Minimum Set of Gender Indicators

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Minimum Set of Gender Indicators

• Workshop on Gender Statistics and Human Rights
  Statistics
• Nadi, Fiji
• 4-8 August 2014
• Charlotte French, Statistician
• Demographic and Social Statistics Branch - UNSD

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Background

• Internationally-agreed indicators to monitor
  gender equality and womens empowerment
• Gender indicators (52)
• Gender indicators related to national norms (11)
• Five domains
• Economic structures, participation in productive
  activities and access to resources
• Education
• Health and related services
• Human rights of women and the girl child
• Public life and decision-making

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Development of the Minimum Set of Gender
Indicators Data Platform
Indicators approved by the UN Statistical
Commission
1st IAEG-GS meeting developing a common
dissemination platform specifically geared to
increase accessibility and promote the use of
gender statistics and indicators at the global
and national levels
2006
2007-2011
2012
2013
2014
Online data platform available
Indicators agreed by the IAEG-GS
Developing indicators through the Advisory Group
on Global Gender Statistics and Indicators
Database
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Organization of indicators in Tiers
? International data compilation
? Promoting capacity building activities
? Methodological developments e.g., EDGE project
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Gender Data Platform

• Improve access to data and methods
• Contribution from 14 partner agencies
• Data for all Tier I indicators (35)

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Data availability Tier I indicators
Average number of countries with data, by area
Indicators, by number of data points, 1990-2012
144
Average countries data are available for
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Features of the Gender data platform

• Country and indicator dashboard

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Features of the Gender data platform
Searching by country
By indicators in Tiers, allowing for future
development
By indicators from partner agencies
Evidence and Data for Gender Equality
Looking for data for EDGE indicators?
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Features of the Gender data platform

• Downloadable data in accessible format
• Accompanying metadata

• Data availability report

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http//genderstats.org