Improving Our Gender Statistics What is Gender Statistics

Improving Our Gender Statistics

What is Gender Statistics? 2 Data, indicators, statistics. . . About women/girls and men/boys Sex-disaggregated About rights of women/girls VAW Reproductive health Maternal mortality Informal employment Unpaid work Reconciliation of family and work life . . .

For what purpose? 3 State of. . . Gender equality Women’s empowerment Women’s rights How’s and why’s of gender-based disparities Evidence-based policies towards. . . Gender mainstreaming Gender equality Gender justice Women’s liberation

From purpose to statistics 4 Evidence-based policies towards. . . Gender mainstreaming Gender equality Gender justice Women’s liberation Monitoring Assessing

From purpose to statistics 5 Evidence-based policies towards. . . Gender mainstreaming Gender equality Gender justice Women’s liberation Monitoring Assessing Data, indicators, statistics. . . About women/girls and men/boys Sex-disaggregated About rights of women/girls VAW Reproductive health Maternal mortality Informal employment Unpaid work Reconciliation of family life and work . . .

Total Work

All Human Activities Economic/Production Non-economic SNA- work Learning Non-SNA work Socializing & Community Participation ‘Free’ time Mass Media Personal Care & Maintenance

SNA Work 8 01 - Work in the “formal sector” Work in household unincorporated enterprises 02 - Primary production activities 03 - Non-primary production activities 04 - Construction activities 05 - Providing services for income

Non-SNA Work 9 06 - Providing unpaid domestic services for own final use 07 - Providing unpaid care-giving services to household members 08 - Providing community services and help to other households

Design of Time Use Surveys: Basic Components

11 UN Time-Use Classification (ICATUS) Improve measurement of SNA work Household production of goods for own final use Subsistence agriculture Collecting firewood Fetching water Production of household unincorporated enterprises, including informal sector enterprise Provide a basis for valuation of unpaid non. SNA work

Improving Measurement of Women’s Work Difficulties in identifying or describing certain types of work Informal employment, including employment in the informal sector Lower priority given to measuring certain types of work Unpaid, non-SNA work Limitations of data sources and methods “ 1 -2” surveys Time-use surveys