María Nieves Rico Women and Development Unit, ECLAC GENDER STATISTICS AND INDICATORS For public policy-making In Latin America and the Caribbean GLOBAL FORUM ON GENDER STATISTICS Rome, ISTAT, December 2007 UNFPA Session “Producing gender statistics through population censuses: Perspectives from the regional commissions”

ECLAC. Production of gender statistics and indicators Women and Development Unit United Nations system Regional commissions Governments ECLAC Divisions COORDINATIONCOORDINATION

Regional project on the use of gender indicators for public policy-making (2000 to present) (UNFPA, UNIFEM, …). Design and implementation of an integrated, comparative system of gender indicators and statistics (32 country profiles). Processing of household surveys for 18 countries ( and 2004/2005). Annual updates and dissemination via ECLAC publications, its Web portal [ ] and CEPALSTATwww.eclac.cl/mujer Inter-agency coordination, preparation and distribution of a technical assistance manual on the production and use of gender indicators.

Objectives of the system of indicators To produce the information needed to increase the visibility of women’s situation and the inequality existing between men and women To produce the information needed to increase the visibility of women’s situation and the inequality existing between men and women To disseminate comparable information To disseminate comparable information To promote the use of new indicators (poverty, violence, labour) To promote the use of new indicators (poverty, violence, labour) To strengthen new information sources (time-use surveys) To strengthen new information sources (time-use surveys) To provide technical inputs for policy decisions To provide technical inputs for policy decisions To contribute to user-producer links To contribute to user-producer links To fulfil mandates on the production and dissemination of gender statistics: To fulfil mandates on the production and dissemination of gender statistics:  Regional Programme of Action for the Women of Latin America and the Caribbean (Mar del Plata, 1994)  Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995)

Information sources used by the ECLAC system Countries: Production of official statistics Population and housing censuses Agricultural censuses Household surveys Vital statistics Violence surveys Time-use surveys Administrative records International agencies UNESCO ILO WHO/PAHO FAO UNICEF ECLAC – CELADE

Censuses as an information source Areas covered: Education, fertility, mortality, employment, health and environmental conditions…. Areas covered: Education, fertility, mortality, employment, health and environmental conditions…. Indicators and tabulations for a more in-depth exploration: internal and international migration, membership in racial and ethnic groups, lifecycle (girls and young women, older adults), activity Indicators and tabulations for a more in-depth exploration: internal and international migration, membership in racial and ethnic groups, lifecycle (girls and young women, older adults), activity ECLAC activities: ECLAC activities: Caribbean: 1990 (11 countries) and 2000 (6 countries) census round Latin America: 2000 (6 countries) census round

Millennium Development Objectives 11 country studies (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Paraguay, Venezuela (BR) and Uruguay) ( ) 11 country studies (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Paraguay, Venezuela (BR) and Uruguay) ( ) Regional overview of the Millennium challenges in the sphere of gender equality (2007) Regional overview of the Millennium challenges in the sphere of gender equality (2007) A 2006 report on the Millennium Development Goals that looks at equality beween the sexes and the autonomy of women in Latin America and the Caribbean A 2006 report on the Millennium Development Goals that looks at equality beween the sexes and the autonomy of women in Latin America and the Caribbean Project on strengthening the capacity of Latin American and Caribbean countries to fulfil the MDGs Project on strengthening the capacity of Latin American and Caribbean countries to fulfil the MDGs Project on interregional cooperation to strenghten social inclusion, gender equality and health promotion within the MDG framework Project on interregional cooperation to strenghten social inclusion, gender equality and health promotion within the MDG framework

ECLAC – Governments of the region National statistical institutes Statistical Conference of the Americas ECLAC Women’s offices - Regional Conference on Women Technical cooperation Seminars and workshops Inter-agaency agreements National gender statistics systems Statistical Conference of the Americas working group on gender

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