书目名称 | International Measurement of Disability |
副标题 | Purpose, Method and |
编辑 | Barbara M. Altman |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/472/471792/471792.mp4 |
概述 | 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-nationall |
丛书名称 | Social Indicators Research Series |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | This volume provides an informed review of the accomplishments of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) in the provision of international data and statistics on disability. It does so within the context of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The volume includes a description of the development and testing of a short set of questions for Censuses, now used in approximately 29 countries and recommended in the U.N.’s Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses: The 2020 Round, which includes disability as a core topic to be collected in censuses. It discusses the experiences of several countries on the use of the WG questions and how this has impacted on national agendas in the area of disability. It follows the development and testing of an extended set of questions for use in national surveys other than censuses and examines the challenges of translation and the importance of generating comparable question sets in different languages and within different cultures. It studies the examination of cognitive testing techniques in a variety of countries, and presents the results of the first round of censuses in 2010 in countri |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | Cooperative Testing in South America; Cross-national Issues in Disability; Discussion of issues associ |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28498-9 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-80364-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-28498-9Series ISSN 1387-6570 Series E-ISSN 2215-0099 |
issn_series | 1387-6570 |
copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 |