1. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics Francesca Grum, Chief Social and Housing Statistics Section UNSD

2. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division Outline Emerging issues: measuring asset ownership and entrepreneurship from a gender perspective - EDGE project Overview –Integrating a gender perspective into official statistics –National programmes on gender statistics

3. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division Gender statistics are defined as statistics that adequately reflect differences and inequalities in the situation of women and men in all areas of life ( UN World’s Women 2005). What are gender statistics? Gender statistics = 2 Data are reflecting gender issues; 3 Data are based on concepts and definitions that adequately reflect the diversity of women and men and capture all aspects of their lives; 4 Data collection methods take into account stereotypes and social and cultural factors that may induce gender biases. 1 Data are collected and presented disaggregated by sex; + + +

4. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division Gender Statistics-mainstreaming –More than data disaggregated by sex –Respond to the needs of policy makers, advocates, researchers, the media and the public –Gender dimension is integrated at all stages of data production (planning, data collection, data analysis, data dissemination) and in all statistical fields

5. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division Four-step plan for developing gender statistics 1.Identify gender issues (user-producer cooperation is key) 2.Identify data needed to address those gender issues 3.Assess the availability and quality of existing gender statistics 4.If gap between data needed and existing data  Better exploitation, tabulation and dissemination of existing data; Collection of new data, Development of new gender-sensitive concepts and methods

6. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division Mainstreaming a gender perspective into national statistical system requires: Leadership and political will at all levels Specification of formal requirements of gender statistics in the national statistical legislation Cooperation between users and producers of statistics Collaboration of NSOs with other institutions for developing and improving concepts and methods Training of statisticians Re-focus of activities and position of gender units and gender focal points within the national statistical systems

7. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division Global review of Gender Statistics Programmes in countries

8. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division Global Review - Objectives –Conduct a review of gender statistics in national statistical systems Mandated by 2011 UN Statistical Commission Answers received in 2012 from 126 NSOs from 5 UN regions –Obtain information on how gender perspectives are mainstreamed Identify good practices and challenges in integrating gender into the production and use of statistics

9. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division Global Review: 5 main topics 1.Institutional arrangements 2.Production (including data collection) of gender statistics 3.Addressing users’ needs 4.Assessment of mainstreaming gender into national statistical system 5.Legal framework

10. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division Global Review: 5 main topics 1.Institutional arrangements 2.Production (including data collection) of gender statistics 3.Addressing users’ needs 4.Assessment of mainstreaming gender into national statistical system 5.Legal framework

11. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division 4. Assessment of mainstreaming gender into national statistical system Mainstreaming/integrating a gender perspective into statistics means that gender issues and gender-based biases are taken into account systematically, in the production of all official statistics and at all stages of data production. 75%

12. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division 1. Institutional arrangements Gender Statistics Entities Question 1: Gender statistics entities Type of gender statistics entity % countries by type of gender statistics entity ESCAP (N=24)All countries (N=126) Gender statistics focal point /desk in NSO62.568.2 Gender focal points in different government ministries/agencies50.049.2 Gender statistics working groups, advisory group41.731.7 Gender statistics dedicated office within the NSO37.531.0 Gender statistics section in different government ministries/agencies16.727.8 Gender statistics focal point/officer in different offices within the NSO29.227.0 + - +

13. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division 1. Institutional arrangements Budgets Questions 4 and 6: Budgets for gender statistics ESCAP All % with a dedicated gender statistics budget8.3 12.7 % with ad-hoc funds but no dedicated budget54.2 48.4 % without dedicated budget or ad-hoc funds37.5 38.9

14. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division 2. Production of Gender Statistics

15. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division Mixed progress in gender statistics Global recognition of the importance of Gender Statistics as shown by the existence of dedicated entities/focal points Some areas are well-covered Increased availability of statistics and gender statistics mainly due to improved dissemination of sex-disaggregated statistics; Yet,

16. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division  Quality gender statistics are still lacking in many countries: –Data scarcity in areas such as poverty; time use; violence against women; environment Data not collected in some countries Data already collected not adequately disseminated Data disseminated not disaggregated enough to allow the identification of population groups where gender differences are more pronounced Mixed progress in gender statistics

17. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division EDGE project – Evidence and Data for Gender Equality

18. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division EDGE Project  A 3-year initiative (UNSD and UN Women) Overall objective:  Improving the integration of gender issues into the regular production of official statistics for better evidence-based policies Specific objectives:  Compiling at the international level selected indicators: Having comparable gender indicators on health, education and employment  Undertake methodological work “emerging issues”: Developing methods/guidelines to collect entrepreneurship and assets data, and piloting them in selected countries

19. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division EDGE Results Results of pilot testing in selected countries Health Education Employment 1 International platform for compiling and disseminating data and metadata on health, education and employment; 2 Methodological report on standards for collection of comparable gender indicators related to entrepreneurship and asset ownership; 3

20. International Seminar on Gender Statistics, 12 – 14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea United Nations Statistics Division