On Meeting
Gender Data Needs
in the Philippines
Presented by
Romulo A. Virola
Secretary General
National Statistical Coordination Board, Philippines
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and 55th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
Making Gender Statistics Meaningful on the Ground
Organized by UNFPA, UNSD, and UN-Women
8:30-10:00 a.m., 24 February 2011, Conference Room D, North Lawn Building
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Outline of Presentation
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I.
Background
II.
Efforts of the Philippine Statistical System in the
Compilation of Gender Statistics
III.
Making Gender Statistics Meaningful on the Ground:
The Philippine Experience
IV.
Data (Coherence) Challenges
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I. Background
Promotion of Gender Concerns in the Philippines:
•Guided by internationally agreed frameworks/commitments,
such as the:
•Beijing Platform for Action
•Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW)
•Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
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I. Background
Promotion of Gender Concerns in the Philippines:
•Guided by local legal/official frameworks such as the:
1. The 1987 Constitution – “The state recognizes the role of
women in nation-building, and shall ensure the fundamental
equality before the law of women and men."
2. Executive Order No. 348 of 1989, Approving and Adopting
the Philippine Development Plan for Women for 1989 to 1992
• Mandates the creation of Gender and Development
(GAD) focal points within an agency, a sector or a
locality.
• Executive Order No. 273 – The 1995-2025 Philippine Plan for
Gender Responsive Development (PPGD)
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I. Background
Promotion of Gender Concerns in the Philippines:
•Guided by local legal/official frameworks such as the:
3. Republic Act 7192 of 1992, Women in Development and NationBuilding Act
4. Section 27 of the General Appropriations Act of the Republic
of the Philippines
- States that all departments, bureaus, offices and agencies
shall set aside an amount to be used for gender-responsive
projects with the minimum amount of 5% of an agency’s total
appropriation.
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I. Background
Promotion of Gender Concerns in the Philippines:
•Guided by local legal/official frameworks such as the:
5. Magna Carta of Women (15 September 2009)
Mandates all government offices to
• adopt gender mainstreaming as a strategy - planning,
budgeting, monitoring and evaluation for gender and
development,
• creation and/or strengthening of gender and development
focal points, and
• generation and maintenance of gender statistics and sexdisaggregated databases to aid in planning, programming
and policy formulation.
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I. Background
Now widely recognized that,
Efforts aimed at advancing the status of women require timely
and accurate information on the situation of women and
men.
In the Philippines,
The Philippine Statistical System (PSS) has institutionalized
various mechanisms to provide the necessary data support to
gender-responsive development.
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II. Efforts of the Philippine Statistical System
in the Compilation of Gender Statistics
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Framework of Statistical Coordination in the PSS
Judicial and
Legislative
Office
Data Users
Executive
Office
Policy-making/
Coordinating
Agency
Training, Education
and Research
Institutions
Data Producers
Data Providers/
Respondents
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Framework of Statistical Coordination in the PSS
The Decentralized Philippine Statistical System
Major Statistical Agencies
National
Statistics
Office
produces
agricultural
statistics
Bureau of
Agricultural
Statistics
National
Statistical
Coordination
Board
produces money
and banking
statistics
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Bangko
Sentral ng
Pilipinas
Policy-making
and
coordinating
body
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produces
general-purpose
statistics
Bureau of
Labor and
Employment
Statistics
Statistical
Research and
Training
Center
Produces
establishment
- based labor
and
employment
statistics
conducts shortterm courses in
statistics and
researches to
enhance
methodologies,
concepts, etc.
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II. Efforts of the Philippine Statistical System in the Compilation
of Gender Statistics
What Do We Have In the Philippines?
A. Statistical Policies on Gender Statistics
B. Coordination Mechanisms on Gender Statistics
C. Gender Statistical Products and Services
D. Access to Gender Statistical Products and Services
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II. Efforts of the Philippine Statistical System in the Compilation
of Gender Statistics
A. Statistical Policies on Gender Statistics
1. NSCB Resolution No. 8, Series of 1994 – Enjoining Different
Agencies to Promote Gender Concerns in the Generation of
Statistics
- Provides for strong data support for the effective
implementation of various laws protecting the rights of
women.
2. NSCB Resolution No. 5, Series of 2001 - Approval and Adoption
of the Statistical Framework on Gender and Development
Indicators System
- Contains the key macroeconomic impact indicators needed
to monitor and assess the state of gender and development in
the country.
- Serves as reference for government and non-government
organizations in the formulation of indicators for monitoring
and assessment of outputs and impact of their GAD activities.
