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UNSD-SPC-ADB-UN Regional Workshop on Gender Statistics and Human
Rights Reporting
4 – 8 August 2014, Nadi, Fiji
Gender Statistics on Work in PICTs
Kim Robertson
Gender Statistics Advisor (nearly), Human Development Programme
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Noumea, New Caledonia
[email protected]
(www.spc.int.hdp)
Data Sources
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Household Labour Force Survey (Fiji, Tonga, RMI)
Census of Population and Housing
Household Income and Expenditure Survey
DHS
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Business surveys
Superannuation funds
Taxation data
Labour
Immigration
Challenges
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Concept of “work” or “main activity”
Is subsistence work or survival?
No Time Use survey programme
Very limited data on unpaid work
Use of classifications at the most detailed level
Accurate data on wages and earnings, hours worked
Part time employment and secondary employment
Enterprises operated by the household
Intermittent work – work for school fees
Migrant labour
Getting access to the data
No regional standard – difficult to compare rates, indicators
Men are more likely than women to be engaged in
Women are more likely than men to be engaged in
vulnerable cash employment in Fiji
vulnerable employment in the Solomon Islands
Proportion of own-account and contributing family workers in total
Proportion of subsistence, own-account and contributing family
employment, women, men, 2010
workers in total employment, women, men, 2010
Vanuatu
Vanuatu
11%
32%
15%
38%
Solomon Is
Solomon Is
3%
37%
3%
25%
Samoa
Samoa
7%
6%
11%
40%
Kiribati
Kiribati
18%
22%
21%
27%
Fiji
Fiji
1%
10%
8%
0%
5%
Women Men
14%
10%
15%
20%
25%
Source: Fiji 2007 Census (10 years and over), Kiribati 2010 Census, Solomon Is 2010 Census
(14 years and over), Samoa 2011 Census, Vanuatu 2009 Census.
0%
10%
Women Men
20%
30%
40%
50%
Source: Fiji 2007 Census (10 years and over), Kiribati 2010 Census, Solomon Is 2010
Census (14 years and over), Samoa 2011 Census, Vanuatu 2009 Census.