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Developing Gender Statistics. Gender and Population Sub Groups. Disadvantaged in terms of social status, education, employment, wealth and other social and economic dimensions. . Source: www.hscripts.com. W omen in some population groups are subject to a double disadvantage, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Developing Gender Statistics
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United NationsEconomic Commission for Europe
Gender and Population Sub Groups
Developing Gender Statistics
Developing Gender Statistics
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United NationsEconomic Commission for Europe
Developing Gender Statistics
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United NationsEconomic Commission for Europe
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Disadvantaged in terms of social status, education, employment,wealth and other social and economic dimensions.
Developing Gender Statistics
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Women in some population groups are subject to a double disadvantage, as minorities, and as women.
Developing Gender Statistics
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Unemployment rate by sex, United Kingdom, 2004
4.6
5
4.2
3.8
4
4.2
4.4
4.6
4.8
5
5.2
Source: ILO LABORSTA Database
Total
Men
Women
Developing Gender Statistics
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Unemployment rate by sex and ethnicity, United Kingdom 2004
Source: Annual Population Survey, January 2004 to December 2004, Office for National Statistics, UK
0 5 10 15 20
All ethnic groupsChinese
Black AfricanBlack Caribbean
Other AsianBangladeshi
PakistaniIndianMixed
Other WhiteWhite Irish
White British
Females Males
Developing Gender Statistics
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Gender Socio-Cultural Background
Statistics on gender and ethnicity are needed • to address inequalities within and between population groups• to monitor and evaluate the impact of policies and measures on minority women and men
Developing Gender Statistics
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Educational attainment, Roma and total population in Southeast Europe
57.5
27
93
81
5658
39
9891
71
510
010
20304050
607080
90100
At leastelementary
At leastprimary
At leastsecondary
At leastelementary
At leastprimary
At leastsecondary
Source: Roma and the Displaced in Southeast Europe, UNDP Bratislava, 2006
Women
Men
Roma Majority
Percent
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Earnings by ethnicity and sex in New Zealand
Male Female Male Female Male Female Male FemaleAverage Weekly Earnings 733 440 565 390 492 398 664 444Median Weekly Earnings 631 403 552 364 479 400 575 384Number of People (000) 796.2 630.9 74.3 63.3 31.2 30.6 42.6 36.5
European/ Pakeha Maori
Pacific Peoples
Other Ethnic Groups
Source: Statistics New Zealand, 1998
Developing Gender Statistics
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Ethnicity
Race
Religion
Language
Is there open debate onethno-cultural
characteristics inyour country?
Developing Gender Statistics
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Declaration of minority group affiliation is sensitive.National statistical offices omit sensitive topics in data collection.
Developing Gender Statistics
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The actual meaning of responses depends on the socio-political environment of the country. Only if it is safe or favorable enough for individuals to identify their minority status, respondents are ready to identify themselves as part of segregated population subgroups..
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Sample size and sample design are crucial to determinethe possibility of obtaining significant data for small groups.
Producing statistically significant results may not always be possible in survey, due to the small number of people from population sub-groups
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Logo of Russian Census, 2002
Administrative data can also be a valuable source of informationon population sub-groups and gender.
Population censuses are a better toolto identify small population groups.
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Cover pages of Statistic and Demographic Yearbooks of Uzbekistan, 2004
Statistics are rarely presented and disseminated broken down by ethnic status.This makes it difficult to measure gender differences within the different ethnic groups.
Developing Gender Statistics
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?What can we do to improvethe quality and availability of statistics on gender and ethno-cultural characteristics?
Developing Gender Statistics
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Office
PopulationSub Group
Member
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Developing Gender Statistics
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Example of pre-coded questions, Ethnicity questionnaire, New Zealand
Example of open-ended questions, Census questionnaire, FYROM
Encourage persons to report their status:Use open-ended instead of pre-coded questions to increase perception of neutrality.
Pre-coded questions: Open-ended questions:
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Source: 2001 Australian Census
Collect information on migration background as a proxy:Information such as • country of birth, • country of birth of parents, • or citizenship may be perceived as less intrusive
Developing Gender Statistics
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Developing Gender Statistics
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United NationsEconomic Commission for Europe
Over-sampling of existing sample surveysshould be considered for some areas or population groups
Developing Gender Statistics
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United NationsEconomic Commission for Europe
Developing Gender Statistics
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United NationsEconomic Commission for Europe
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