Who is Disabled in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Who is Disabled in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Despite significant recent advances in research on people with disabilities in many developed countries, little is known about their counterparts living in the developing world. With the goal of helping to improve the state of knowledge on disabili...

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Main Authors: Montes, Jose, Swindle, Rachel
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:
DISABILITY
POVERTY
ACCESSIBILITY
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
GENDER
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
LABOR MARKET
EMPLOYMENT
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/898541620207711446/Who-is-Disabled-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa
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spelling okr-10986-355362021-05-06T05:10:40Z Who is Disabled in Sub-Saharan Africa? Montes, Jose Swindle, Rachel DISABILITY POVERTY ACCESSIBILITY VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN GENDER EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT LABOR MARKET EMPLOYMENT Despite significant recent advances in research on people with disabilities in many developed countries, little is known about their counterparts living in the developing world. With the goal of helping to improve the state of knowledge on disability, the United Nations commissioned the Washington Group to develop a short set of questions to measure disability in official household surveys. This note uses the resulting data from ten recent surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to profile the characteristics of people with disabilities, briefly describing their welfare, gender, age, geographic characteristics, educational attainment, and labor force participation. 2021-05-05T19:31:07Z 2021-05-05T19:31:07Z 2021-04 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/898541620207711446/Who-is-Disabled-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35536 English Poverty and Equity Notes;No. 40 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Africa Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) Africa Western and Central (AFW) Sub-Saharan Africa
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topic DISABILITY
POVERTY
ACCESSIBILITY
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
GENDER
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
LABOR MARKET
EMPLOYMENT
spellingShingle DISABILITY
POVERTY
ACCESSIBILITY
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
GENDER
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
LABOR MARKET
EMPLOYMENT
Montes, Jose
Swindle, Rachel
Who is Disabled in Sub-Saharan Africa?
geographic_facet Africa
Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE)
Africa Western and Central (AFW)
Sub-Saharan Africa
relation Poverty and Equity Notes;No. 40
description Despite significant recent advances in research on people with disabilities in many developed countries, little is known about their counterparts living in the developing world. With the goal of helping to improve the state of knowledge on disability, the United Nations commissioned the Washington Group to develop a short set of questions to measure disability in official household surveys. This note uses the resulting data from ten recent surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to profile the characteristics of people with disabilities, briefly describing their welfare, gender, age, geographic characteristics, educational attainment, and labor force participation.
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author Montes, Jose
Swindle, Rachel
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Swindle, Rachel
author_sort Montes, Jose
title Who is Disabled in Sub-Saharan Africa?
title_short Who is Disabled in Sub-Saharan Africa?
title_full Who is Disabled in Sub-Saharan Africa?
title_fullStr Who is Disabled in Sub-Saharan Africa?
title_full_unstemmed Who is Disabled in Sub-Saharan Africa?
title_sort who is disabled in sub-saharan africa?
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
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