Manual on Gender Sensitization Training for Statisticians

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Manual on Gender Sensitization Training for
Statisticians

• UNECE Task Force on Gender Sensitization Training
  for Statisticians
• Work Session on Gender Statistics
• September 12, 2006

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Panel on the Gender Sensitization Task Force

• What the task force is doing
• Why gender sensitization of statisticians
• How do we gender sensitize a national statistical
  office

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History of the Task Force

• At 2004 Work Session, work on gender
  sensitization of statisticians/national
  statistical office was proposed as future work
• Creation of the task force on gender
  sensitization training (early 2005)
• Meeting of task force to begin work on manual
  outline (November 2005)

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Objective of the Manual on Gender Sensitization
Training for Statisticians

• Help statisticians change the national
  statistical system to improve the gender
  relevance of the statistics produced and
  disseminated in a country

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Target Audiences

• Main target was statisticians at national
  statistical offices at all levels
• Secondary target was data users who wanted to
  influence how NSOs collected, analyzed, and
  produced gender statistics

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Task Force Work

• Created an outline for the manual
• Outline (Paper 31)
• What is gender and what are gender statistics and
  gender analysis
• Why do we need gender statistics
• How to gender sensitize NSOs
• Annexes
• Workshop testing ideas/concepts from manual
  (September 14, 2006)
• Feedback from Work Session