Children and women with disabilities

				RRS
	#	Settlement	Population	Rayon	Jamoat	No. of interviews	Total quota
100,000-499,000							0
50,000-99,000							0
10,000-49,000	1	Khorog	28 600	Khorog		7	7
Under 10,000	2		9 252	Vanj	Vanj	8	46
	3		7 340	Ishkoshim	Ishkoshim	8
	4		8 637	Darvoz	Qalai Khum	8
	5		5 130	Roshtqala	M. Mirshakar	7
	6		7 280	Rushon	N. Dodikhudoev	7
	7		6 031	Shugnon	Navobod	8

DUSHANBE CITY
	#	Settlement	Population	Rayon	Jamoat	No. of interviews	Total quota
500K+	1	Dushanbe city 1	764300			8	194
	2	Dushanbe city 2	764300			8
	3	Dushanbe city 3	764300			8
	4	Dushanbe city 4	764300			8
	5	Dushanbe city 5	764300			8
	6	Dushanbe city 6	764300			8
	7	Dushanbe city 7	764300			8
	8	Dushanbe city 8	764300			8
	9	Dushanbe city 9	764300			8
	10	Dushanbe city 10	764300			8
	11	Dushanbe city 11	764300			8
	12	Dushanbe city 12	764300			8
	13	Dushanbe city 13	764300			7
	14	Dushanbe city 14	764300			7
	15	Dushanbe city 15	764300			7
	16	Dushanbe city 16	764300			7
	17	Dushanbe city 17	764300			7
	18	Dushanbe city 18	764300			7
	19	Dushanbe city 19	764300			7
	20	Dushanbe city 20	764300			7
	21	Dushanbe city 21	764300			7
	22	Dushanbe city 22	764300			7
	23	Dushanbe city 23	764300			7
	24	Dushanbe city 24	764300			7
	25	Dushanbe city 25	764300			7
	26	Dushanbe city 26	764300			7

Appendix B
Table 1. Examples of direct methods to measure attitudes towards persons with disabilities

A. Ranking

Please rank the following impairments in order according to the extent to which you think they are disabling to persons with the impairment.

Use 1 for the most disabling, 2 for the next most disabling, 3 for the next most disabling, and 4 for the least disabling.

_________ cancer _________blindness _________epilepsy _________diabetes

B. Adjective checklist

Below is a list of adjectives. Read these adjectives quickly and put a - next to each one you consider to be descriptive of persons with spina bifda. Work quickly and do not spend too much time thinking about any one adjective.

____ active ____cautious ____distrustful ____excitable ____gentle

____impulsive ____lazy ____meek ____nervous ____pleasant

____quick ____reliable ____talkative ____unkind ____weak

C. Paired comparisons

Each item below presents two possible impairments. Please read each pair and circle the impairment that you believe is the more disabling to persons with the impairment. Judge each pair separately.

1. (a) polio 2. (a) epilepsy 3. (a) polio

(b) epilepsy (b) blindness (b) blindness

D. Summated rating scale

The statements below express opinions or ideas about persons with mental retardation. Read each statement carefully and circle the one response that best corresponds with how you feel about the statement. You should work as rapidly as you can.

Key

SD: I Strongly Disagree D: I Disagree A: I Agree SA: I Strongly Agree

1. The child who is

mentally retarded should be integrated SD D A SA

into regular classes in school.

2. I would allow my

child to attend a birthday party given SD D A SA

for a child with mental retardation.

3. A Sunday school

teacher has the right to decide whether SD D A SA

to let a child with mental retardation enter his or her class.

4. Persons with

mental retardation sometimes imagine they SD D A SA

have been discriminated against even when they have

been treated fairly.
E. Social distance scale

For each of the impairments listed below, select the one level of social contact that expresses your feelings of personal-group distance and mark the appropriate space. Please provide your first reaction in every case. React to each impairment as a group. Do not give your reaction to the

best or worst members of the group that you have known or can imagine.

Would marry into group	Would have as close friends	Would have as next door neighbour	Would work on same office	Would have speaking acquaintance only	Would have as visitor only to my nation	Would debar from my nation
Blindness
Amputation
Hemophilia

1^ The Agency on Statistics under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan (2013), The Population of Tajikistan as of January 1, 2013