Global Gender Statistics Programme
Haoyi Chen
Social and Housing Statistics Section
United Nations Statistics Division
Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of
Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014
United Nations Statistics Division
Outline
• Global Gender Statistics Programme
– Overview
– Main areas of work
• EDGE project
Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of
Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014
United Nations Statistics Division
Global Gender Statistics Programme
Mandated by the
UN Statistical Commission
Coordinated by the
Inter-agency and Expert Group
on Gender Statistics IAEG-GS
Goal:
To enhance the capacity of countries to
collect, disseminate and use reliable
statistics and indicators to assess the
relative situation of women and men in
gender-sensitive, policy-relevant areas
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Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014
Implemented by the
UN Statistics Division/key
partners
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Programme areas and objectives
1. International Coordination
 Objective: Improve global coherence
2. Methods
 Objective: Promote methodological developments
3. Capacity-Building
 Objective: Build technical capacity
4. Data Management & Dissemination
 Objective: Improve access to data and materials
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Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014
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1. International Coordination
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Improving coordination and synergies among existing initiatives on
gender statistics
Global Forums
IAEG-GS
1st Rome, Dec 2007
2nd Accra, Jan 2009
-Since 2007
-International, regional and national
agencies
-Annual meetings,
8th
3rd Manila, Oct 2010
meeting in 2014
4th Dead Sea, Mar 2012
-UNSD secretariat
5th Aguascalientes,
Nov 2014
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2. Methods/ 3. Capacity-Building
• Promoting methodological development and strengthening
capacity including in emerging areas of gender concern
• Integrating a Gender Perspective into
Statistics
 New Manual (available online on UNSD Wikiplatform)
• Violence against Women
 UN Guidelines for the Production of Statistics on
Violence Against Women, 2013
• Time Use
 International Classification of Activities for Time Use
Statistics-ICATUS
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4. Data Management & Dissemination
• Data/metadata platform
– Minimum Set of Gender Indicators
• Agreed by IAEG-GS in 2011 and by UN Stat
Commission in 2013
• Data available online
• Continuation of the World’s Women series
- Analysis of trends in key areas, review of data availability
- March 2015: soft launch of the World’s Women 2015
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Minimum Set of Gender Indicators
@ unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/data
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Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of
Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014
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Minimum Set of Gender Indicators
• Internationally-agreed indicators to monitor gender equality
and women’s empowerment (IAEG-GS 2011 and UN Statistical
Commission 2013)
– Gender indicators (52)
– Gender indicators related to national norms (11)
• Five domains
– Economic structures, participation in productive activities and
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access to resources
Education
Health and related services
Human rights of women and the girl child
Public life and decision-making
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Organization of indicators in Tiers
Tier I
• Indicators conceptually clear, with an agreed international
definition and regularly produced by countries
 International data compilation
Tier II
• Indicators conceptually clear, with an agreed international
definition, but not yet regularly produced by countries
 Promoting capacity building activities
Tier III
• Indicators for which international standards need still to be
developed and not regularly produced by countries
 Methodological developments – e.g., EDGE project
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Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014
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Recent activities
EDGE project –
Evidence and Data for Gender Equality
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Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014
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EDGE Project
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A 3-year initiative (UNSD and UN Women)
Overall objective:
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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 on “emerging issues”:
Developing methods/guidelines to collect entrepreneurship and
assets ownership data, and piloting them in selected countries
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Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014
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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
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Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014
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http://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/default.html
Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of
Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014
United Nations Statistics Division