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Disability Statistics Country Register: Tools and Reports

Improvements in the collection, analysis and availability of disability statistics are critical to promoting sound and evidence-based decision-making in program development and policy-making. The importance of data for the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of social integration policies for persons with disabilities is reflected in article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and in the 2030 Sustainable Development Plan, which called for the classification of indicators by disability status.

The Knowledge Exchange Portal aims at documenting country practices and monitoring their development in the Arab States through the ESCWA Disability Statistics Program established in 2016-2017, which aims to develop national programs by building the capacity of Member States to produce comparable data.

Questionnaires

Bahrain
Census 2010
National Health Survey 2017/2018 (Arabic)

Egypt
LFS 2016 (Arabic)
The General Population, Housing and Establishment Census 2017 (Arabic)
Egyptian Woman Status Survey 2019 (Arabic)

Iraq
IPMM 2013 (Arabic)
Disability Survey 2016 (Arabic)
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2018

Jordan
General Census of Population and Housing 2015 (Arabic)

Lebanon
National Household and Budget Survey 2011

Libya
PAPFAM 2014 (Arabic)

Mauritania
The Fourth General Census of Population and Housing 2013 (Arabic)

Morocco
General Census of Population and Housing 2014

Oman
General Census of Population, Housing & Establishment 2010

Qatar
The General Population, Housing and Establishment Census 2010

Saudi Arabia
DHS 2016 (Arabic)
Disability Survey 2017

State of Palestine
Population, Housing and Establishment Census 2007
Expenditure and Consumption Survey 2011
Population, Housing and Establishment Census 2017

Sudan
Population and Housing Census 2008

Syrian Arab Republic
Budget Survey 2007 (Arabic)
Multipurpose Integrated Social Demographic Survey 2017 (Arabic)

Tunisia
General Census of Population and Housing 2014 (Arabic)
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2018 (French)

United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi Labor Force Survey 2014
Sharjah Census 2015 (Arabic)

Yemen
Household Budget Survey 2014