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Making data and statistics more inclusive in developing countries
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Measuring disability through household surveys and population censuses is challenging and there is not a gold standard approach. In censuses or surveys, disability is often captured through questions on functional difficulties (e.g. seeing, hearing), activities of daily living (e.g. bending, bathing), broad activity limitation (e.g. inability to work due to a health condition) or a general question (“do you have a disability?”).
In 2017, the United Nations Statistical Commission adopted revised guidelines for the collection of disability data in national censuses (United Nations 2017). The Commission recommends that the following four functional domains be considered essential in determining disability status in a way that can be reasonably measured using a census and that would be appropriate for international compa ....

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