SINTEF Health Research was commissioned by the DFID Disability Knowledge and
Research Program in January 2005 to carry out an inquiry on Disability and statistics
in developing countries. Methods applied have been a review of relevant international
initiatives and a workshop with DPOs and researchers from Southern Africa as
participants.
The literature review showed as expected that there is little data on disability in lowincome
countries in general. A few overview articles describe existing data as
suffering from poor quality, lack of comparability and limited applicability. An
exception is found in a series of international publications based on large prevalence
studies having applied the Ten Question screening instrument.