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Impact of Living or Working Environments on Persons with Disabilities

Wei Liu, United Nations Economic And Social Commission For Asia And The Pacific (2007)

Organisation

: UN - United Nations

Document Type

: Other Documents (Article, toolkit, …)

Publisher

: UN / ESCAP

Pages

: 43

ISBN

: 9.78921e+012

Language

: EN

Abstract / Table of Contents

:

1 Introduction

2 Environment in the ICF Model

3 Methodology: Ordered Logit Model

4 Data

5 Evidence

5.1 Regression Model

5.2 Results

5.3 Marginal Effects

5.4 Policy Implications

5.4.1 Mitigating Physical Barriers

5.4.2 Better Education, Better Attitude

6 Concluding Remarks

7 References

A. Appendix: Inventory of Environmental Factors – On the way to design a

questionnaire for surveys

List of Figures

Figure 1 Kernel Density Distribution of Age

List of Tables

Table 1 Environmental Factors and Disability

Table 2 Environmental Factors and Women with Disability

Table 3 Marginal Effects on School/Work Limitations

Table 4 Marginal Effects on Participation Restrictions

Format

: File PDF

Subject

: Accessibility

Last Update

9 Feb 2010