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... Consistent with this charge is the need for the committee to ascertain that the methods proposed for measuring disability in the DES, particularly the approach to one of the DES objectives described below, are indeed adequate and correct. SSA's stated plans regarding ongoing monitoring of the size of the pool of people who might be potentially eligible for benefits under the SSDI and SSI programs are to use existing survey vehicles sponsored by other agencies to supplement a periodic DES.
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... As a step toward exploring these issues, the Committee to Review the Social Security Administration's Disability Decision Process Research (hereafter referred to as "the committee") convened on May 27-28, 1999, a workshop titled "Survey Measurement of Work Disability: Challenges for Survey Design and Method." The committee believed that a focused discussion among a wide range of disability researchers and survey methodologists could identify unanswered questions about measurement and provide a framework for a long-term research agenda in this area for SSA and others in this field.
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... The workshop opened with a session in which the authors of the two background papers presented a "point-counterpoint" dialog.2 The remaining sessions for the day focused on measurement and methodological issues within the framework of specific conceptual and programmatic themes. Participants then identified and discussed issues pertaining to: · translation of various conceptual models of disability and the disablement process to valid and reliable questions in a survey and their ability to address SSA's disability programmatic requirements; · measurement error properties of existing measures of work disability and the survey conditions that affect these measures; · the ability to crosswalk among measures of disability collected in a variety of settings, such as the DES, and other ongoing federal data collection efforts; and · gaps in the current set of disability measures and the inherent problems in attempting to fill those gaps.
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  • facilitate crosswalks
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