Finding Best Practice

Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG)

• Organized in 2001 following the United Nations International Seminar on Measurement of Disability
• Framework of the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF)

Developed disability measures suitable for censuses and national surveys

Including comparable data:

• On limitations in basic activity functioning
• Cross-nationally for populations
  • living in a variety of cultures
  • living with varying economic resources.