Who benefits more? Benefit of the government by gender Saskia Keuzenkamp Gender statistics workshop October 2008 Geneva

Gender Budget Analysis (GBA): why? Policies in gender neutral terms Impact on women and men can differ Gender budgeting as policy tool GBA: gender impact assessment

Gender Budget Analysis: How? No single approach Example of a tool developed in the Netherlands, based on a tradition of monitoring benefit by households: Public service, personal benefit (Evert Pommer) Focus on income transfers associated with consumption of goods and services Not all groups benefit equally: redistribution of income

Seven sectors (expenditure 2003)

Allocating the benefit Questions: How should children be treated? How should goods / services consumed at household level be treated? Data: several surveys

Benefit from the government m/f (2003)

Women benefit more Women are more dependent on government provisions. Main reasons: High use by single parents (more women) High use by older single people (more women) Gender roles

Health calculated by use

Concluding remarks Regular policies have gendered impact Importance of economic statistics: what can be expected of changes of policies? Necessity of individual data