Gender Statistics at the United States Census Bureau

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Gender Statistics at the United States Census
Bureau

• Manisha Sengupta
• Population Division
• U.S. Census Bureau

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Accomplishments and Work in Progress

• Workshops
• Gender Analysis
• Partnerships
• USAID (Joint workshops, Data needs assessment).
• UNECE (Taskforce on Gender Sensitization,
  Steering Committee, Training for Statisticians,
  Gender Mainstreaming Manual, Gender Training
  prototype).

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Analysis and Evaluation of Gender Statistics

• Inclusion of sex-disaggregated data is not always
  a standard approach in the production, analysis,
  and dissemination of statistical information.?
  Lack of sex-disaggregated data in statistical
  reports
• ? Data sources on gender statistics are available
  but are not utilized to their potential.
• ? Use of gender statistics is often confined to
  specialized fields.
• ? Growing need for sex-disaggregated data for
  program evaluation.

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Purpose of 2-Week Workshop

• how to understand, analyze, and evaluate data
  reported by sex.
• increase the participants awareness of the
  importance of gender issues.
• improve ability to evaluate the quality and
  relevance of sex-disaggregated data.

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What We Do in The 2-Week Workshops

• ? Introduction of the gender approach.
• ? Identification of data sources for gender
  statistics.
• ? Indicators used to evaluate gender issues.
• ? Design principles for reports on gender issues.
  
• ? Improvement of statistical dissemination to
  include sex-disaggregated data.
• ? Creation of a short report on a gender issue.
• ? Increased use of gender statistics.

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USAID- Census Bureau Gender Integration Workshop

• Joint workshop for Centers for Disease Control
  and Prevention (CDC)
• Purpose
• Gender Analysis.
• Gender Integration in USAID-funded Research
  Examples of Policy and Programmatic Change.
• Gender-relevant Survey Information and its Link
  to Program and Policy Planning.

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Assess Gender Data Needs

• Organized by United States Agency for
  International Development (USAID)
• Participants
• Macro Intl.
• World Bank
• Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
• Data Users
• NGOs
• Purpose
• Discuss gender-related indicators from current
  DHS data.
• Recommendations for implementation and questions.

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Illustrative List Gender-related indicators that
are available or can be estimated from current
DHS data
Indicator available from Core DHS Women 15-49 Children Separately by sex Men 15-59
Literacy X X X
Education X X X
Media exposure X NA
Employment X NA X
Cash employment X NA X
Decision making about earnings X NA
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Gender Analysis

• Funded to carry out a project on sex
  disaggregated economic data in Asia-Pacific
  Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies.
• Goals
• conduct a systematic inventory of the
  sex-disaggregated economic data currently
  collected by the APEC economies.
• identify gaps in relevant data sets.
• develop a standard template for reporting
  comparable sex-disaggregated economic data across
  APEC economies in the future.
• produce a report that provides an overview of the
  economic contributions of women and men in APEC
  economies.

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UNECE

• Steering Committee on Gender Statistics.
• UNECE Taskforce on Gender Sensitization Training.
• Gender Mainstreaming Manual.
• Gender Database.
• Gender Training Prototype training for
  trainers.

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Incorporating Gender Analysis into other work
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• Thank you for your interest in the gender
  statistics work done at the U.S. Census Bureau.
• For more information about our work, please
  contact
• Manisha Sengupta
• Population Division
• U.S. Census Bureau
• 301-763-1373
• Or email manisha.sengupta_at_census.gov.