National statistical capacity to produce gender statistics United

National statistical capacity to produce gender statistics United Nations Statistics Division Francesca Coullare, coullare@un. org 1

Overview • National statistical capacity to produce statistics by sex assessed through 2 lenses: 1. Countries’ capacity to monitor Goal 3 in the MDGs 2. Country regular reporting of sex-disaggregated data to UNSD (recently presented in The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics) • UNSD programme to strengthen gender statistics in developing countries 2 UNSD

Countries’ capacity to monitor MDG 3 The Millennium Development Goals Indicators Website/Database mdgs. un. org 3 UNSD

Countries’ capacity to monitor MDG 3: Promote gender equality and empower women Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015 9. Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education 10. Ratio of literate women to men, 15 -24 years old 11. Share of women in wage employment in the nonagricultural sector 12. Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament MDGs global monitoring under the responsibility of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDGs Indicators (IAEG), coordinated by UNSD. -sub-group on gender to address the following major concerns: -identify better indicators for women participation in economy -include additional gender dimensions/concerns (mainly violence against women and reproductive health) UNSD 4

Countries’ capacity to monitor MDG 3 Data availability for the global/regional monitoring Percentage of countries with at least 2 data points since 1990 (excluding modeled data), by indicator and MDG region Ind. 9 UNSD Ind. 10 Ind. 11 Ind. 12 Youth Literacy Employme nt Parliament Primar y Seconda ry Tertiary Developing Regions 86 85 68 - 55 81 Northern Africa 83 83 50 - 67 67 Sub-Saharan Africa 94 92 82 - 28 96 Latin America & Caribbean 83 83 57 - 76 72 Eastern Asia 83 83 83 - 83 67 Southern Asia 89 89 78 - 67 100 South-eastern Asia 82 82 82 - 73 82 Western Asia 100 93 - 80 87 Oceania 65 60 30 - 25 60 5

Proposed revised indicator 11 1. Share in total employment 2. Agricultural employment 2. 1 Own. Only account workers, employers work in progress…. not included in 2. 2 Contributing family workers (informal) MDG indicators framework because of lack 2. 3 Employees (formal and informal) of data! 3. Non-agricultural employment 3. 1 Own account workers, employers (formal and informal) 3. 2 Contributing family workers (informal) 3. 3 Employees (excl. domestic employees) (formal and informal) 3. 4 Domestic employees (formal and informal) (all disaggregated by sex) 6 UNSD

Countries’ capacity to produce sex-disaggregated data Extracts from The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics 7 UNSD

Countries’ capacity to produce sex-disaggregated data The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics – Focuses on national reporting of sex disaggregated statistics on: • • • demographics, health, education, work, violence against women, • poverty, • human rights and decision-making. Number of non-reporting countries (out of 204) Less reported topics over 1995 -2003 period 56 Population by sex and age 66 School enrollment 81 Economic activity by sex and age 108 Unemployment by sex and age 152 Wages by major industry group and sex 8 UNSD

ex. (a) Women and the labour force Their Contribution Still Not Fully Captured By Official Statistics Earning power • Closing the gap between women’s and men’s pay continues to be a major challenge in most parts of the world. • Less than 25% of countries reported data on wages by major industry groups disagreggated by sex. 9 UNSD

ex. (b) Bringing Violence Against Women to Public Scrutiny: Very limited data available • Since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action in 1995, major improvements in developing methodologies and procedures for collecting data on violence against women • But still there is currently only scarce official international data collection on this issue. – WHO’s Multi-Country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence – UNICEF - MICS 10 UNSD

UN Global Programme on Gender Statistics • Duration: 3 years (2007 -2009) • Location/Executing agency : United Nations Statistics Division, New York • Co-operating Agencies: In collaboration with the Gender Group and Data Group of the World Bank, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) • National Counterpart Institutions: National Statistical Offices and gender statistics focal points • Collaborating Regional Institutions: United Nations regional commissions (ECA, ECE, ECLAC, ESCAP, and ESCWA) and other regional organizations (such as CARICOM, ECOWAS, SPC) 11 UNSD

UN Global Programme on Gender Statistics • Objective: to enhance the capacity of countries to collect, analyse and disseminate quality gender. Official statistics; Launch • Achieved through: 2007 Global Forum on Gender Statistics – Inter-agency Rome, expert 10 -13 group; December 2007 – web-based Bulletin Board (portal); by ISTAT and co-organized and co-sponsored – Hosted database; by UNSD, ISTAT, UNFPA – training materials and workshops; – training of trainers; – ad-hoc technical advisory services; – network of resource persons; 12 UNSD