Integrating a gender perspective into statistics
By: Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division
Series: Studies in methods -- series F, no. 111; Studies in methods -- no. 111.
Publisher: United Nations; United Nations Publications
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9789211615715
Subjects: Gender mainstreaming; Women; Statistics; Sex role
Notes: "United Nations publication sales no. E.13.XVII.9"--Title page verso.

"Gender equality has been increasingly recognized as being essential to the process of sustainable development and the formulation of effective national development policies and programmes. The demand for gender statistics has increased over the years owing to international conventions and gender mainstreaming in policies. However, while many national statistical offices have attempted to establish and succeeded in establishing sound gender statistics programmes, additional guidance is needed to improve the availability of data and to ensure a proper mainstreaming of gender issues in all areas of official statistics. These concerns have been reflected in the statistical work of the United Nations. The United Nations Statistics Division has led many of the technical developments in the field of gender statistics since the early 1980s. Over the years, the Division has actively supported gender statistics programmes around the world, providing leadership particularly in the production of technical materials and the compilation of statistics. In an effort to revamp gender statistics programmes around the world, the Division, in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund and the World Bank, established the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics (IAEG-GS) in 2006 and has subsequently convened various editions of the Global Forum on Gender Statistics to help to chart the path for further work in this field. The present manual was prepared following the recommendation of IAEG-GS in 2009 and the request made by the United Nations Statistical Commission at its forty-second session in 2011 (see E/2011/24-E/CN.3/2011/37)."--Preface, page iii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Users, uses and production of gender statistics : an overview. What are gender statistics?; title: Users and uses of gender statistics; title: Production of gender statistics; title: A guide to the present manual; title: II. Bringing gender issues into statistics. Education; title: Work; title: Poverty; title: Environment; title: Food security; title: Power and decision-making; title: Population, households and families; title: Health; title: Migration, displaced persons and refugees; title: Violence against women; title: III. Integrating a gender perspective into data collection. Population and housing census; title: Agricultural censuses and surveys; title: Labour force surveys; title: Time-use surveys; title: Surveys on violence against women; title: IV. Analysis and presentation of gender statistics. Descriptive analysis of data; title: Types of data involved in gender statistics : qualitative and quantitative variables; title: Presentation of gender statistics in graphs; title: Presentation of gender statistics in tables.