Transcript ESCAP work to improve disability measurement and statistics Work Session of the Budapest Initiative on Measuring Health Status, 20-22 January 2010, Geneva Andrés Montes Economic.

ESCAP work to improve disability
measurement and statistics
Work Session of the Budapest Initiative on Measuring
Health Status, 20-22 January 2010, Geneva
Andrés Montes
Economic and Social Commission for Asia
and the Pacific - Statistics Division
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Disability prevalence in Asia-Pacific
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6.4 6.3
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Source: Disability at a Glance 2009, SDD - ESCAP
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3.0 3.0 2.8
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2.1 2.0 1.7
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Context
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First Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled
Persons (1993-2002) => Biwako Millennium
Framework;
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Establishment of the Washington Group on
Disability Statistics (2001);
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Second Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled
Persons (2003-2012);
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Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities.
Previous work on disability statistics
ESCAP/WHO Project on Improving Disability
Statistics and Measurement 2004-06
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Objective: Improve national technical capacity to
collect & disseminate ICF-based disability data
through censuses in support of BMF.
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Target group: national statisticians and health
experts.
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Partners: WHO, Washington Group, Australian
Bureau of Statistics, UNSD, SIAP, project
countries.
Current work on disability statistics
ESCAP Project on Improvement of Disability
Measurement and Statistics through surveys
2007-2009.
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Objective: Target countries integrate ICF-based
data collection on disability into their regular
national statistical systems.
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Target group: national statisticians, health experts
and DPOs.
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Partners: WHO, Washington Group, UNSD,
UNECE, SIAP, project countries.
Main events
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First draft of the WG/ESCAP/BI Extended
Question Set (EQS) and selection of project
countries in Asia-Pacific region (July 2008);
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8th WG meeting (second draft of EQS) and first
joint meeting of the project Task-team (October
2008);
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Training on cognitive and pilot test on disability
(February 2009);
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Cognitive test (March/April 2008);
Main events
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Analysis of cognitive test results => revised EQS
(May 2009);
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In-country trainings and implementation of pilot
test (July-September 2009);
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9th WG meeting – review of cognitive test and
preliminary field test results (October 2009);
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Final regional workshop presenting results and
recommendations (December 2009).
Thank you
www.unescap.org/stat/disability