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II. Efforts of the Philippine Statistical System in the Compilation
of Gender Statistics
A. Statistical Policies on Gender Statistics
3. NSCB Resolution No. 6 - Series of 2001 – Approval and
Adoption of the Statistical Framework and Glossary Related to
the Protection of Women and Children
- Directing all concerned government agencies to adopt the
Framework and the Glossary in the generation and analysis of
VAWC statistics.
4. NSCB Resolution No. 12 - Series of 2005 – Approving the
Recommendations of the Interagency Committee on Gender
Statistics
- To ensure the continuing efforts in the generation of gender
statistics and institutionalize the implementation of the Core
GAD framework.
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II. Efforts of the Philippine Statistical System in the Compilation
of Gender Statistics
A. Statistical Policies on Gender Statistics
5. Official Concepts and Definitions for Statistical Purposes on
the Gender and Development Sector
To date, there are 56 concepts on violence against women
and children and 10 other gender-related terms to
standardize the generation of gender statistics
(http://www.nscb.gov.ph/glossary/terms/sector.asp.)
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II. Efforts of the Philippine Statistical System in the Compilation
of Gender Statistics
B. Coordination Mechanisms on Gender Statistics
1. Interagency Committee on Gender Statistics (IACGS)
- Aims to resolve statistical issues and to address emerging
concerns on gender statistics to be able to provide
relevant reliable and timely data for planning and
programming purposes concerning women.
- Composition:
Chair:
Philippine Commission on Women (PCW)
Co-Chair: National Statistics Office (NSO)
Vice-Chair: National Statistical Coordination Board
Members: GAD focal points of 17 member agencies
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II. Efforts of the Philippine Statistical System in the Compilation
of Gender Statistics
Some Accomplishments of the IAC on Gender Statistics
• Recommendations on the following:
1. Official concepts and definitions for statistical purposes for
the gender and development sector
2. Philippine MDG targets on GAD-related indicators
3. Development of a Directory on Gender Statistics and
Focal Points
4. Conduct of a Statistical Advocacy Forum on Gender
Statistics
5. Creation of the Small Working Group on the Measurement
of the Economic Contribution of Women
• Comments/Inputs on the following:
1. MDG expanded indicators relating to GAD
2. Methodology to measure Gender Development Index
(GDI), at the subnational level
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II. Efforts of the Philippine Statistical System in the Compilation
of Gender Statistics
B. Coordination Mechanisms on Gender Statistics (cont.)
2. Philippine Statistical Development Program (PSDP) – NSDS
Chapter on Social Needs, and Gender and Development
- Serves as a guide to the PSS in the formulation and implementation of
statistical activities during the period as well as the directions/work
plan of the NSCB-coordinated IAC-GS.
- One chapter is the Social Needs, Gender and Development, which
particularly addresses concerns on the generation, dissemination,
and utilization of statistics on women and children.
3.
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National Convention on Statistics (NCS)
- Triennially conducted/ spearheaded by the NSCB, provides a forum
for practitioners and theoreticians in the field of statistics to discuss
emerging statistical issues and concerns.
- A session on gender statistics is regularly organized and has always
been one of the most popular sessions during the NCS.
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II. Efforts of the Philippine Statistical System in the Compilation
of Gender Statistics
B. Coordination Mechanisms on Gender Statistics (cont.)
4. National Women’s Month
-Spearheaded by the Philippine Commission on Women, which
aims to promote the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and widen its reach
among policy makers, planners and other stakeholders with
emphasis on promoting women's economic rights and
empowerment.
5.Millennium Development Goals
-NSCB serves as repository of official Philippine MDG statistics
-MDG Report is the collaborative effort of various agencies
6. Hosting of International Conferences (the 3rd Global Forum
on Gender Statistics)
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II. Efforts of the Philippine Statistical System in the Compilation
