Transcript United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division Producing gender statistics through population censuses: UNECE Linda Hooper, Statistician Social and Demographic Statistics Section.

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Statistical Division
Producing gender statistics
through population censuses:
UNECE
Linda Hooper, Statistician
Social and Demographic Statistics
Section
UNECE Census Recommendations
Rome, 10-12 November 2007
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Three main points:
1)
Question wording
2)
Sub-population groups
3)
Dissemination of data
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Regional perspective on census and gender analysis
Question wording
How can census questions be improved to
contain more gender relevant concepts?
For example:
• can census questions be improved to
include all women and men who do work
according to the ILO definition?
• Do the current questions capture
persons who have “atypical jobs”?
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Regional perspective on census and gender analysis
Question wording
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Formally there is a clear distinction between
employed and non employed population
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ILO definition: a person is currently employed if
he/she has worked at least one hour the week
previous the survey
Work: for income (cash or kind) or unpaid
production of goods
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Regional perspective on census and gender analysis
Question wording
Prior 1994, US Labour Force Survey (LFS): “What were
you doing most of last week—working, keeping
house, or something else?”
For women who primarily kept house but also did some
paid work, this question appears to have led to
some underreporting of work
Now, US LFS: “Last week, did you do any work for pay
or profit?”
Following the redesign, the survey found an increase in
the number of workers, primarily women, who
usually worked fewer than 10 hours per week
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Question wording
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Elimination of asking head of household
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http://www.cso.ie/census/documents/census_2006_guide_25-27.pdf
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Detailed data and its use
 Gender analysis of special populations
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Inclusion of questions to identify the
subpopulation group status in the census,
can provide very accurate data to measure
the different social and economic status of the
individuals according to both sex and minority
status.
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Unemployment rate by sex and
ethnicity, United Kingdom 2004
Source: Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom
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Dissemination
• Dissemination
• Equality in Ireland 2007 by the Central
Statistics Office of Ireland
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Domains covered in the report:
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Population
Martial status
Family status
Sexual orientation
Religion
Age
Disability
Ethnicity
Traveller community
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Use and dissemination
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Geographic distribution
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Data from population censuses may at times be
presented and analysed in terms of statistics for a
wide variety of geographical units ranging from the
country as a whole to individual small localities or
city blocks.
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Use and dissemination
Family composition
 Working patterns of
couples
 Recombine data
Employment by family situation in Ireland, 2006
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20
10
0
male
female
no children
youngest child
aged 0-3
youngest child
aged 4-5
youngest child
aged 6-17
Source: Ireland CSO Census of Population, 2006
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