Transcript Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics Francesca Grum, Chief Social and Housing Statistics Section UNSD International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon,

Integrating a Gender Perspective into
Statistics
Francesca Grum, Chief
Social and Housing Statistics Section
UNSD
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
United Nations Statistics Division
Outline
• Overview
– Integrating a gender perspective into official statistics
– National programmes on gender statistics
• Emerging issues: measuring asset ownership and
entrepreneurship from a gender perspective - EDGE
project
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
United Nations Statistics Division
What are 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).
Gender statistics =
1 Data are collected and presented disaggregated by sex; +
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.
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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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
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
United Nations Statistics Division
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
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Better exploitation, tabulation and dissemination of existing
data;
Collection of new data,
Development of new gender-sensitive concepts and methods
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12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
United Nations Statistics Division
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
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
United Nations Statistics Division
Global review of Gender Statistics Programmes
in countries
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
United Nations Statistics Division
Global Review - Objectives
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Conduct a review of gender statistics in national
statistical systems
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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
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
United Nations Statistics Division
Global Review: 5 main topics
1. Institutional arrangements
2. Production (including data collection) of gender
statistics
3. Addressing users’ needs
4. Assessment of mainstreaming gender into national
statistical system
5. Legal framework
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
United Nations Statistics Division
Global Review: 5 main topics
1. Institutional arrangements
2. Production (including data collection) of gender
statistics
3. Addressing users’ needs
4. Assessment of mainstreaming gender into national
statistical system
5. Legal framework
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
United Nations Statistics Division
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.
100%
75%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
ECA
ECE
Fully achieved
ESCAP
Partially achieved
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
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Not met
ESCWA
All
No overall objective stated
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1. Institutional arrangements
Gender Statistics Entities
Question 1: Gender statistics entities
% countries by type of gender statistics entity
Type of gender statistics entity
ESCAP (N=24)
All countries (N=126)
- 62.5
68.2
50.0
49.2
+ 41.7
+ 37.5
31.7
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
Gender statistics focal point /desk in NSO
Gender focal points in different government
ministries/agencies
Gender statistics working groups, advisory
group
Gender statistics dedicated office within the
NSO
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31.0
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1. Institutional arrangements
Budgets
Questions 4 and 6: Budgets for gender statistics
ESCAP
All
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
% with a dedicated gender statistics budget
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2. Production of Gender Statistics
ESCAP - production of gender statistics, regularity
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Labour Force
Unemployment
Mortality
Education and Training
Poverty
Morbidity
Unpaid work
Disability
Access to health services
Sexual and reproductive
Adolescent fertility
Agriculture
Entrepreneurship
Power and decision
Child marriage
Violence against women
ICT
Access to clean water
Access to sanitation
Informal employment
Satelite Accounts
Media
Regularly produced
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
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Produced on irregular basis
Not produced
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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,
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
United Nations Statistics Division
Mixed progress in gender statistics
 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
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
United Nations Statistics Division
EDGE project –
Evidence and Data for Gender Equality
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
United Nations Statistics Division
EDGE Project
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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
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Undertake methodological work “emerging issues”:
Developing methods/guidelines to collect entrepreneurship
and assets data, and piloting them in selected countries
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
United Nations Statistics Division
EDGE Results
1
Health
Education
Employment
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;
3
Results of pilot testing in
selected countries
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
United Nations Statistics Division
International Seminar on Gender Statistics,
12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea
United Nations Statistics Division