Programme : Presentation on 23
September 2003Availability of Statistics on the Employment Situation of Persons with
Disabilities
Text version of a Powerpoint Presentation
Presented by Ferdinand Lepper on 23 September 2003, 1:00pm
Slide 1
Availability of Statistics
on the Employment Situation
of Persons with Disabilities
Presentation by Ferdinand Lepper
at the Workshop on improving disability data for policy use
23 September 2003, Bangkok, Thailand
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Goals
improving employment opportunities
for people with disabilities
assisting in planning and
policy making
determining the effect of different types of legislation
Need for statistics that cross-classify aspects of disability and employment situation
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Task for the Bureau of Statistics
Establishing guidelines to assist countries in developing or improving their statistics
on the employment situation of persons with disabilities.
Statistics should be feasible (costs), have a large coverage of variables (employment,
disabilities etc.) and report within appropriate periods.
Phase one:
Analysis of the methodologies currently used by countries to compile these statistics.
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Phase one
- Questionnaire to 219 countries and regions
- Analysis of the methodologies currently used by countries
- Compendium of national practices
- Discussion at the 17th International Conference of Labour Statisticians
(Geneva, 24 November to 3 December 2003)
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Current status
- Questionnaires were sent to 219 countries and regions in March (English), May (French)
and July (Spanish)
- More than 100 answers have been received
- Requests for clarification/additional information
- Data input into database to generate quantitative analysis and country sheets for
compendium
- Draft descriptions of methods used will be submitted to countries for verification and
approval in October
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The questionnaire
- Source
- Organisation responsible
- Type of source
- Periodicity
- Coverage
- Disabilities
- Persons
- Economic activities
- Sectors
- Employment situation
- Status in employment
- Geographic areas
- Establishments
- Terms and Definitions
- Term for disability
- Definition of disability
- Source of the definition
- Questions used in the source
- Minimum duration
- Classifications
- Reference period
- Dissemination
- Publications
- Website
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First results
- Types of sources
- mostly censuses
- ad-hoc-modules to labour force surveys
- special surveys on health/disability
- administrative records (often related to jobseekers)
- Definition of disability
- national legal regulations (incl. Classification schemes with medical advice about
disability)
- according to WHO recommendations
- national statistical definitions
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Future
- Discussion at 17th ICLS: guidance on concepts, definitions, classifications and data
sources
- Synthesis of methodologies for advice to constituents
- Technical guidance to countries
- Development of international standards for statistics on the employment situation of
persons with disabilities
- Consultations with Washington group, other international/regional fora, countries and
interest groups
- Preparation of proposals for draft guidelines
- Tripartite meetings of experts convened by ILO Governing Body to consider proposals and
advise on future development
- Consideration of proposals at 18th ICLS (2008)
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