of Gender Statistics
B. Coordination Mechanisms on Gender Statistics (cont.)
7. Cadre of Gender and Development (GAD) focal points in the
different government agencies (Magna Carta of Women)
8. Conduct of consultative meetings with data users and data
producers to thresh out issues –established tradition in the PSS
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II. Efforts of the Philippine Statistical System in the Compilation
of Gender Statistics
C. Gender Statistical Products and Services
NSCB:
1. Online Interactive Gender Statistical Database
(http://www.nscb.gov.ph/gender/index.asp)
2. Annual Factsheet on Women and Men
3. Biennial Statistical Handbook on Women and Men (Central Office and all
nine Regional Divisions)
4. Poverty Statistics among the Basic Sectors (includes women and children)
5. Statistically Speaking web articles,
(http://www.nscb.gov.ph/headlines/StatsSpeak/default.asp)
6. MDGWatch (http://www.nscb.gov.ph/stats/mdg/mdg_watch.asp)
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II. Efforts of the Philippine Statistical System in the Compilation
of Gender Statistics
C. Gender Statistical Products and Services –NSCB-Developmental
Activity
Indicators used/generated
Area for improvement
1. Local-level genderdevelopment index (GDI) –
with UNDP
Provincial and municipal GDI •Replication in all cities and
follows the HDI framework
municipalities in the country;
•Greater data support from
local government units
(Note: For the estimation of the
municipal gender-related health •Users/stakeholders need to
index, proportion of population
demonstrate actual policy
aged 50 and above was used
uses
instead of life expectancy.)
2. Development of
methodology for the
estimation of the Child
Development Index (CDI) –
with UNICEF
National and regional CDI
follows the HDI framework
Infants
1-5 years
6-10 years
11-17 years
Expansion of the SNA
production boundary to
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3. Estimation of women’s
contribution to the economy
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•Replication in all provinces
in the country
•Integration in the State of
the Filipino Children Report
•Users/stakeholders need to
demonstrate actual policy
uses
•Methods for valuing unpaid
work
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II. Efforts of the Philippine Statistical System in the Compilation
of Gender Statistics
C. Gender Statistical Products and Services
Other PSS Agencies:
•
Aside from “conventional” gender statistics produced from censuses and
surveys, following are some of the new statistics on gender in the Philippines:
Area of
Concern
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Indicators
Source
1. Health
Attitude on sex-related issues
Young Adult Fertility and
Sexuality Study, UPPI
2. Peace and
human rights
Awareness or experiences of violation of
women/men’s ancestral domains and lands
CHR-NCIP-NSCB-NSOSRTC Metagora Project
3. Public life
Judges and lawyers trained; bar passers, etc.
Supreme Court
4. Agriculture
Access to microfinance credit; beneficiaries
of agrarian reform
Department of
Agriculture
5. Violence
against
women
Module on VAW
National Demographic
and Health Survey, NSO
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Women’s Safety Module
(2008 National Demographic and Health Survey)
Section
1.
Violence
Experienced
by women
aged 15-49
Data Collected
Physical Violence
•
Percentage of women who experienced physical violence
since aged 15
•
Persons who committed the violence
•
Percentage of women who have ever experienced physical
violence during pregnancy
Sexual Violence
•
Percentage who said that their first experience of sexual
intercourse was forced against their will
•
Percentage of women who ever experienced sexual violence
2. Measures of
Marital Control
•
Percentage of ever-married women whose husbands have
ever exhibited specific types of controlling behavior
Controlling behaviors exhibited by husbands were:
1) to be jealous or angry when women communicate with other men;
2) frequently accuses of unfaithfulness;
3) does not permit to see her female friends;
4) tries to limit contact with families;
5) insists on knowing where she is at all times; and
6) does not trust her with the money.
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Women’s Safety Module
(2008 National Demographic and Health Survey)
Section
3. Marital Violence
Data Collected
•
Percentage of ever-married who have experienced
specific forms of violence committed by their husband
- currently married women were asked about 7 specific
acts of physical violence, 4 forms of sexual violence and
7 other forms of violence including emotional violence
within the marriage
Frequency of Spousal Violence
•
Frequency of spousal violence among those who
reported violence
Consequences of Spousal Violence
-respondents are asked if, as a consequence of what their
husband did to them, they ever had:
1) physical injuries
2) loss of job
3) depression
4) attempted suicide
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Women’s Safety Module
(2008 National Demographic and Health Survey)
Section
4. Violence Initiated by Women Against Husbands
Data Collected
•
•
5. Response to Violence
•
•
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Percentage of women who ever initiated
violence against their husband
Percentage of women who have
committed physical violence against
their husband
Percentage of women who fought back
physically, fought back verbally or
sought help from any source to stop the
violence
Sources from which help was sought
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D. Availability/Access to Gender Statistical Products and Services
From the Gender Statistics page of the NSCB website:
1. STATISTICAL PRODUCTS AND DATABASES
1.1 Online interactive gender database
(http://www.nscb.gov.ph/gender/index.asp)
- Focuses on the situation of women relative to men in the following
major areas of concern, in accordance with the BPA:
i)
ii)
iii)
iv)
v)
vi)
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Population and Families (6)
Work (10)
Economic Participation (4)
Agriculture (7)
Education (8)
Health and Nutrition (11)
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vii) Social Welfare (6)
viii) Public Life (6)
ix) Migration (4)
x) Peace and Human Rights (3)
xi) Violence Against Women and Children(10)
xii) Environment (2)
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D. Availability/Access to Gender Statistics
From the Gender Statistics page of the NSCB website:
1. STATISTICAL PRODUCTS AND DATABASES (cont.)
1.2 Annual FactSheet on Women and Men
(http://www.nscb.gov.ph/factsheet/pdf10/Women_Men_Marc
h2010.pdf)
- Produced annually as part of the National Women’s Month
celebration by the NSCB Central Office and all its nine
Regional Divisions.
