The 2020 population and housing Census to be done by the
Ghana Statistical Service will for the first time in history capture data on
disability
The statistical service will be using the Washington Group
of questions, a set of questions on disability designed for census use in the
survey of general population
Some Disabled Persons Organizations have lauded the move but
have called on the statistical service to streamline the questions to suit the
Ghana situation to be able to capture data on specific disabilities such as
Autism and Cerebral palsy
Mr Kwamena Dadzie-Denis, Chairman of the National Council
for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) told the Special Mothers Project Advocacy
team that the Disabled Persons Organizations will meet to come up with
suggested questions that will help capture specific data on specific
disabilities especially on children with disabilities
Some officials of the Ghana Statistical Service also advised
that the Disabled Persons Organizations in Ghana should look at questionnaires
that exist in other countries to make it easy for data analysis, saying, “There
will be no need to Capture data that cannot be properly analyzed
The Washington Group of questions was developed in response
to article 31 of the Right on Persons with Disabilities which obliges states to
collect appraisal information to enable governments develop policies to give
effect to the convention
No comments:
Post a Comment