1. Selected gender indicators: Comparing Switzerland with other countries
Swiss Federal Statistical Office
Katja Branger
Socio-economic Analysis Section (LEB)
Presentation at the
UNECE Work Session on Gender Statistics
Geneva, September 2006

2. 2 main topics:
the situation of women in respect to employment and salary: comparing Switzerland with other countries
methodological and analytical difficulties in respect to the UNECE Database and international comparisons

3. 2 main topics:
the situation of women in respect to employment and salary: comparing Switzerland with other countries
methodological and analytical difficulties in respect to the UNECE Database and international comparisons

4. Criteria for the selection of the indicators for the comparison:
the indicator's relevance in respect of gender equality issues
availability of the indicator for Switzerland
the availability of current data, primarily for Switzerland and secondly for the other countries

5. economic activity rate part-time work unemployment rate gender pay gap
Work and the Economy: Selected indicators
economic activity rate
part-time work
unemployment rate
gender pay gap

6. ♀ ♂ CHE 59.1% CHE 76.0% AUT 50.8% AUT 67.0% FRA 50.1% GER 65.4%
ITA 38.3% ♂
CHE 76.0%
AUT 67.0%
GER 65.4%
FRA 62.6%
ITA 61.6%

8. ♀
NLD 74.7%
CHE 58.8% ♂
NLD 22.3%
CHE 11.8%

10. SER 2.1%
CHE 19.7%
ARM 57.9%

11. 2 main topics:
the situation of women in respect to employment and salary: comparing Switzerland with other countries
methodological and analytical difficulties in respect to the UNECE Database and international comparisons

12. Conclusions about the use of the UNECE Database
(1)
current data must be available and updated regularly
problem of the frequency and mode of data supply by the countries has to be resolved
 sufficient resources must be available at the UNECE for database maintenance

13. Conclusions about the use of the UNECE Database
(2)
validation and interpretation of data
sources, definitions, country footnotes
√ done
 brief description for every country of the situation concerning a specific domain in the database

14. Conclusions about the use of the UNECE Database
(3)
representation of the indicators for country comparisons
what types of charts?
only tables?
include country footnotes?

15. Thank you for the great work in implementing it
Most important
UNECE Gender Statistics Database is a very useful tool not only for statisticians
Thank you for the great work in implementing it
As gender focal point I will intensify my commitment to provide data of good quality