Measuring Disability: An Examination of Differences Between the Washington Group Short Set on Functioning and the American Community Survey Disability Questions

Natl Health Stat Report. 2021 Aug:(161):1-9.

Abstract

Objective-This report examines differences in survey reports of disability between two sets of disability questions, the Short Set on Functioning (WG-SS) developed by the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) and a set of disability questions developed for the American Community Survey (ACS).

MeSH terms

  • Disabled Persons*
  • Humans
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Washington / epidemiology