GLOBAL FORUM ON GENDER STATISTICS

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GLOBAL FORUM ON GENDER STATISTICS

• Session 8 Engendering household surveys
  measuring work, a 5-Country Panel
• Sophia Lawrence, International Labour Office

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Engendered labour statistics mean

• Account for different work realities at each
  stage of production.
• Methods incorporate awareness
• different ways in which men and women
• view, perform, control, benefit from
• Their work activities.
• Conventional focus is male-oriented...

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Engendered household surveys require

• Coverage all topics types of activity
• Work in widest sense, working time, WTAs,
  job-seeking behaviour etc.
• Multiple/combined activities, casual work,
  subsistence/informal employment, etc.
• Adequate detail
• decision-making / executing posts, entrepreneurs
  / home, gang workers, income components
  (benefits, overtime?), place of work, small
  production units, etc...
• Relevant disaggregation
• personal characteristics, job characteristics,
  family context/personal circumstances, etc.

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Hhld Survey challenges

• Question formulations
• overcome biases ensure application of
  definitional criteria.
• Independent measurement reporting
• higher chance men women receive equal
  statistical treatment.
• Coverage of all productive activity
• unpaid non-market services, incl. volunteers.
• Truly reflecting realities -gt change towards
  gender-equality

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8-HS measuring work, ILO 5 country panel
Emerging conclusions

• Work translates differently for women men
  surveys and their results must address and
  reflect these realities
• In the different world regions, countries
  efforts to engender surveys are similar - even
  though manifestations of gender inequalities may
  be distinct
• Household surveys with their capacity to collect
  detailed information play a unique role in labour
  statistics to show up gender differences between
  women and men

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8 HS Future actions

• To ensure gender integration in measurement of
  work
• Coordinate institutional framework - gender
  specific bodies/programs, statistical agencies,
  civil society etc
• Harmonize the household survey program to ensure
  engendered coverage of all topics and at all
  stages of production
• Collect data in adequate detail to permit
  meaningful analysis of men and womens different
  situations improved information compensates
  extra costs