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Nov 26, 2015

PSA: We’ll do disability survey in 2016

By JAKE SORIANO VERA Files THE Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said it will conduct a disability survey next year, after receiving flak for not including questions on disability in its 2015 census of population (POPCEN 2015). “The PSA will conduct a Disability Prevalence Survey in 2016,” the agency said in a letter to VERA Files,

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Nov 23, 2015

Census leaves out PWDs, angers disability council

By JAKE C. SORIANO DESCRIBED as a “complete enumeration” of the entire Philippine population, the 2015 Census ignored crucial data on a significant sector: persons with disabilities (PWD). The exclusion of questions on disability in the August census does not only leave out a group already lamenting their invisibility in society, but it could also

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Census leaves out PWDs, angers disability council