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National statistical capacity to produce

gender statistics

United Nations Statistics Division

Francesca Coullare, coullare@un.org

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Overview

• National statistical capacity to produce statistics by sex assessed through 2 lenses:

1. Countries’ capacity to monitor Goal 3 in the MDGs

2. 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

Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015

9. Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education

10. Ratio of literate women to men, 15-24 years old

11. Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector

12. Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament

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)

MDG 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

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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

Ind. 9 Ind. 10 Ind. 11 Ind.12

Primary Secondary Tertiary Youth Literacy Employment Parliament

Developing Regions 86 85 68 - 55 81

Northern Africa 83 83 50 - 67 67

Sub-Saharan Africa 94 92 82 - 28 96

Latin America & Caribbean 83 83 57 - 76 72

Eastern Asia 83 83 83 - 83 67

Southern Asia 89 89 78 - 67 100

South-eastern Asia 82 82 82 - 73 82

Western Asia 100 100 93 - 80 87

Oceania 65 60 30 - 25 60

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Proposed revised indicator 11

1. Share in total employment

2. Agricultural employment2.1 Own account workers, employers2.2 Contributing family workers (informal)2.3 Employees (formal and informal)

3. Non-agricultural employment3.1 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

– Focuses on national reporting of sex disaggregated statistics on:

• demographics, • health, • education, • work, • violence against

women, • poverty, • human rights and

decision-making.

Number of non-reporting countries

(out of 204)Less reported topicsover 1995-2003 period

56 Population by sex and age

66 School enrollment

81 Economic activity by sex and age

108 Unemployment by sex and age

152 Wages by major industry group and sex

The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics

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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 women’s and men’s 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 Scrutiny:Very 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.

– WHO’s Multi-Country Study on Women’s 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