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Group of Experts on Gender Statistics MEASUREMEN
T OF GENDER DISPARITIES WITHIN OTHER
SUBPOPULATION GROUPS
Klelija Balta, UNDP Bratislava Regional
Center Geneva, 7th October 2008
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Presentations we have seen/heard

• Multimedia presentation on Gender and
  Subpopulation groups WBI/UNECE Statistical
  Division
• Measurement Issues and Multiple discrimination
  Gender and Ethnicity, Ko Oudhof, Statistics
  netherlands
• Moving on up? Statistics on gender and ethnic
  group in the Equal Opportunities Commissions
  investigation into ethnic minority women and
  work, Karen Hurrell, Equality and Human Rights
  Commission, UK

3
Measurement issues and multiple discrimination
gender and ethnicity

• inequality and how it leads to discrimination
• different types of discrimination as multiply
  discrimination, compound discrimination and
  intersectional discrimination
• general strategy to measure inequality among
  sub-population groups, also its discriminatory
  variant

4
Statistics on gender and ethnic group in the
Equal Opportunities Commissions investigation on
ethnic minority women and work/employment

• to develop existing and new sources of statistics
  in order to extend the evidence available
• challenges facing statistics disaggregated by sex
  and ethnic groups
• Solutions
• Census (but every 10 years) LFS
• Small surveys they do provide indicative results
  which can be used effectively to draw attention
  to specific issues
• Equal pay Secondary analyses of the Labour force
  Survey
• Important the final Report also proposed the
  set of indicators

5
Video Gender and Population Sub Groups

• Ethnic, language, religious and migration
• and gender and these identified groups
• Gender analyses of ethnic or cultural groups is
  an essential element of socio economic analyses
• National statistical offices do not include
  sensitive questions
• Population sub groups is very small proportion
  problem with sample surveys

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Video Gender and Population Sub Groups

• Population census better tool but only every 10
  years and does not cover socio economic data
  in great detail
• Administrative data valuable source of
  information, but there is no ethno cultural
  variables recorded
• Ethnic and cultural data - Create trust the
  issue is HOW?

7
All three presentations

• how important it is to collect gender and ethnic
  disaggregated data, what are the issues and
  challenges related to data collection and
  analysis, how we can use it.
• Demand for data and indicators disaggregated by
  sex and ethnicity must come from government

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What is next?

• Clear responsibility distribution need
• to be established between
• Statistical office (data production)
• ministries (application of indicators in
  reports/analysis),
• Local level institutions (recording information)
  and
• Communities (trust into institutions/not afraid
  to state ethnicity).

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What needs to be done?

• Census rounds (ethnicity questions should be
  carefully discussed with statistical offices
  awareness raising in communities to decreased
  levels of fear)?
• Governments needs to be trained on how to use
  disaggregated data for monitoring welfare
  situation of sub-population groups?
• Administrative structures need to be reviewed and
  responsibilities discussed?
• Budgets for sample surveys with extra boosters
  need to be created?