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Creating an Overall Measure of Severity of Disability for the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys Disability Survey
Author(s) -
Martint Jean,
Elliot David
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series a (statistics in society)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.103
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-985X
pISSN - 0964-1998
DOI - 10.2307/2982672
Subject(s) - measure (data warehouse) , population , medicine , gerontology , demography , psychology , environmental health , computer science , sociology , database
SUMMARY A new measure of severity of disability was required for the survey of disabled people carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys for the Department of Health and Social Security. The method used was based on the consensus of a number of people acting as judges who were asked to assess the relative degree of limitation of various disabilities and combinations of disabilities. High levels of agreement between judges were found. A unidimensional interval scale of severity of disability was constructed from the judgments for use in estimating the prevalence of disability at different levels of severity in Great Britain.