Transcript United Nations Interagency and Expert Group Meeting on the Development of Gender Statistics New York, 12-14 December 2006 Availability and Use of Tools and Materials.

United Nations
Interagency and Expert Group Meeting on the
Development of Gender Statistics
New York, 12-14 December 2006
Availability and Use of
Tools and Materials for the
Compilation of Statistics and Indicators
Demographic and Social Statistics Branch
United Nations Statistics Division
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Increasing the use of available data
• There are a lot more data than we are using,
even for gender statistics
• Use of data uncovers gaps, deficiencies as
well as unique/special features of datasets
• There is a greater chance of influencing the
production of statistics when informed
feedback and criticisms are given
• Compilation of available data is a first step
to improving availability of gender statistics
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Women and Men publications at
national level
Five of eight countries have such a
publication
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Albania (annually, 1997-2005)
Jordan (1999, one time)
Philippines (1995, 1999, 2003, 2006)
Serbia (2005)
Uzbekistan (2006)
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Focus on Gender Statistics Compilation
Basic Questions
• What tools and materials are available from
UN Statistics Division
• How have they been used to further the
development of gender statistics?
• What other tools and materials are being
used?
• How can we increase the use of the
materials?
• What remains to be done?
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UNSD Tools and Materials
• Handbook for Producing National Statistical
Reports on Women and Men (1997)
• Wistat Women’s Indicators and Statistics
Spreadsheet Database for Microcomputers
(Version 2): Users Guide and Reference
Manual (1992)
• Handbook for National Statistics Data Bases
on Women and Development (1990)
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UNSD Tools and Materials
Technical reports
• Guide to Producing Statistics on Time Use:
Measuring Paid and Unpaid Work (2005)
• Methods of Measuring Women’s economic
activity (1993)
• Methods of Measuring Women’s Participation
and Production in the Informal sector (1990)
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Main purposes of available
tools and materials
• Training
• Potentially all but a selection produced for
this primary purpose
• References
• All publications, reports, technical
manuals, handbooks
• Examples or models
• National, regional and global reports, serve
to guide countries/institutions to produce
similar outputs)
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Use of Materials for Training
• Handbook for Producing National Statistical
Reports on Women and Men (1997)
• Engendering Statistics: A Tool for Change
(1996)
• Guide to Gender-Sensitive Indicators (1997)
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Materials used for Reference
Programme development (regional)
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Regional Workshop on Women and Men in the ESCAP
Region (two workshops)
Southern and Eastern African Countries (two workshops)
Regional Workshops
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Regional Workshop on Social and Gender Statistics in the
CARICOM Region (2000)
Gender Statistics Workshop in the Arab Region (1997,
conducted by ESCWA)
National Workshops
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Ghana
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Other Tools and Materials
Gender statistics reports (national and regional)
• Women and Men in …
• Women in…
Gender statistics booklets
• Women and Men in…
Gender statistics global reports
• The World’s Women …
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Materials used by some countries for
Reference
Indicators for Monitoring the Millennium Development
Goals (UN)
The World’s Women: Trends and Statistics (UN)
Handbook for National statistical Database on Women and
Men (UN)
Handbook for Producing National Statistical Reports on
Women and Men, 1997. UN, New York
Gender sensitive indicators: A key tool for gender
mainstreaming (FAO)
Gender Mainstreaming In Practice: A Handbook (UNDP)
Women in figures (UNFPA - Arab countries)
Human Right Development.
Engendering Statistics: A tool for change, 1996.
(SIDA/Statistics Sweden)
Guide to gender sensitive indicators (CIDA)
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Websites Used by some countries for
Reference
• http://www.unece.org/stats/gender/
• http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Produ
ct.asp?vlnk=1607&Pos=&ColRank=1&Ran
k=272. (ONS-- United Kingdom)
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No materials cited
• Country X (Six training workshops, six
consecutive years of “Women and Men in …)
• Country Y (no training workshops, no
specialized gender statistics publication)
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Observations on the use of available
tools and materials
Only one or two references cited by each country
• Why so few countries make use of the resource available?
Several of the countries have attended regional
workshops/seminars
• Why are they not informed about the available materials?
• Are any of the institutions using others materials?
There is almost no training conducted at the national
level on the compilation of gender statistics
• How should capacity of gender units and gender focal
points be developed?
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Future work
• What are the gaps?
• Topics missing?
• Updating of information?
• Aspects of data compilation, presentation and analysis
yet to be covered?
• To what extent are new initiatives addressing the
gaps?
• How can these and other materials be usefully
combined?
• How can agencies collaborate to build capacity in
a sustainable way?
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