- Contains 65 indicators covering 14 socio-economic sectors
and gender concerns.
As part of other web pages within the NSCB website:
1.3 MDGWatch
- Provides statistics at a glance of the Philippines' Progress
based on the MDG indicators
(http://www.nscb.gov.ph/stats/mdg/mdg_watch.asp)
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D. Availability/Access to Gender Statistics
As part of other web pages within the NSCB website:
1. STATISTICAL PRODUCTS AND DATABASES (cont.)
1.4 Online interactive MDG database
(http://www.nscb.gov.ph/iMDGs/)
-Provide users a user-friendly and interactive experience on
monitoring the MDGs
-Contains: 1) time series data of MDG indicators starting from
1990 to the latest available data; and 2) subnational MDG
data.
-Graphs and thematic maps can be generated online and
datasets can be downloaded for free in various file formats.
1.5 MDG Motion Charts (powered by Google Docs)
(http://www.nscb.gov.ph/iMDGs/)
-Presents MDG data using powerful data visualization tools
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D. Availability/Access to Gender Statistics
As part of other web pages within the NSCB website:
2. RESEARCH PAPERS, STUDIES,
2.1 Statistically Speaking web articles on gender statistics
(http://www.nscb.gov.ph/headlines/StatsSpeak/default.asp)
- These are NSCB web articles, which presents viewpoints
and perspectives of the members of the NSCB Technical
Staff on various statistical concerns.
- It seeks to assist the users by informing, enlightening, and
guiding them on various statistical concerns, including
GAD.
2.2 NSCB papers/studies on women’s contribution to the
economy
- NSCB studies in 1998, 1999, 2007, and 2010 on the
measurement of the contribution of women and men,
accounting for unpaid work.
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D. Availability/Access to Gender Statistics
As part of other web pages within the NSCB website:
3. STATISTICAL POLICIES, including concepts & definitions
3.1 NSCB Resolutions and Memorandum Orders
(http://www.nscb.gov.ph/resolutions/default.asp )
-
Policy measures approved by the NSCB Executive Board in the
form of resolutions and memorandum orders designed to
introduce new statistical frameworks and activities, enhance
existing methodologies, and improve the quality and
accessibility of government-produced statistics, including
concerns on GAD.
4. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES HOSTED
4.1 Webpage on the 3rd Global Forum on Gender Statistics
(http://www.nscb.gov.ph/events/globalforum/default.asp)
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III. Making Gender Statistics Meaningful
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III. Making Gender Statistics Meaningful on the Ground:
The Philippine Experience
1. Addressing data gaps through generation of small area
estimates
Some experiences in the PSS:
1.1 City and municipal level GDI
-Used small area estimation techniques to generate income
data at the city and municipal levels; and used as one of the
three components of the GDI
-Undertaken for five pilot provinces
1.2 Poverty statistics among women
-Used merged survey data sets (i.e., FIES and LFS) to estimate
sex-disaggregated income
1.3 FactSheets/Statistical Handbooks on Women and Men
prepared by NSCB Regional Divisions (Subnational)
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III. Making Gender Statistics Meaningful on the Ground:
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2. Increasing Use of Gender statistics in conceptualizing
development project proposals on women
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Women (GREAT Women) Project
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Aims to promote and support a gender-responsive enabling
environment for women’s economic empowerment,
particularly those in microenterprises
5-year Project (2006-2011), with funding support from CIDA
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III. Making Gender Statistics Meaningful on the Ground:
The Philippine Experience
3. Using gender/MDG statistics to raise public awareness of
governance issues
-Communicating statistics, in partnership with the media
-In 2010, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
(PCIJ), conducted Knowledge Sharing Sessions for Journalists
on the MDGs, specifically on MDG 5 (i.e., on MMR with very low
probability of achieving the target by 2015)
-Aimed to promote among the media that meeting the MDGs
is a governance issue
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III. Making Gender Statistics Meaningful on the Ground:
The Philippine Experience
4. Using/citing gender statistics in enacted laws/proposed bills
Particular examples:
Enacted laws,
• Republic Act 9710 - Magna Carta of Women
• Republic Act 9262 – Anti-Violence Against Women and
their Children
• Republic Act 9208 – Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003
Proposed bills,
• The House Committee on Health requested data on poverty
statistics among basic sectors to be used in the position
paper on House Bill 3472 - An Act providing for a
Comprehensive Vaccination and Immunization Fund for
Filipino Infants
• Reproductive Health Bill or Responsible Parenthood
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IV. Data (Coherence) Challenges
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IV. Data (Coherence) Challenges
1. Data gaps – Need for timely, regular, relevant and lower
disaggregated gender statistics
• Lack of sub-national data –e.g., poverty statistics for the basic
sectors are only available at the national and regional levels.
