Overview
- Provides detailed information on functioning measures of disability to the statistical and research communities
- Proposes a model that could result in more comparable data on disability cross-nationally
- Provides extensive information about ongoing collaborative work with other groups and training sessions that are being provided around the world
- Develops both theoretical approaches (to environmental measures) as well as practical applications (using functioning approach to ascertain disability in current refugee crisis)
Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 61)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Origin of the Washington Group and Issues in Disability Data Collection
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Census/Survey Questions: Purpose, Process and Testing
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Moving Forward: Extended Question Sets and Methodological Advances
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Conclusions: Outcomes and Place of the Washington Group Measures in International Data
Keywords
- Cooperative Testing in South America
- Cross-national Issues in Disability
- Discussion of issues associated with measurement among children
- International Measurement of Disability
- Measurement of Disability
- Purpose and Use of Standardized Cross-national Question Sets
- The Special Case of Children
- The State of Disability Data
- The Washington Group on Disability Statistics
- UN Convention for Persons with Disability
- United Nations Statistics Division
- a better world for persons with disabilities
- a new process of cognitive and field testing
- aging populations in assisted living and nursing homes
- childhood disability
- contrast between developed and developing countries
- involvement of organizations of persons with disabilities
- process of working across countries in the UNESCAP project
- the challenges of measuring childhood disability accurately
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Measurement of Disability
Book Subtitle: Purpose, Method and Application
Editors: Barbara M. Altman
Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28498-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28496-5Published: 21 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80364-7Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28498-9Published: 14 June 2016
Series ISSN: 1387-6570
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 335
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Quality of Life Research, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law