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5th Global Forum on Gender Statistics
3 – 5 November 2014, Aguascalientes - Mexico
United Nations Statistics Division
Minimum Set of Gender Indicators Data availability
to measure and monitor gender issues
Francesca Grum, Chief
Social and Housing Statistics Section
UNSD
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5th Global Forum on Gender Statistics
3 – 5 November 2014, Aguascalientes - Mexico
United Nations Statistics Division
Global Gender Statistics Programme
Mandated by the UN Statistical Commission
Coordinated by the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics IAEG-GS
Implemented by the UN Statistics Division/key partners
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5th Global Forum on Gender Statistics
3 – 5 November 2014, Aguascalientes - Mexico
United Nations Statistics Division
United Nations Statistics Division
@ unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/data.html
Minimum Set of Gender Indicators
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5th Global Forum on Gender Statistics
3 – 5 November 2014, Aguascalientes - Mexico
United Nations Statistics Division
Background
• Internationally-agreed indicators to monitor gender equality and women’s empowerment (IAEG-GS 2011 and UN Statistical Commission 2013)
– Gender indicators (52)– Gender indicators related to national norms (11)
• Five domains
– Economic structures, participation in productive activities and access to resources
– Education– Health and related services– Human rights of women and the girl child– Public life and decision-making
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5th Global Forum on Gender Statistics
3 – 5 November 2014, Aguascalientes - Mexico
United Nations Statistics Division
Organization of indicators in Tiers
• Indicators conceptually clear, with an agreed international
definition and regularly produced by countries Tier ITier I
� International data compilation
� Promoting capacity building activities
� Methodological developments – e.g., EDGE project
• Indicators conceptually clear, with an agreed international
definition, but not yet regularly produced by countries Tier IITier II
• Indicators for which international standards need still to be
developed and not regularly produced by countriesTier III Tier III
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5th Global Forum on Gender Statistics
3 – 5 November 2014, Aguascalientes - Mexico
United Nations Statistics Division
Gender data platform
• Improve access to data and methods
• Launched at CSW, 12 March 2014
• Contribution from 14 partner agencies
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5th Global Forum on Gender Statistics
3 – 5 November 2014, Aguascalientes - Mexico
United Nations Statistics Division
Tier I (data available + agreed int’l definition)
� indicators compiled and disseminated online in a
dedicated UNSD platform @
unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/data.html
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5th Global Forum on Gender Statistics
3 – 5 November 2014, Aguascalientes - Mexico
United Nations Statistics Division
Data availability Tier I indicators (35 inds)
Average number of countries with data, by area
Indicators, by number of data points, 1990-2012
Average # countries data are available for
144
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5th Global Forum on Gender Statistics
3 – 5 November 2014, Aguascalientes - Mexico
United Nations Statistics Division
Tier II (some data available + agreed int’l
definition)
� promoting capacity building
– Focus of work on:
Violence Against Women (VAW),
Time Use Statistics (TUS)
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5th Global Forum on Gender Statistics
3 – 5 November 2014, Aguascalientes - Mexico
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Violence against Women: Data availability
Total number of countries with nationally representative data = 110
Number of
countriesAt least 1
survey
1995-2014
At least 2
surveys
1995-2014
At least 1
survey
1995-2004
At least 1
survey
2005-14
Dedicated 61 26 19 57
Module 59 27 25 54
Either 110 54 44 104
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5th Global Forum on Gender Statistics
3 – 5 November 2014, Aguascalientes - Mexico
United Nations Statistics Division
TUS: Data availability
� TUS since 1990:
• 185 surveys/studies on time use conducted worldwide
→92 (50%) in “countries in developing regions”
→93 (50%) in “developed countries”
• In total 85 distinct countries:
→28 “developed countries”
→57 “developing countries”
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sconcerns/tuse/default.aspx
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N= 68 countries with time use data since 2005 (data available at UNSD on unpaid work for 51)
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5th Global Forum on Gender Statistics
3 – 5 November 2014, Aguascalientes - Mexico
United Nations Statistics Division
Tier III = EDGE project –
Evidence and Data for Gender Equality
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5th Global Forum on Gender Statistics
3 – 5 November 2014, Aguascalientes - Mexico
United Nations Statistics Division
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
HealthEducationEmployment
1
International platform for data and metadata on health, education and employment
2
Guidelines for comparable gender indicators on entrepreneurship and asset ownership
3
Results of pilot testing in selected countries
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5th Global Forum on Gender Statistics
3 – 5 November 2014, Aguascalientes - Mexico
United Nations Statistics Division
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/default.html