1. Gender statistics in the ESS Issues and challenges
Michel GLAUDE
Director “Social statistics and Information Society”
EUROSTAT
10 December 2007
Global Forum on Gender Statistics

2. The Political Framework
A more than 10 years old concern
The “dual approach”
- Gender mainstreaming
- Specific measures
Many structures for monitoring
European Institute for Gender Equality
Resources : PROGRESS
The Roadmap
10 December 2007
Global Forum on Gender Statistics

3. Road map for equality between women and men 2006-2010
Objectives and Keys actions concerning:
Equal economic independence for women and men
Reconciliation of private and professional life
Equal representation in decision making
Eradication of all forms of gender based violence
Elimination of gender stereotypes
Promotion of gender equality in external and development policies
Improving governance for gender equality
10 December 2007
Global Forum on Gender Statistics

4. Indicators for monitoring progress
A long list of indicators associated to each policy area…
…making the best use of Eurostat main data collections:
- Labour Force Survey for employment, unemployment, working conditions and segregation on the labour market
- EU-SILC for Poverty and child care
- Structure of Earnings Survey for Gender Pay Gap
- Demographic statistics for Healthy Life Years
- UOE data base for educational attainment
- Time Use Survey for share of domestic work…
And specific data bases for Women participation in decision making and in Science and technology
10 December 2007
Global Forum on Gender Statistics

5. Future Challenges (1) Extend data collection on gender statistics for:
- ICT usage
- reconciliation between Work and Family life (2010 LFS ad-hoc module)
- Health (EHIS in 2008)
- Education and Life Long Learning (AES around 2006)
- Crime (development of a victimisation Survey)
Improve Quality and Comparability
- along the lines of the European Statistics Code of Practice
- specifically for the Gender Pay Gap
10 December 2007
Global Forum on Gender Statistics

6. Future Challenges (2)
Develop a more flexible approach to better respond to Community needs: The EHS project witch give the possibility of more “ad-hoc modules”.
Enhance the dissemination of gender statistics (user friendly Websites and attractive publications)
Deepen the analysis of the underlying factors by:
- more econometric studies (for example: adjusted GPG)
- more attitudinal and behavioural questions (fertility, labour supply, reconciliation…)
- disseminating anonymised microdata bases to researchers
10 December 2007
Global Forum on Gender Statistics