Only primary studies and reviews from LAMI countries evaluating SEC of disabled children, methodological issues in childhood disability data collection, the use of ICF-CY, and the rights of children with disability were considered eligible for review.
The new development agenda offers unprecedented opportunities for a disability data revolution.
One of the themes of this year's International Day of Persons with Disabilities is disability data.
Second, national governments will have a crucial role to play in improving disability data, and must invest in statistical systems and administrative data.
Now, it's up to the UN statistical system, national governments, civil society and donors to make sure that the buzz around disability data doesn't become just another statistical anomaly.
Simple, cost-effective techniques for disability data collection now exist, including a simple set of questions that can be used in census data collection and take only 75 seconds to complete.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the UK's Department for International Development have done some great capacity-building work, including DfID's support for disability data collection in countries such as Zimbabwe and Myanmar.
In disability data collection, the facilitator or interviewer assists the subject in the rating process.
18 Social Security Administration State-level disability data between 2001 and 2013 were downloaded from http://www.data.gov.
Of 385 FTP patients with disability data, mean disability fell from 35.37% prestudy (SD =.2275) to 12.96% poststudy (SD =.1752), a 62.8% improvement.
On a worldwide basis, an effort has been made since 2001 to collect internationally comparable disability data through the UN's Washington Group on Disability Statistics.
