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importance of appropriate data collection to protect, promote and fulfill all
human rights of persons with disabilities. Therefore Governments have begun
to recognize the urgency and importance of disability statistics, in all areas of
policy-making, and in every stage from development and implementation, to
monitoring and assessment of effectiveness,
The recently adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals
calls on governments around the world to promote full participation of the
persons with disabilities, Disability is referenced in various parts of the SDGs
and specifically in parts related to education, growth and employment,
inequality, accessibility of human settlements. The Agenda highlights the
importance of data collection and monitoring, moreover emphasis on
disability disaggregated data.
But to assess the equalization of opportunities between people with and
without disabilities, we tend to compare indicators between them, without
taking into account the demographic structure of the two populations, which
can give a false conclusion on the gap between disabled and non- disabled
people, With the new approach of disability and the tools proposed by
Washington Group on Disability Statistics, It stands out from the 2014
Population and Housing Census of Morocco, that almost half of the people
with disabilities are people aged 60 years and over.
Disability prevalence can vary dramatically by age so if the age structure
of the two populations is very different comparisons can be very misleading
without Age-Adjustment, things that are often overlooked while making
comparison between people with and without disabilities. In this article we
suggest the use of the Age-Adjustment in order to compare illiteracy rate,
unemployment rate, the labor force participation rate.

Figure1: Population by disability status and age groups

25%
With disability
20%
without disability
15% Total
10%
5%
0%

Source: 2014 Population and Housing Census of Morocco

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