Mara Nieves Rico

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GLOBAL FORUM ON GENDER STATISTICS Rome, ISTAT,
10-12 December 2007 UNFPA Session Producing
gender statistics through population censuses
Perspectives from the regional commissions
GENDER STATISTICS AND INDICATORS For public
policy-making In Latin America and the Caribbean

• María Nieves Rico
• Women and Development Unit, ECLAC

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ECLAC. Production of gender statistics and
indicators
United Nations system
C O O R D I N A T I O N
Regional commissions
Governments
Women and Development Unit
ECLAC Divisions
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• Regional project on the use of gender indicators
  for public policy-making (2000 to present)
  (UNFPA, UNIFEM, ).
• Design and implementation of an integrated,
  comparative system of gender indicators and
  statistics (32 country profiles). Processing of
  household surveys for 18 countries
  (1994-1999-2002 and 2004/2005).
• Annual updates and dissemination via ECLAC
  publications, its Web portal www.eclac.cl/mujer
  and CEPALSTAT
• Inter-agency coordination, preparation and
  distribution of a technical assistance manual on
  the production and use of gender indicators.

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Objectives of the system of indicators

• To produce the information needed to increase the
  visibility of womens situation and the
  inequality existing between men and women
• To disseminate comparable information
• To promote the use of new indicators (poverty,
  violence, labour)
• To strengthen new information sources (time-use
  surveys)
• To provide technical inputs for policy decisions
• To contribute to user-producer links
• To fulfil mandates on the production and
  dissemination of gender statistics
• Regional Programme of Action for the Women of
  Latin America and the Caribbean (Mar del Plata,
  1994)
• Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World
  Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995)

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Information sources used by the ECLAC system

• Countries Production of official statistics
• Population and housing censuses
• Agricultural censuses
• Household surveys
• Vital statistics
• Violence surveys
• Time-use surveys
• Administrative records

• International agencies
• UNESCO
• ILO
• WHO/PAHO
• FAO
• UNICEF
• ECLAC CELADE

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Censuses as an information source

• Areas covered Education, fertility, mortality,
  employment, health and environmental conditions.
• Indicators and tabulations for a more in-depth
  exploration internal and international
  migration, membership in racial and ethnic
  groups, lifecycle (girls and young women, older
  adults), activity
• ECLAC activities

Caribbean 1990 (11 countries) and 2000 (6
countries) census round
Latin America 2000 (6 countries) census round
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Millennium Development Objectives

• 11 country studies (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia,
  Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru,
  Paraguay, Venezuela (BR) and Uruguay) (2004-2007)
• Regional overview of the Millennium challenges in
  the sphere of gender equality (2007)
• A 2006 report on the Millennium Development Goals
  that looks at equality beween the sexes and the
  autonomy of women in Latin America and the
  Caribbean
• Project on strengthening the capacity of Latin
  American and Caribbean countries to fulfil the
  MDGs
• Project on interregional cooperation to
  strenghten social inclusion, gender equality and
  health promotion within the MDG framework

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ECLAC Governments of the region

• Technical cooperation
• Seminars and workshops
• Inter-agaency agreements
• National gender statistics systems
• Statistical Conference of the Americas working
  group on gender

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Thank you

• María Nieves Rico
• Women and Development Unit, ECLAC