Disability Data Initiative Newsletter January 2025

Dear friends,

Best wishes for 2025!

The Disability Data Initiative (DDI) is thrilled to share our two new global interactive databases. They will be launched in a webinar on January 23rd, 8 to 9 EST, 14:00 to 15:00 CET, 18:30 to 19:30 IST. We invite you to explore our new databases and to join us for the global launch event. More information on the launch event and related publications is below. The databases are accessible in tables and maps in interactive platforms at the DDI databases webpage. They are also available for downloads.

About the Databases

Disability Statistics – Estimates Database (DS-E Database)

This includes disability statistics on prevalence and disaggregated indicators on education, personal activities, health, standard of living, economic insecurity, and poverty for 40 countries and 6,584 subnational locations.

Disability Statistics – Questionnaire Review Database (DS-QR Database)

This tracks the availability of internationally comparable questions on disability in population censuses and national surveys worldwide.

contactddi@disabilitydatainitiative.org

Best regards,

The DDI team

Upcoming Event

Webinar on Monitoring the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Launch of the Disability Data Initiative (DDI)’s Databases

How to Attend?

The event will be an online Zoom meeting.Register at our DDI Zoom Registration page.

The event will have live captioning in English, International Sign, French, and Spanish interpretation. For questions, email contactddi@disabilitydatainitiative.org.

Panel

José Viera, International Disability Alliance

Sophie Mitra, Disability Data Initiative, Fordham University

Bradley Carpenter, South Africa Medical Research Council

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, Sightsavers

Yongyi Min, United Nations

Journal Articles

The Disability Statistics Questionnaire Review Database (DS-QR Database): A database of population censuses and household surveys with internationally comparable disability questions.
Carpenter, B., Kamalakannan, S., Saikam, P., Alvarez, D. V., Hanass-Hancock, J., Murthy, G., Pinilla-Roncancio, M., Rivas Velarde, M., Teodoro, D. and Mitra, S. (2024) International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(6).

The Disability Statistics Estimates Database (DS-E Database): An innovative database of internationally comparable statistics on disability inequalities.
Carpenter, B., Kamalakannan, S., Patchaiappan, K., Theiss, K., Yap, J., Hanass-Hancock, J., Murthy, G., Pinilla-Roncancio, M., Rivas Velarde, M. and Mitra, S. (2024). International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(6).

Did high frequency phone surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic include disability questions? An assessment of COVID-19 surveys from March 2020 to December 2022.
Nascimento Dial, A., Mitra, S., Vicente, D., Teodoro, D. and M. Rivas Velarde (2024). BMJ Open.; 14:e079760.

Links across disabilities: unveiling associations between functional domains.
Dalal, J., Mitra, S., James, A., Rivas Velarde, M. (2024). BMC Public Health 24, 41 (2024).

What cut-off(s) to use with the Washington Group short set of questions?
Hanass-Hancock, J., Kamalakannan, S., Murthy, G.V.S., Palmer, M., Pinilla-Roncancio, M., Rivas, M., Shailaja Tetali, S. and Mitra, S. (2023) Disability and Health Journal, 101499.

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