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OECD
World
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Statistics,
Statistics,Knowledge
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Policy
Palermo,
10-13
November
2004
Palermo,
10-13
November
2004
OECD World Forum “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy”, Palermo, 10-13 November 2004
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Gender Statistics and the work
of the National Development
Plan
Gender Equality Unit, Ireland
Mark Manto, Statistician,
NDP Gender Equality Unit,
Department of Justice, Equality & Law
Reform
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National Development Plan 2000 - 2006
Plan for regional development in Ireland
Worth €51 billion
93% funded by the Irish Government,
7% by EU Structural Funds
• Consists of 130 measures (e.g. roads,
micro-enterprise, regional public
transport, sports & leisure facilities)
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• 6 Operational Programmes
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Economic and Social Infrastructure
Employment and Human Resources
Productive Investment
Border, Midland and Western Region
Southern and Eastern Region
Peace
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• NDP Gender Equality Unit
• Set up in 2000 to support policy makers in
gender mainstreaming NDP measures,
provides
– Advice
– Training
– Monitoring
– Research
• Co-funded by ESF
• Current staff of 5 - Head of Unit (vacanct),
statistician, gender equality expert, two
administrative staff
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• Gender mainstreaming?
• Gender mainstreaming (GMS) is a
strategy adopted to promote equal
opportunities between women and men in
the Structural Funds – and across almost
all Measures of the NDP
• It means putting gender equality into
mainstream policies
• Traditionally legislation allowed women &
men equal access to different
opportunities.
• So why bother with gender
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• Gender statistics and the work of the Unit
• Performance indicators in the NDP –
disaggregated
• In 2002, Unit developed and launched its
own website www.ndpgenderequality.ie
• All statistical information, reports and
research are available to download free from
this website
• Given our policy maker target audience,
website is a very efficient and effective
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• Three databanks of gender
disaggregated statistics complied in
2000, 2002, 2004
• From all known sources Government
Departments, State Agencies, NGO’s,
Universities, etc.
• Statistics provided relevant to
particular measures, topics and
geographic regions
• 2004 data presented can be
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• When initial databank was compiled in 2000,
report produced outlining major data gaps
relevant to NDP areas
• Housing – population increase, home ownership
• Transport – labour force, effect of ‘Celtic Tiger’
• Enterprise – entrepreneurship, start-ups
• Training in employment – lifelong learning
• Flexible working arrangements – family friendly
policies
• Job seniority and roles – increase in female
participation
• Progress over time – longitudinal studies
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• Housing and transport
• Research surveys carried out in 2001
and 2004
• Report produced ‘Women and Men in
Ireland: their transport use and their
housing tenure’
• Transport: difference between women
and men car ownership rates narrowing
• Housing: difference in level (%) and
amount (€) of rent or mortgage paid by
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• Enterprises and Entrepreneurship
• Research survey carried out in 2003
• Report produced ‘Women and Men in Ireland
as Entrepreneurs and as Business
Managers’
• More male entrepreneurs exported than
female entrepreneurs
• Less female entrepreneurs used IT for
business transactions than male
entrepreneurs
• More male than female entrepreneurs had
previously set up a business
• Low numbers in contact with State agencies
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• Training in employment and Life long learning
• Flexible working arrangements
• Job seniority levels and roles
• The first two covered by the Central Statistics
Office (CSO) through special modules of the
labour force survey – Quarterly National
Household Survey
• Job roles to be covered through the CSO’s new
National Employment Survey, fieldwork and data
collection for which was carried out last year
• Progress over time – EU SILC ? (replacing
ECHP survey)
• Time use and unpaid work – possible inclusion
in Census 2006
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• Previous slide highlights importance of dialogue
between users & producers of statistics and
between producers
• Briefing sessions were held for Central
Statistics Office staff (with CSO staff
involvement) focused on data issues, gaps,
policy concerns, data use – within the context of
an increase in evidence based policy making
• The last point very important – that those
producing the statistics know that what they
produce is valued and the uses data is put to –
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• Indicators
• Beijing Platform for Action ‘areas of concern’
• Production of listing of potential indicators in
Ireland
• Data lacking for majority of this long listing
• Highlights need for an agreed, relevant to
policy concerns and realistic set of indicators
for which reliable, timely data exists
• Less is more (e.g. Laeken indicators - Primary,
Secondary, Tertiary indicators gender
disaggregated)
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• Other areas of work
• Agriculture
• Department of Agriculture and Food report
‘Role of Women in Agriculture’ in 2000
• Recommendations over a wide range of
areas of farm life and supports
• Unit undertook to progress two
recommendations
• ‘Assessment of main gaps in existing
information on women in agriculture’ Spring
2003 – identified areas/gaps of interest for
possible future work
• One area identified was an attitudinal
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• ‘Women and Men on Farms in Ireland – their
activities, attitudes and experiences’
Research survey carried out in 2003/2004
• More women than men had paid
employment off the farm – most full-time
employment
• Inheritance/succession by a son ‘keeping
the name on the land’ was important
consideration for women and men
• Men ascribed a higher level of importance to
the work of women on the farm than the
women placed on their own work!
• Responses of women and men often very
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• Regional requirement for data in
Ireland at NUTS2, NUTS3 and
NUTS4 levels
• ‘Geographic Gender Equality –
Women and Men across the
regions of Ireland’
• Analysis of existing Census and
other data by region and
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• Information resources not just for
the specialist topics or policy
makers
• Taking the example of Statistics
Sweden, produced:
• ‘Women and Men in Ireland:
Facts and Figures’
• Small pocket sized booklet
• EU Presidency
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• Work also included further research on
indicators listing relevant to the ‘Areas of
concern’ identified in the Beijing Platform for
Action for NSW
• Cross Government Department work on the
‘Steering Group for Social and Equality
Statistics’ identifying data sources and data
needs across Government
• Assistance to organisations with gender
disaggregated data holdings
• Assist in developing gender disaggregated
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• So we provide…baseline & context
statistics
• Factsheets and information resources on
a range of specific measures & topics, e.g.
• Relevance sheets for each NDP measure
• ‘How to…..’ sheets
• Used in conjunction with dialogue and
persuasion
• Project selection, Implementation,
Evaluation
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