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Revising the United Nations census : recommendations on disability

2002

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This paper describes the issues concerned with the revision of the disability section of the United Nations' Principles and recommendations for population and housing censuses. The discussion includes how the newly published international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF) can be incorporated in the recommendations. Issues for consideration are:
- new approaches in defining disability;
- a new list of types of disabilities based on the ICF;
- improving the wording and structure of questions to identify persons with disabilities;
- improving the dialogue between users and producers; and
- the need to perform cognitive and quantitative testing of questions on disability.
The paper also gives an overview of how countries have used the census to collect data on disability and underlines the advantages and disadvantages of its use highlighting its importance in the collection of information on persons with disabilities particularly in developing countries

Language and cultural issues in surveys of the European Union : a short description and an example of fundamental problems and practical solutions

OYEN, H VAN
et al
2002

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Social statistics are a difficult task when comparing countries that are using different languages and have different social systems. The experience from the European Union shows that there are ways around this problem: but the different countries have to agree first on a conceptual framework, standard instruments and common methods of analysis. The example of the European Union describes a possible use of these tools

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