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Gender Statistics,
achievements and
challenges
National Institute of Statistics
Albania
INSTAT & Gender Statistics
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Gender Issues: great importance in the country. This
means: need for gender statistics.
INSTAT is the key institution of producing and
disseminating data in the country; it has a crucial role
regarding gender statistics.
Since 1998: Women and Men in Albania
Participation in different researches and studies
regarding gender issues.
Trying to improve the current situation of gender
statistics.
Legislation
The statistical law does not specify the
production and dissemination of sexdisaggregated data.
 The recent law on equal opportunities outlines
the collection of sex-disaggregated data.
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Collaboration
With different NGOs, Committee for Equal
Opportunities, research and academic
institutions (Gender Institute FoSS).
 Need for a better coordination with the other
producers: ministries in order to improve the
administrative records (one of the main
sources of data). Some ministries does not
collect sex-disaggregated data.
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International collaboration
Very positive : they stress on the need for
gender statistics.
 International partners are very committed in
supporting INSTAT to improve gender
statistics.
 Sida-Statistic Sweden, UNDP, SDC
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Some achievements
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LSMS: useful sex-disaggregated data (employment,
poverty, education etc)
The research publication based on Census 2001 data
Gender Perspectives in Albania
Gender perspectives in NSSED …… !!!
Common Country Assessment 2004. A chapter on
Gender equality and a strong effort to mainstream
gender through the entire document. One of the
objectives : Identify data gaps.
Problems…
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Violence against Women : lack of data
Main sources: different studies and surveys by NGOs
and IOs. No institutional response…….
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Need for surveys. Actually no Time Use Survey,
LFS or HBS – useful sources of sex- disaggregated
data. (Hope that INSTAT will conduct a LFS or HBS in the
future: include questions on Time Use)
Ideas for the (near) future
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Improve the relationship between users-producers.
Propose to all the interested users to send to INSTAT their
needs on sex-disaggregated data or on analysis.
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Organize activities to improve the coordination
between producers: raise the awareness for the
importance of collecting sex-disaggregated data.
Wishes
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Have more completed sex-disaggregated data.
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Use these data to fight against gender
inequalities.