• Need for a national time-use survey.
• Need to improve/institutionalize the data collection on violence
against women, reproductive health and rural women
- “Women’s Safety Module” included for 1st time in the
2008 National Demographic and Health Survey”
- Need for data on ratio of prosecuted VAWC cases over filed
cases and action taken
- Need for sex-disaggregated data on incidence of
reproductive tract infection
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IV. Data (Coherence) Challenges
1. Data gaps – Need for timely, regular, relevant and lower
disaggregated gender statistics
• Need for updated/regular data for MDG monitoring, e.g.
maternal mortality indicators, adolescent birth rate, HIV
prevalence among population, ratio of school attendance of
orphans to non-orphans.
• Undercounting due to sensitivity of gender issues
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IV. Data (Coherence) Challenges
Need for updated/regular data for MDG monitoring
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Source
Latest Data
Remarks
Maternal mortality
indicators
Estimate of
TWG on
Mortality
Statistics
2010
Using interim
methodology of TWG
until data from civil
registration becomes
available.
Adolescent birth rate
NDHS
(conducted
every 5
years)
2008
NDHS data covers 15-24
years old but UN
reference age is 15-19
years old
HIV prevalence among
population
Phil. HIV
Registry
2010
Based on administrative
records
Condom use at last
high-risk sex
NDHS
2008
Available for 2008 only
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IV. Data (Coherence) Challenges
Need for updated/regular data for MDG monitoring
MDG Indicator
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Source
Latest Data
Remarks
Proportion of population
aged 15-24 years with
comprehensive correct
knowledge of HIV/AIDS
NDHS
2008
Available for 2008 only.
Proportion of children
under 5 with fever who
are treated with
appropriate antimalarial drugs
NDHS
2008
Available for 2008 only
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IV. Data (Coherence) Challenges
2. Need to refine methodologies on the measurement of the
contribution of women, estimation of the GDI and CDI
3. Harmonization of data from different sources within the
national statistical system
• Possible duplication/inconsistency of data on violence
against women and children in reports to the Philippine
National Police and Department of Social Welfare and
Development and with the private sector
• Large differences in the earlier studies on hours of
unpaid work with the Pilot Time-Use Survey of the NSO.
Underscores the strong need for the conduct of
national time-used survey
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IV. Data (Coherence) Challenges
4. Need for much improved timeliness of gender statistics
5. Need for planners and data users to better appreciate,
analyze and translate gender statistics into programs,
policy actions and interventions.
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Status of Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPA)
Recommendations
BPA
Recommendations
Status of
Implemen
tation
Some Details
Strategic objective H3. - Generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information for
planning and Evaluation
1.
Ensure that
statistics related to
individuals are
collected,
compiled,
analysed and
presented by sex
and age and
reflect problems,
issues and
questions related
to women and
men in society;
a
a. NSCB Resolution No. 8, Series of 1994 – Enjoining Different
Agencies to Promote Gender Concerns in the Generation of
Statistics - Provides strong data support for the effective
implementation of various laws protecting the rights of women.
b. NSCB Resolution No.5, Series of 2001 – Approval and Adoption of
the Statistical Framework on Gender and Development Indicator
System - Contains the key macroeconomic impact indicators
needed to monitor and assess the state of gender and
development in the country.
c. NSCB Resolution No. 6 - Series of 2001 – Approval and Adoption
of the Statistical Framework and Glossary Related to the
Protection of Women and Children - Directing all concerned
government agencies to adopt the Framework and the Glossary
in the generation and analysis of VAWC statistics.
d. NSCB Resolution No. 12 - Series of 2005 – Approving the
Recommendations of the Interagency Committee on Gender
Statistics - To ensure the continuing efforts in the generation of
gender statistics and institutionalize the implementation of the
Core GAD framework.
