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4.0 Executive Summary of Survey Results
The Executive Summary of Survey Results is categorised into ten sections and is based on the detailed data results found later in
the report:
1. National Associations of the Deaf
2. Population of Deaf People
3. Legislation and Policies
4. Access to Government Services
5. Access to the Media
6. Status of the Country Sign Language(s)
7. Access to Education
8. Status of Sign Language Interpreting Services
9. Employment
10. General Comments
The target members of WFD RSA/P who returned completed surveys were:
1. Deaf Australia
2. Indonesian Association for the Welfare of the Deaf
3. Japanese Federation of the Deaf
4. Korean Association of the Deaf
5. Malaysian Federation of the Deaf
6. Nepal National Federation of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
7. Deaf Association of New Zealand
8. Philippine Federation of the Deaf
9. Sri Lanka Federation of the Deaf
10. National Association of the Deaf in Thailand
And non-members who returned surveys were:
1. Deaf Education Unit, Bhutan
2. Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme, Cambodia
3. Deaf-Mute Unit of the Lao Disabled People’s Association,
4. Yangon Deaf Association and Mandalay Deaf Association, Myanmar
Please note, two countries (Bhutan and Myanmar) did not answer every survey question while Cambodia and Laos completed
most of the questions. Therefore throughout the Executive Summary, survey results are summarised as being from either 12 or
14 countries.
The majority of the surveys were not received by the first deadline of 9 November 2007. It took approximately five reminders
and four deadline postponements to receive most surveys. The final reminder was sent out on 26 March 2008 with an absolute
final deadline of 31 March 2008. Mr Ichiro Miyamoto, Regional Director, WFD RSA/P, assisted in sending an email to each country
with reminders. The members of the Regional Working Group also assisted the Project Co-ordinator by contacting their sister
country organisations in the region.
It is suspected that the Deaf Association in Hong Kong has perhaps closed down; and that the survey also did not reach the Deaf
Associations in China and Mongolia. The survey package sent to the Iranian National Centre for the Deaf was returned to the
Regional Co-ordinator.
The Working Group indicated a potential difficulty for the countries which did not return surveys may be the fact that the
survey was only available in English. It was acknowledged that there are a large number of written languages in Asia and the
Pacific, and that it was not possible to make the survey available in every language of the region. The project also did not reach
every Deaf organisation or Deaf Group in the region due to lack of contact details because many countries in the region are not
members of WFD.
4.1 Background of the Country Respondents
4.1.1 Classification of Developing Countries/Developed Countries
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Based on the World Bank’s definition, four classifications were used for this analysis. Four of the 14 country respondents in Asia
and the Pacific are classified as Low Income (Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Nepal); five are classified under Low Middle Income
(Bhutan, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand); one as Upper Middle Income (Malaysia); and four are under the
category of High Income (Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Korea).
The Project was under the auspices of the Swedish National Association of the Deaf (SDR) and the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), Page No 12
and funded by the Swedish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Sida) and Swedish Organisations of Disabled Persons
International Aid Association (Shia).