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Cultural Challenges in Piloting Disability Surveys in Papua New Guinea

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While some of the difficulties discussed in this chapter may apply to social survey research in many developing countries, others are peculiar to the Papua New Guinea context and a brief description of that follows. The chapter focuses on selected issues faced in the research process: deciding on a definition of disability; limitations on involvement of disabled people in research production; and cultural influences on the process, with particular reference to expectations of benefit and consequent effects on the quality of data collected.

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    Patricia Thornton

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    Leslie Swartz

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Thornton, P. (2009). Cultural Challenges in Piloting Disability Surveys in Papua New Guinea. In: Maclachlan, M., Swartz, L. (eds) Disability & International Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93840-0_8

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