Publication: Disability Measurement in Household Surveys: A Guidebook for Designing Household Survey Questionnaires
Date
2020-01
ISSN
Published
2020-01
Author(s)
Tiberti, Marco
Costa, Valentina
Abstract
An estimated one billion people
worldwide live with disabilities. Of the world’s poorest
people, one in five live with disabilities, in conditions
where they lack material resources as well as opportunities
to exercise power, reach their full potential, and flourish
in various aspects of life. These numbers are rising
particularly quickly in high-income countries, where
national populations are growing older at unprecedented
rates, leading to a higher incidence of diabetes,
cardiovascular diseases, and mental disorders. To ensure
disability-inclusive development, disability data must
capture the degree to which society is inclusive in all
aspects of work, school, family, transportation, and civic
participation, inter alia. Disaggregating disability
indicators will allow us to understand the quality of life
of people with disabilities, towards developing programs and
policies to address existing disparities. To facilitate the
World Bank’s commitment to disability-inclusive development,
this guidebook supports the implementation of the Washington
Group Short Set (WG-SS) in multi-topic household surveys,
towards improving the collection of disaggregated disability
data. The first section presents an overview of definitions
of disability from the sociopsychological literature in
order to explore how disability is defined and who is
considered disabled. The second section looks at three
different methods for disability measurement in multi-topic
household survey. The final section presents the functioning
disability module that comprises the six core WG-SS
functional domains (seeing, hearing, walking, cognition,
selfcare, and communication), to be administered to
household members above five years of age.
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Citation
“Tiberti, Marco; Costa, Valentina. 2020. Disability Measurement in Household Surveys: A Guidebook for Designing Household Survey Questionnaires. LSMS Guidebook;. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33220 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”