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International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea

United Nations Statistics Division

Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics

Francesca Grum, ChiefSocial and Housing Statistics Section

UNSD



Outline

• Emerging issues: measuring asset ownership and entrepreneurship from a gender perspective - EDGE project

• Overview– Integrating a gender perspective into official statistics– National programmes on gender statistics



Gender statistics are defined as statistics that adequately reflect differences and inequalities in the situation of women and men in all areas of life (UN World’s Women 2005).

What are gender statistics?

Gender statistics =

2 Data are reflecting gender issues;

3 Data are based on concepts and definitions that adequately reflect the diversity of women and men and capture all aspects of their lives;

4 Data collection methods take into account stereotypes and social and cultural factors that may induce gender biases.

1 Data are collected and presented disaggregated by sex; ++

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Gender Statistics-mainstreaming

– More than data disaggregated by sex

– Respond to the needs of policy makers, advocates, researchers, the media and the public

– Gender dimension is integrated at all stages of data production (planning, data collection, data analysis, data dissemination) and in all statistical fields



Four-step plan for developing gender statistics

1. Identify gender issues (user-producer cooperation is key)

2. Identify data needed to address those gender issues

3. Assess the availability and quality of existing gender statistics

4. If gap between data needed and existing data • Better exploitation, tabulation and dissemination of existing

data;• Collection of new data,• Development of new gender-sensitive concepts and methods



Mainstreaming a gender perspective into national statistical system requires:

• Leadership and political will at all levels• Specification of formal requirements of gender statistics in

the national statistical legislation• Cooperation between users and producers of statistics• Collaboration of NSOs with other institutions for developing

and improving concepts and methods• Training of statisticians• Re-focus of activities and position of gender units and gender

focal points within the national statistical systems



Global review of Gender Statistics Programmes in countries



Global Review - Objectives

– Conduct a review of gender statistics in national statistical systems

• Mandated by 2011 UN Statistical Commission • Answers received in 2012 from 126 NSOs from 5 UN regions

– Obtain information on how gender perspectives are mainstreamed

Identify good practices and challenges in integrating gender into the production and use of statistics



Global Review: 5 main topics

1. Institutional arrangements2. Production (including data collection) of gender

statistics3. Addressing users’ needs4. Assessment of mainstreaming gender into national

statistical system5. Legal framework



4. Assessment of mainstreaming gender into national statistical system

Mainstreaming/integrating a gender perspective into statistics means that gender issues and gender-based biases are taken into account systematically, in the production of all official statistics and at all stages of data production.

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ECA ECE ESCAP ESCWA All

Fully achieved Partially achieved Not met No overall objective stated

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1. Institutional arrangementsGender Statistics EntitiesQuestion 1: Gender statistics entities

Type of gender statistics entity

% countries by type of gender statistics entity

ESCAP (N=24) All countries (N=126)

Gender statistics focal point /desk in NSO 62.5 68.2

Gender focal points in different government ministries/agencies 50.0 49.2

Gender statistics working groups, advisory group 41.7 31.7

Gender statistics dedicated office within the NSO 37.5 31.0

Gender statistics section in different government ministries/agencies 16.7 27.8

Gender statistics focal point/officer in different offices within the NSO 29.2 27.0

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1. Institutional arrangementsBudgets

Questions 4 and 6: Budgets for gender statistics

ESCAP All

% with a dedicated gender statistics budget 8.3 12.7

% with ad-hoc funds but no dedicated budget 54.2 48.4

% without dedicated budget or ad-hoc funds 37.5 38.9



2. Production of Gender Statistics

ESCAP - production of gender statistics, regularity

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Labour ForceUnemployment

MortalityEducation and Training

PovertyMorbidity

Unpaid workDisability

Access to health servicesSexual and reproductive

Adolescent fertilityAgriculture

EntrepreneurshipPower and decision

Child marriageViolence against women

ICTAccess to clean water

Access to sanitationInformal employment

Satelite AccountsMedia

Regularly produced Produced on irregular basis Not produced



Mixed progress in gender statistics

Global recognition of the importance of Gender Statistics as shown by the existence of dedicated entities/focal points

Some areas are well-covered

Increased availability of statistics and gender statistics mainly due to improved dissemination of sex-disaggregated statistics;

Yet,



Quality gender statistics are still lacking in many countries:

– Data scarcity in areas such as poverty; time use; violence against women; environment

• Data not collected in some countries

• Data already collected not adequately disseminated

• Data disseminated not disaggregated enough to allow the identification of population groups where gender differences are more pronounced

Mixed progress in gender statistics



EDGE project –

Evidence and Data for Gender Equality



EDGE Project A 3-year initiative (UNSD and UN Women)

Overall objective: Improving the integration of gender issues into the regular

production of official statistics for better evidence-based policies

Specific objectives: Compiling at the international level selected indicators:

Having comparable gender indicators on health, education and employment

Undertake methodological work “emerging issues”: Developing methods/guidelines to collect entrepreneurship and assets data, and piloting them in selected countries



EDGE Results

Results of pilot testing in selected countries

HealthEducationEmployment

1 International platform for compiling and disseminating data and metadata on health, education and employment;

2 Methodological report on standards for collection of comparable gender indicators related to entrepreneurship and asset ownership;

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