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Status of Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPA)
Recommendations
BPA
Recommendations
Status of
Implemen
tation
Remarks
Strategic objective H3. - Generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information for
planning and Evaluation
2. Collect, compile, analyse
and present on a regular
basis data disaggregated
by age, sex, socioeconomic and other
relevant indicators,
including number of
dependants, for utilization in
policy and programme
planning and
implementation and to
reflect problems and
questions related to men
and women in society;
a
a. Maintenance of the Online Interactive Gender
Statistical Database
(http://www.nscb.gov.ph/gender/index.asp )
b. Annual release of Factsheet on Women and Men
c. Triennial release of theStatistical Handbook on
Women and Men (Central Office and all nine Regional
Divisions)
d. Generation of Poverty Statistics among the Basic
Sectors (including women and children)
e. Statistically Speaking web articles
(http://www.nscb.gov.ph/headlines/StatsSpeak/defa
ult.asp)
f. Maintenance of the MDGWatch
(http://www.nscb.gov.ph/stats/mdg/mdg_watch.asp)
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Recommendations
Status of
Implemen
tation
BPA
Recommendations
Remarks
Strategic objective H3. - Generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information for
planning and Evaluation
a
3. Involve centres for women's studies and
research organizations in developing and
testing appropriate indicators and
research methodologies to strengthen
gender analysis, as well as in monitoring
and evaluating the implementation of the
goals of the Platform for Action;
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4. Designate or appoint staff to strengthen
gender-statistics programmes and ensure
coordination, monitoring and linkage to
all fields
ofndstatistical
work,
prepare
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a. UP Center for Women Studies (UPCWS) –
their research project on “Breaking the
Silence, the Realities of Family Violence in
the Philippines and Recommendations for
Change” provided information on 1000
documented cases of violence against
Filipino women and children
b. Young Adult Fertility Survey by the
University of the Philippines Population
Institute
c. Women's Education, Development, and
Productivity, Research and Advocacy
Organization, Inc. [WEDPRO, Inc.] –publish
and disseminate results in research,
studies and engage in training and
education for the advancement of
women
Executive Order No. 348 of 1989,
Approving and Adopting the Philippine
Development Plan for Women for 1989 to
1992 - Mandates theRepublic
creation
of Gender
of the Philippines
and Development
(GAD)
focal points
NATIONAL STATISTICAL
COORDINATION
BOARD
Status of Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPA)
Recommendations
BPA
Recommendations
Status of
Implemen
tation
Remarks
Strategic objective H3. - Generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information for
planning and Evaluation
5. Improve data collection on the full
contribution of women and men to the
economy, including their participation
in the informal sector (s);
INITIAL
EFFORTS
Latest data available is the results of the
2000 Pilot Time-Use survey conducted in
Quezon City and Batangas
INITIAL
EFFORTS
Latest data available is the results of the
2000 Pilot Time-Use survey conducted in
Quezon City and Batangas
6. Develop a more comprehensive
knowledge of all forms of work and
employment by:
i. Improving data collection on the
unremunerated work which is already
included in the United Nations System of
National Accounts, such as in
agriculture, particularly subsistence
agriculture, and other types of nonmarket production activities;
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Status of Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPA)
Recommendations
BPA
Recommendations
Status of
Implemen
tation
Remarks
Strategic objective H3. - Generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information for
planning and Evaluation
6. Develop a more comprehensive
knowledge of all forms of work and
employment by:
ii. Improving measurements that at present
underestimate women's unemployment
and underemployment in the labour
market
iii. Developing methods, in the appropriate
forums, for assessing the value, in
quantitative terms, of unremunerated
work that is outside national accounts,
such as caring for dependants and
preparing food, for possible reflection in
satellite or other official accounts that
may be produced separately from but
are consistent with core national
accounts.
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INITIAL
EFFORTS
No official statistics are available but there
were studies on the Development of a
Methodology for the Estimation of
Women’s Contribution to the Economy,
which expands the SNA production
boundary to include unpaid work. These
studies include the following:
- “Measuring the Contribution of Women to the
Philippine Economy” (1998)
- “Women’s Contribution to the Economy – the
Philippine Experience” (1999)
- “Improving the Way We Measure the Increasing
Contribution of Women in
Nation-Building”
(2010)
Republic
of the Philippines
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Status of Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPA)
Recommendations
Status of
Implemen
tation
BPA
Recommendations
Remarks
Strategic objective H3. - Generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information for
planning and Evaluation
7. Improve concepts and methods of data
collection on the measurement of
poverty among women and men,
including their access to resources
8. Strengthen vital statistical systems and
incorporate gender analysis into
publications and research
9. Give priority to gender differences in
research design and in data collection
and analysis in order to improve data
on morbidity
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NSCB Resolution No. 11, Series of 2007 –
Approving the Methodology for the
Generation of Poverty Statistics Among
the Basic Sectors
NSO releases Annual Vital Statistics
Report and Press releases. Latest report
available is for 2004.
