Transcript REPORT ON UGANDA PILOT STUDY by Ms. Pamela Kakande

REPORT ON UGANDA PILOT
STUDY
by
Ms. Pamela Kakande
Senior Statistician
Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS)
Questionnaire development
• Decision to pretest WG questions was made as a
follow up of the WG Regional meeting Nairobi –
June 2005
• The WG Questions were pretested as part of
the 2006 Uganda Demographic and Health
Survey (UDHS)
• Included all the 6 WCG questions as was in
cognitive test.
• Questionnaire was finalized before the 6th WG
meeting – March 2006
• Data collection – May to Oct 2006
SURVEY DESIGN
• National sample of 8,870 households were selected
from 368 EAs (clusters) as follows
321 EAs were from 2005/6 UNHS
30 EAs were Internally Displaced Peoples Camps
(IDP’s)
17 EAs were additional for Karamoja Region
• overd the entire country
• Questions on disability were administered to all
household members aged 5 years +
Questions
1. Do you have difficulty seeing, even if wearing glasses?
2. Do you have difficulty hearing, even if using a hearing
aid?
3. Do you have difficulty walking or climbing steps?
4. Do you have difficulty remembering or concentrating?
5. Do you have difficulty (with self-care such as) washing all
over or dressing?
6. Because of a physical, mental or emotional health
condition, do you have difficulty communicating, (for
example understanding others or others understanding
you)?
Response Categories
1 No – no difficulty
2 Yes – some difficulty
3 Yes – a lot of difficulty
4 Cannot do at all
5 Don’t know
RESULTS
SEEING
70
Total
60
some difficulty
a lot of difficulty
50
can't do at all
40
30
20
10
0
'5-9
'10-14
'15-19
'20-29
'30-39
'40-49
'50-59
60+
HEARING
40
Total
some difficulty
30
a lot of difficulty
can't do at all
20
10
0
'5-9
'10-14
'15-19
'20-29
'30-39
'40-49
'50-59
60+
WALKING OR CLIMBING STAIRS
40
Total
some difficulty
30
a lot of difficulty
can't do at all
20
10
0
'5-9
'10-14
'15-19
'20-29
'30-39
'40-49
'50-59
60+
REMEMBERING / CONCENTRATING
40
Total
some difficulty
30
a lot of difficulty
can't do at all
20
10
0
'5-9
'10-14
'15-19
'20-29
'30-39
'40-49
'50-59
60+
SELF CARE
Total
15
some difficulty
a lot of difficulty
can't do at all
10
5
0
'5-9
'10-14
'15-19
'20-29
'30-39
'40-49
'50-59
60+
COMMUNICATION
10
Total
some difficulty
a lot of difficulty
can't do at all
5
0
'5-9
'10-14
'15-19
'20-29
'30-39
'40-49
'50-59
60+
AT LEAST 1 FUNCTIONAL AREA
80
Total
70
some difficulty
a lot of difficulty
60
can't do at all
50
40
30
20
10
0
'5-9
'10-14
'15-19
'20-29
'30-39
'40-49
'50-59
60+
AT LEAST 1 FUNCTIONAL AREA
19.8
15.6
3.7
0.5
can't do at all
a lot of
difficulty
some difficulty
Total
Challenge – classifying PWD’s
• What levels of severity to be considered in the
computation of disability prevalence is still a
challenge
THANK YOU