Need for gender statistics

(i) Supporting gender statistics units.

Sex disaggregated statistics

(c) Developing and improving concepts and methods in gender statistics is essential for the improvement of gender statistics both in quality and quantity.

National statistical offices could benefit from the establishment and retention of gender statistics units.

The actions are strengthening national statistical capacity, gender mainstreaming in national statistical systems and development of appropriate concepts and methods for collecting and analysing gender statistics

Actions and strategies to improve gender statistics

The Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs has specialized expertise in the following areas demographic statistics, national accounts, international trade statistics, social gender statistics, industry statistics, energy statistics, environment statistics and statistical classifications.

(b) Lack of gender mainstreaming in national statistical systems

This is done by assessing national statistical capacity to report gender statistics to the international statistical system.

Status of reporting of specific gender statistics

Factors contributing to the paucity of gender statistics

Statistical data gender and economy component

Relevant decisions of other functional commissions are reported to the Statistical Commission under the various substantive items related to demographic statistics, environment statistics, social and gender statistics.

The Division also issued a Handbook for Producing National Statistical Reports on Women and Men,3 an operational guide for national statistical offices and gender programmes in the compilation of gender statistics and their dissemination in a non technical format.

The Gender Equality Act provides that an employer has to collect gender based statistical data concerning employment.

Note In the institutes for statistics, salaries are not recorded according to gender

Monitoring and reporting and sex disaggregated statistics

A number of countries prepared statistical publications and training manuals on gender statistics.

(c) Inadequate concepts and methods used in collecting and, to some extent, analysing gender statistics.

Ethnic composition of population by sex, 2000

Descriptive statistics on households (composition, gender of householder etc.)

(d) Providing advisory services on gender statistical needs assessment and gender characteristics of data in national and regional statistical databases.

Sex ratio by province, 1990 and 2000

Population percentage distribution of religion by sex, 2000

Gender statistics and sex disaggregated data should be routinely collected for all sectors and all levels of employment.

(ii) Fostering dialogue between producers and users of gender statistics.

statistical deviations esp. for initially low collision probabilities.

Official statistics have started to take notice of the casual job market, in accordance with gender indicators.

ECE provides a forum where gender statistics experts from Member States have discussed selected topics, such as the introduction of gender based data into the work of national statistical offices and the measurement of gender based attitudes.

Household headship by sex, residence, 2000

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(a) Convening two regional workshops on methodology for data decomposition on a gender basis one training workshop on gender identities in integrated household survey designs and survey administration capabilities one workshop on gender aware statistical operations, gender statistical needs assessment and gender characteristics of data in national and regional statistical databases

In addition, the Statistics Division has promoted methodological statistical developments that facilitate collection of data based on gender sensitive concepts and methods.

Gender centres meet regularly with statistics institutes representatives, pointing at a need for keeping certain statistics and their classification by gender (e.g. statistics institutes keep statistics on numbers of criminal verdicts or on numbers of managers of education, health care and other institutions, but the results are not classified by gender).

Ethiopia produced sex disaggregated statistics and indicators at all levels of the education system.

There is no statistics kept according to gender in the Trade Unions.

Broad ethnic groups by sex and residence, 2000

The statistics concerning customers of credit institutions by gender are not available.

As for secondment, no gender statistics are available, but it can be said that the secondment mechanisms indicate no gender based distinction.

Current Level Statistics

it does not disaggregated by gender statistical data and information which are collected, recorded and analyzed

The most important subjective indicator of awareness building is the Gender Barometer qualitative study, applied biannually, in cooperation with the B H Statistics Agency and Entity Statistics institutes.

168. Adoption of an agreement between the Department for the Advancement of Women and the National Statistical Office to review the instruments and programmes of the National System of Statistics from the standpoint of gender, so as to ensure that information is broken down by sex and includes non traditional indicators of key importance for analysis of women apos s issues.

Since that time, the issues of sex disaggregated statistics and gender indicators have been comprehensively and ably addressed by the Statistics Division, all five of the regional economic commissions and a number of other United Nations entities.