Field test results on W4: Mobility Margie Schneider

1. Field test results on W4: MobilityMargie Schneider 6th Meeting of the Washington Group Kampala,Uganda 10 – 13th October 2006

2. Structure of presentation • Results • Core vs detailed Questions • Crosstabulations for core Q by individual detailed Qs (correspondence) • Analysis by age and sex (Vietnam) • Separate analysis of • cognitive data set • Gambia • Vietnam • South Africa

3. Core vs detailed Qs: Mobility

7. Crosstabulations

8. Comments • ‘Move inside home’ : more severe difficulties than on W3 Mobility. • ‘unable to do’ for moving inside home mostly ‘no’ on W3 mobility and many opn ‘some’ and ‘a lot’ • 2 different aspects of mobility – moving within a small space vs walking (outside? And for a distance?) and climbing stairs? • Similar results for ‘moving outside home’

9. Walking a long distance Better correspondence between responses on Core and detailed question

10. Gambia

11. Good correspondence between responses on W3 and • those on all four questions. • For walk long distance and use of hands/fingers there • is a trend to use adjacent response categories as • frequently.

12. Comments on Vietnam • Good (but not very good) correspondence between W3 mobility responses and detailed question responses • Unable on detailed = ‘a lot’ on W3 • ‘A lot’ on detailed = ‘some’ on W3 • Additional Qs: (excl. inside, outside, long distance) • Stoop, crouch, kneel • Set for 2 hrs • Stand for 2 hrs • Walk 400 m • Walk ten steps

13. Vietnam Mobility by age

14. Vietnam Mobility by sex