abstract: 'Disability has received limited attention on the global data and social

  policy scene. There are few global data portals or indices tracking the

  socioeconomic situation of persons with disabilities. Global social

  policy initiatives tend to focus on disability benefits, while other

  social policies may impact the situation of persons with disabilities.

  The absence of internationally comparable data and tools to measure

  disability could explain this lack of attention until recently. Given

  progress with respect to measuring disability, this article set out to

  find out if human development indicators can be disaggregated by

  disability status using census and mainstream survey data and, if they

  can, consider what such disaggregation reveals regarding the

  socioeconomic situation of persons with disabilities and derive

  implications for social policies. Disability status is measured through

  self-reports of functional difficulties (e.g. seeing, hearing). For 19

  low- and middle-income countries, the median prevalence stands at 13\%

  among adults aged 15 years and older, and at 28\% among households. We

  could disaggregate a range of human development indicators across

  disability status for all countries. There are consistent inequalities

  associated with disability, particularly in terms of educational

  attainment, employment population ratio, multidimensional poverty, and

  food security. At the same time, we find that not all persons with

  functional difficulties experience deprivations. Results in this article

  on the prevalence of functional difficulties and their association with

  socioeconomic deprivations show that disability should be central to

  social policies globally. More data collection, research, and policy

  work are needed to curb the inequalities associated with disability.'
affiliation: 'Mitra, S (Corresponding Author), Fordham Univ, 441 East Fordham Rd,
  Bronx, NY 10458 USA.

  Mitra, Sophie; Yap, Jaclyn; Herve, Justine; Chen, Wei, Fordham Univ, 441 East Fordham
  Rd, Bronx, NY 10458 USA.

  Herve, Justine, Stevens Inst Technol, 1 Castle Point Terrace, Hoboken, NJ 07030
  USA.'
author: Mitra, Sophie and Yap, Jaclyn and Herve, Justine and Chen, Wei
author-email: mitra@fordham.edu
author_list:
- family: Mitra
  given: Sophie
- family: Yap
  given: Jaclyn
- family: Herve
  given: Justine
- family: Chen
  given: Wei
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1177/14680181221077866
earlyaccessdate: MAY 2022
eissn: 1741-2803
files: []
issn: 1468-0181
journal: GLOBAL SOCIAL POLICY
keywords: 'Disability; disaggregation; functional difficulties; human development;

  statistics'
keywords-plus: WASHINGTON GROUP; POVERTY; POOREST
language: English
month: APR
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '46'
orcid-numbers: Mitra, Sophie/0000-0001-7283-6630
pages: 39-66
papis_id: 9f5f013b14a121af848fe6d9ea484a9a
ref: Mitra2023inclusivestatistics
times-cited: '0'
title: 'Inclusive statistics: A disaggregation of indicators by disability status
  and its implications for policy'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000797690700001
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usage-count-since-2013: '3'
volume: '23'
web-of-science-categories: Political Science
year: '2023'