Data on morbidity with sex
disaggregation are available from the
Philippine Health Statistics of the
Department of Health
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Status of Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPA)
Recommendations
Status of
Implemen
tation
BPA
Recommendations
Remarks
Strategic objective H3. - Generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information for
planning and Evaluation
10. Improve data collection on access to
health services including access to
comprehensive sexual and
reproductive health services, maternal
care and family planning, with special
priority for adolescent mothers and for
elder care
11. Develop improved sex-disaggregated
and age-specific data on the victims
and perpetrators of all forms of
violence against women, such as
domestic violence, sexual harassment,
rape, incest and sexual abuse, and
trafficking in women and girls, as well
as on violence by the agents of the
State
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National Demographic and Health
Survey, which is conducted by the
Philippine National Statistics Office every
5 years, obtains detailed information on
fertility levels, fertility preferences, and
use of family planning methods, etc.
Women’s Safety Module, which was
included in the 2008 National
Demographic and Health Survey, probes
into women’s experiences of violence,
particularly on physical violence and
sexual violence.
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Status of Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPA)
Recommendations
Status of
Implemen
tation
BPA
Recommendations
Remarks
Strategic objective H3. - Generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information for planning
and Evaluation
r
12. Improve concepts and methods of data
collection on the participation of women
and men with disabilities, including their
access to resources
13. Ensure the regular production of a statistical
publication on gender that presents and
interprets topical data on women and men
in a form suitable for a wide range of nontechnical users.
14. Ensure that producers and users of statistics
in each country regularly review the
adequacy of the official statistical system
and its coverage of gender issues, and
prepare a plan for needed improvements,
where necessary
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a. Participation and hosting of the 8th Annual
Meeting of the Washington Group on
Disability Statistics
b. No data on their access to resources
a. Annual release of Factsheet on Women
and Men
b. Triennial release of theStatistical
Handbook on Women and Men (Central
Office and all nine Regional Divisions)
a. Participation in the Global Forum on
Gender Statistics (GFGS) and hosting of
the 3rd GFGS
b. NSCB Memorandum Order No. 3, Seies of
2002 – Creation of the Inter-Agency
Committee on Gender Statistics creates an IAC that formulates measures
that will improve the system of collection
and dissemination of sex disaggregated
data at the national and local levels
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Status of Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPA)
Recommendations
Status of
Implemen
tation
BPA
Recommendations
Remarks
Strategic objective H3. - Generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information for planning
and Evaluation
15. Develop and encourage the development
of quantitative and qualitative studies by
research organizations, trade unions,
employers, the private sector and
nongovernmental organizations on the
sharing of power and influence in society,
including the number of women and men in
senior decision-making posit and private
sectors
16. Use more gender-sensitive data in the
formulation of policy and implementation of
programmes and projects.
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National Convention on Statistics, a triennial
convention which aims to cover a wide
range of topics that are deemed relevant
and critical in addressing national and
global concerns. It includes sessions on
Gender Statistics and its issues.
a. NSCB Resolution No. 8, Series of 1994 –
Enjoining Different Agencies to Promote
Gender Concerns in the Generation of
Statistics - Provides strong data support for
the effective implementation of various laws
protecting the rights of women.
b. NSCB Resolution No. 12 - Series of 2005 –
Approving the Recommendations of the
Interagency Committee on Gender Statistics
- To ensure the continuing efforts in the
generation of gender statistics and
institutionalize the implementation of the
Republic of the Philippines
CoreNATIONAL
GAD framework.
