report on uganda pilot study by ms. pamela kakande senior statistician uganda bureau of statistics...

REPORT ON UGANDA PILOT STUDY

byMs. Pamela Kakande

Senior StatisticianUganda 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 +

Questions1. 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 difficulty2 Yes – some difficulty3 Yes – a lot of difficulty4 Cannot do at all5 Don’t know

RESULTS

SEEING

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

'5-9 '10-14 '15-19 '20-29 '30-39 '40-49 '50-59 60+

Total

some difficulty

a lot of difficulty

can't do at all

HEARING

0

10

20

30

40

'5-9 '10-14 '15-19 '20-29 '30-39 '40-49 '50-59 60+

Total

some difficulty

a lot of difficulty

can't do at all

WALKING OR CLIMBING STAIRS

0

10

20

30

40

'5-9 '10-14 '15-19 '20-29 '30-39 '40-49 '50-59 60+

Total

some difficulty

a lot of difficulty

can't do at all

REMEMBERING / CONCENTRATING

0

10

20

30

40

'5-9 '10-14 '15-19 '20-29 '30-39 '40-49 '50-59 60+

Total

some difficulty

a lot of difficulty

can't do at all

SELF CARE

0

5

10

15

'5-9 '10-14 '15-19 '20-29 '30-39 '40-49 '50-59 60+

Total

some difficulty

a lot of difficulty

can't do at all

COMMUNICATION

0

5

10

'5-9 '10-14 '15-19 '20-29 '30-39 '40-49 '50-59 60+

Total

some difficulty

a lot of difficulty

can't do at all

AT LEAST 1 FUNCTIONAL AREA

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

'5-9 '10-14 '15-19 '20-29 '30-39 '40-49 '50-59 60+

Total

some difficulty

a lot of difficulty

can't do at all

AT LEAST 1 FUNCTIONAL AREA

0.53.7

15.6

19.8

can't do at all a lot ofdifficulty

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