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Gender Statistics and the work of the National
Development Plan Gender Equality Unit, Ireland

• Mark Manto, Statistician,
• NDP Gender Equality Unit,
• Department of Justice, Equality Law Reform

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• National Development Plan 2000 - 2006
• Plan for regional development in Ireland
• Worth 51 billion
• 93 funded by the Irish Government, 7 by EU
  Structural Funds
• Consists of 130 measures (e.g. roads,
  micro-enterprise, regional public transport,
  sports leisure facilities)

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• 6 Operational Programmes
• Economic and Social Infrastructure
• Employment and Human Resources
• Productive Investment
• Border, Midland and Western Region
• Southern and Eastern Region
• Peace

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• NDP Gender Equality Unit
• Set up in 2000 to support policy makers in gender
  mainstreaming NDP measures, provides
• Advice
• Training
• Monitoring
• Research
• Co-funded by ESF
• Current staff of 5 - Head of Unit (vacanct),
  statistician, gender equality expert, two
  administrative staff

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• Gender mainstreaming?
• Gender mainstreaming (GMS) is a strategy adopted
  to promote equal opportunities between women and
  men in the Structural Funds and across almost
  all Measures of the NDP
• It means putting gender equality into mainstream
  policies
• Traditionally legislation allowed women men
  equal access to different opportunities.
• So why bother with gender mainstreaming?

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• Gender statistics and the work of the Unit
• Performance indicators in the NDP disaggregated
• In 2002, Unit developed and launched its own
  website www.ndpgenderequality.ie
• All statistical information, reports and research
  are available to download free from this website
• Given our policy maker target audience, website
  is a very efficient and effective means of
  communication and dissemination of material

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• Three databanks of gender disaggregated
  statistics complied in 2000, 2002, 2004
• From all known sources Government Departments,
  State Agencies, NGOs, Universities, etc.
• Statistics provided relevant to particular
  measures, topics and geographic regions
• 2004 data presented can be downloaded in graph
  and spreadsheet formats

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• When initial databank was compiled in 2000,
  report produced outlining major data gaps
  relevant to NDP areas
• Housing population increase, home ownership
• Transport labour force, effect of Celtic
  Tiger
• Enterprise entrepreneurship, start-ups
• Training in employment lifelong learning
• Flexible working arrangements family friendly
  policies
• Job seniority and roles increase in female
  participation
• Progress over time longitudinal studies
• Time use unpaid work

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• Housing and transport
• Research surveys carried out in 2001 and 2004
• Report produced Women and Men in Ireland their
  transport use and their housing tenure
• Transport difference between women and men car
  ownership rates narrowing
• Housing difference in level () and amount ()
  of rent or mortgage paid by women and men also
  appears to be decreasing over time

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• Enterprises and Entrepreneurship
• Research survey carried out in 2003
• Report produced Women and Men in Ireland as
  Entrepreneurs and as Business Managers
• More male entrepreneurs exported than female
  entrepreneurs
• Less female entrepreneurs used IT for business
  transactions than male entrepreneurs
• More male than female entrepreneurs had
  previously set up a business
• Low numbers in contact with State agencies or in
  training

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• Training in employment and Life long learning
• Flexible working arrangements
• Job seniority levels and roles
• The first two covered by the Central Statistics
  Office (CSO) through special modules of the
  labour force survey Quarterly National
  Household Survey
• Job roles to be covered through the CSOs new
  National Employment Survey, fieldwork and data
  collection for which was carried out last year
• Progress over time EU SILC ? (replacing ECHP
  survey)
• Time use and unpaid work possible inclusion in
  Census 2006

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• Previous slide highlights importance of dialogue
  between users producers of statistics and
  between producers
• Briefing sessions were held for Central
  Statistics Office staff (with CSO staff
  involvement) focused on data issues, gaps, policy
  concerns, data use within the context of an
  increase in evidence based policy making
• The last point very important that those
  producing the statistics know that what they
  produce is valued and the uses data is put to
  enables flexibility of response and evolution of
  collection and production methods

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• Indicators
• Beijing Platform for Action areas of concern
• Production of listing of potential indicators in
  Ireland
• Data lacking for majority of this long listing
• Highlights need for an agreed, relevant to policy
  concerns and realistic set of indicators for
  which reliable, timely data exists
• Less is more (e.g. Laeken indicators - Primary,
  Secondary, Tertiary indicators gender
  disaggregated)
• CSOs Measuring Irelands Progress -
  disaggregated

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• Other areas of work
• Agriculture
• Department of Agriculture and Food report Role
  of Women in Agriculture in 2000
• Recommendations over a wide range of areas of
  farm life and supports
• Unit undertook to progress two recommendations
• Assessment of main gaps in existing information
  on women in agriculture Spring 2003 identified
  areas/gaps of interest for possible future work
• One area identified was an attitudinal survey of
  the role of women on the farm

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• Women and Men on Farms in Ireland their
  activities, attitudes and experiences
• Research survey carried out in 2003/2004
• More women than men had paid employment off the
  farm most full-time employment
• Inheritance/succession by a son keeping the name
  on the land was important consideration for
  women and men
• Men ascribed a higher level of importance to the
  work of women on the farm than the women placed
  on their own work!
• Responses of women and men often very similar

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• Regional requirement for data in Ireland at
  NUTS2, NUTS3 and NUTS4 levels
• Geographic Gender Equality Women and Men
  across the regions of Ireland
• Analysis of existing Census and other data by
  region and presentation in colour coded maps and
  tables

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• Information resources not just for the specialist
  topics or policy makers
• Taking the example of Statistics Sweden,
  produced
• Women and Men in Ireland Facts and Figures
• Small pocket sized booklet
• EU Presidency

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• Work also included further research on indicators
  listing relevant to the Areas of concern
  identified in the Beijing Platform for Action for
  NSW
• Cross Government Department work on the Steering
  Group for Social and Equality Statistics
  identifying data sources and data needs across
  Government
• Assistance to organisations with gender
  disaggregated data holdings
• Assist in developing gender disaggregated
  indicators

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• So we providebaseline context statistics
• Factsheets and information resources on a range
  of specific measures topics, e.g.
• Relevance sheets for each NDP measure
• How to.. sheets
• Used in conjunction with dialogue and persuasion
• Project selection, Implementation, Evaluation
• Progress, but uneven. For GMS prog. indicators
  more than output no.s of women men1st step