National statistical capacity to produce gender statistics

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National statistical capacity to produce gender
statistics

• United Nations Statistics Division
• Francesca Coullare, coullare_at_un.org

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Overview

• National statistical capacity to produce
  statistics by sex assessed through 2 lenses
• Countries capacity to monitor Goal 3 in the MDGs
• Country regular reporting of sex-disaggregated
  data to UNSD (recently presented in The World's
  Women 2005 Progress in Statistics)
• UNSD programme to strengthen gender statistics in
  developing countries

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Countries capacity to monitor MDG 3

• The Millennium Development Goals Indicators
  Website/Database
• mdgs.un.org

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Countries capacity to monitor MDG 3
MDG 3 Promote gender equality and empower women
MDGs global monitoring under the responsibility
of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDGs
Indicators (IAEG), coordinated by
UNSD. -sub-group on gender to address the
following major concerns -identify better
indicators for women participation in
economy -include additional gender
dimensions/concerns (mainly violence against
women and reproductive health)
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Countries capacity to monitor MDG 3
Data availability for the global/regional
monitoring
Percentage of countries with at least 2 data
points since 1990 (excluding modeled data), by
indicator and MDG region
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Proposed revised indicator 11

• 1. Share in total employment
• 2. Agricultural employment
• 2.1 Own account workers, employers
• 2.2 Contributing family workers (informal)
• 2.3 Employees (formal and informal)
• 3. Non-agricultural employment
• 3.1 Own account workers, employers (formal and
  informal)
• 3.2 Contributing family workers (informal)
• 3.3 Employees (excl. domestic employees) (formal
  and informal)
• 3.4 Domestic employees (formal and informal)
• (all disaggregated by sex)

Only work in progress. not included in MDG
indicators framework because of lack of data!
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Countries capacity to produce sex-disaggregated
data

• Extracts from
• The World's Women 2005
• Progress in Statistics

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Countries capacity to produce sex-disaggregated
data
The World's Women 2005 Progress in Statistics

• Focuses on national reporting of sex
  disaggregated statistics on
• demographics,
• health,
• education,
• work,
• violence against women,
• poverty,
• human rights and decision-making.

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ex. (a) Women and the labour forceTheir
Contribution Still Not Fully Captured By Official
Statistics

• Earning power
• Closing the gap between womens and mens pay
  continues to be a major challenge in most parts
  of the world.
• Less than 25 of countries reported data on wages
  by major industry groups disagreggated by sex.

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ex. (b) Bringing Violence Against Women to
Public ScrutinyVery limited data available

• Since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for
  Action in 1995, major improvements in developing
  methodologies and procedures for collecting data
  on violence against women
• But still there is currently only scarce official
  international data collection on this issue.
• WHOs Multi-Country Study on Womens Health and
  Domestic Violence
• UNICEF - MICS

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UN Global Programme on Gender Statistics

• Duration 3 years (2007-2009)
• Location/Executing agency United Nations
  Statistics Division, New York
• Co-operating Agencies In collaboration with the
  Gender Group and Data Group of the World Bank,
  United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) United
  Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• National Counterpart Institutions National
  Statistical Offices and gender statistics focal
  points
• Collaborating Regional Institutions United
  Nations regional commissions (ECA, ECE, ECLAC,
  ESCAP, and ESCWA) and other regional
  organizations (such as CARICOM, ECOWAS, SPC)

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UN Global Programme on Gender Statistics

• Objective to enhance the capacity of countries
  to collect, analyse and disseminate quality
  gender statistics
• Achieved through
• Inter-agency expert group
• web-based Bulletin Board (portal)
• database
• training materials and workshops
• training of trainers
• ad-hoc technical advisory services
• network of resource persons

Official Launch 2007 Global Forum on Gender
Statistics Rome, 10-13 December 2007 Hosted by
ISTAT and co-organized and co-sponsored by UNSD,
ISTAT, UNFPA