BYROSEARY USIDE KONGANI

KENYA NATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS

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Integrating Gender Perspective in Statistics

4-7 December 2012 Kampala, Uganda

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Demographic Characteristics Education Labour Force Household and Housing Amenities Persons with Disabilities Conclusions and Recommendations

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The Government’s commitment and efforts to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment are reflected in the ratification of numerous international conventions and instruments such as Convention on◦ Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against

Women (CEDAW),◦ Beijing Platform for Action, and the ◦ United Nations Universal Declaration of Human

Rights, among others

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Introduction

The millennium development goals are internationally agreed upon for social economic development. The status of achieving these goals is highlighted in various chapters of the Gender Dimensions Monograph.

Existing policies and programmes, methodology and conceptual framework.

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Source: 2009 Population and Housing Census

Explores how change in population growth and distribution directly affect the living conditions of people and gives a gender perspective of the major demographic characteristics; fertility, mortality, migration and urbanization.

These demographic factors have profound effects on human development along the lifecycle e.g. age at first marriage, age at first birth etc.

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Education Labour Force Household and Asset Ownership PWDs

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Attendance Status Attainment Enrolment Dropout Rate Never went to school

GER: Females-109.2, Males-112.2 (Primary) NET: Females-79.7, Males-77.8 “

GER: Females-49, Males-54 (Secondary) NER: Females-28, Males-23 “

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Age

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The gender gap tends to increase in higher levels of education where females reduce in number.

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Economic StatusEmployedUnemployedWorking ChildrenEconomically Inactive

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Household headship Marital StatusEconomic status

◦Working◦Unemployed◦Inactive

Asset Ownership

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Types of disabilities◦Visual◦Hearing◦Speech◦Physical◦Mental◦Self-care◦Other

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Types of Disabilities

Education Attainment PrimarySecondaryHigher Education

Economic StatusWorkingUnemployedInactive

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Radio TV Car Land Cattle

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Analysis based on household headship

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