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Statistics on Women and Men among ASEAN Countries
Adult Literacy Rate, by Sex: 2002-2004
Country
2002
2003
2004
Women
Men
Women
Men
Women
Men
Brunnei Darussalam
91.5
95.8
91.5
95.8
91.5
95.8
Cambodia
59.3
80.8
60.2
81.1
60.1
80.2
Indonesia
83.7
93.5
86.2
93.5
86.8
94.0
Lao PDR
55.5
77.4
56.6
78.0
74.7
82.6
Malaysia
-
-
81.9
89.3
93.2
95.6
Myanmar
91.8
92.2
91.8
92.6
92.9
93.7
92.7
92.5
94.0
92.5
95.7
94.5
Singapore
90.6
96.9
91.4
97.1
92.0
97.3
Thailand
90.5
94.9
94.6
97.5
97.8
98.1
Vietnam
95.1
92.1
91.5
94.7
95.9
93.0
Philippines
Source: ASEAN Statistical Yearbook 2008
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Statistics on Women and Men among ASEAN Countries
Adult Literacy Rate, 2005-2007
Country
2005
2006
2007
Women
Men
Women
Men
Women
Men
Brunnei Darussalam
91.5
95.8
91.5
95.8
91.5
95.8
Cambodia
71.2
87.8
-
-
67.7
85.8
Indonesia
87.5
94.3
89.4
94.6
88.0
94.9
Myanmar
93.7
94.5
91.4
92.2
-
-
-
-
-
92.6
93.7
93.1
92.7
97.4
93.3
97.5
Thailand
-
-
-
-
92.6
95.9
Vietnam
-
-
-
-
-
-
Philippines
Singapore
96*
Source: ASEAN Statistical Yearbook 2008
Note: * Both sexes
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Statistics on Women and Men among ASEAN Countries
Women Adult Literacy Rate,2002-2004
95
Vietnam
94.0
92.7
Philippines
Thailand
95.7
Myanmar
Singapore
Brunei Darussalam
Indonesia
85
Malaysia
75
Lao DPR
65
Cambodia
55
2002
2003
2004
Source: ASEAN Statistical Yearbook 2008
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Statistics on Women and Men among ASEAN Countries
Net Enrolment Ratio in Primary School, by Sex: 2003 - 2006
2003
Country
2004
2005
2006
Women
Men
Women
Men
Women
Men
Women
Men
Brunei
Darussalam
93.9
93.8
93.1
92.3
90.6
89.6
87.7
87.7
Cambodia
88.6
91.5
90.7
93.1
89.7
93.0
91.0
93.2
Indonesia
92.6
92.5
93.0
93.1
93.3
93.3
93.5
93.8
Lao PDR
81.7
88.2
81.7
86.9
81.0
86.0
-
-
Malaysia
93.3
92.5
93.5
92.6
92.4
91.6
-
-
Myanmar
79.8
79.4
80.5
81.1
81.2
81.4
81.6
82.7
Philippines
89.7
87.8
88.1
86.2
85.4
83.6
-
-
Singapore
93.4
94.0
93.1
93.8
95.4
96.0
94.4
94.9
Thailand
-
106.5
-
106.5
-
104.2
86.0
90.0
Vietnam
-
-
-
-
-
-
88.01
Source: ASEAN Statistical Yearbook 2008
Note: * Both sexes
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Statistics on Women and Men among ASEAN Countries
Net Enrolment Ratio in Primary School Among Women, 2004-2006
Singapore
Indonesia
Malaysia
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
Philippines
Vietnam*
Myanmar
Source: ASEAN Statistical Yearbook 2008
Note: *Both sexes
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Statistics on Women and Men among ASEAN Countries
Life Expectancy at Birth by Sex, 2004-2006
Country
2004
Women
2005
Men
Women
2006
Men
Women
Men
Brunnei
Darussalam
77.5
74.6
77.8
75.2
77.5
75.9
Cambodia
63.4
57.2
64.1
57.9
64.9
58.6
Indonesia
70.7
66.7
71.1
67.1
71.5
67.5
Lao PDR
56.0
54.0
63.0
59.0
65.0
62.3
Malaysia
75.9
71.1
76.2
71.4
76.3
71.5
Myanmar
63.5
57.8
64.0
58.0
64.6
58.1
70.1
64.1
70.1
64.1
71.6
66.1
Singapore
81.3
77.3
81.5
77.7
81.8
78.0
Thailand
75.0
67.9
75.0
67.9
75.1
68.2
Vietnam
72.0
67.0
73.0
69.0
Philippines
71.3*
Source: ASEAN Statistical Yearbook 2008
Note: *Both sexes
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Statistics on Women and Men among ASEAN Countries
Life Expectancy at Birth Among Women, 2004-2006
Singapore
Brunei Darussalam
Malaysia
Thailand
Vietnam
Indonesia
Philippines
Cambodia
Myanmar
Source: ASEAN Statistical Yearbook 2008
Note: *Both sexes
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In terms of adult literacy rate
and net enrolment ratio in
primary schools in recent years
Women/Girls are doing
better than Men/Boys in the
Philippines!
Opposite to the general
situation in other ASEAN
countries!
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Maraming Salamat po!
URL: http://www.nscb.gov.ph
e-mail: info@nscb.gov.ph
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