WG – as documented for the UN Statistical Commission As a City Group constituted under the auspices of the UN Statistical Commission, the…
Why Global Health And Functioning Indicators Like The GALI Are Not Suitable For Disaggregation This blog explains why the single question on disability linked to participation that some countries…
Disability Data For Effective Policy Design: Reflections From The TEACH Project In Pakistan As part of the Teaching All Children Effectively (TEACH) project the University of Cambridge and IDEAS,…
Disaggregation by Disability: A way forward This article gives an overview of the progress made using the WG questions for the purposes of disaggregation. In this article, Mitchell Loeb, a Health…
The Washington Group Questions And The Disability Continuum Data based on the Washington Group questions can be used in different ways to get at the diversity among persons who report a range of…
Data To Leave No One Behind And The Washington Group This blog from Development Initiatives discusses how the Washington Group questions advance the goal of using data to leave no one behind. It…
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…
