Training Manual on gender sensitize National Statistical Systems HOW

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Training Manual on gender sensitize National
Statistical SystemsHOW
UNECE Task Force on Gender Sensitization training
for Statisticians
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Purpose

• To review selected areas in official statistics
  and describe how they can be made more gender
  sensitive
• Production of statistics
• Institutional aspects
• Dissemination
• Use of gender statistics

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Production of Statistics

• Mainstreaming gender into the production of all
  statistics
• All data need to be sex-disaggregated
• Ex. Business registers
• Make statistical methodology more gender
  sensitive

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Production of Statistics

• Make statistical methodology more gender
  sensitive walking statisticians into the most
  common sources of bias
• Process involvement of stakeholders
• Questionnaire design
• Training of enumerators
• Ethical issues
• Definitions, classifications
• Mode of data collection

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Production of Statistics

• In depth review of selected areas concrete
  examples on how the production of statistics can
  be changed
• Labour statistics
• Labour Force Surveys (Reference to Eursotat
  module)
• Informal employment
• Agriculture
• Gender Pay Gap
• Entrepreneurship/business statistics
• Violence Against Women
• Decision Making
• Census (Reference to UNFPA work)
• Disaggregation

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Making it happen Institutional arrangements

• Who has the power to change statistical products
• Conditions needed to make NSS more gender
  sensitive
• Tools
• Legal framework
• Resources needed
• Different organizational structures for gender
  statistics

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Dissemination

• Mainstreaming sex into the dissemination of
  statistics even when other classifications are
  used
• Description of Women and Men publication
  (reference to existing Manuals)
• Accessibility of gender statistics
• Presentation of gender statistics (Reference to
  existing Manuals)
• How to make data from different sources together?
• How to better present gender differences?

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Use of Gender Statistics

• Marketing
• Examples of how to outreach users
• Training programmes on how to use gender
  statistics for policy making

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Your feedback is very important

• Content of the Manual in particular the areas
  chosen for in-depth analysis (Labour statistics,
  VAW, decision making, census, disaggregation)
• Structure
• Existing material to understand where we need to
  focus, no need to present something that has been
  already presented in other training tools