Gender institutional framework: Implications for household surveys

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Gender institutional framework Implications
for household surveys Global Forum on Gender
Statistics, Rome, Italy 10 12 Dec 2007
Session 8 Engendering Household Surveys
Measuring Work Cyril Parirenyatwa 7 December
2007
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• Introduction
• commitments to gender equality/equity
• Need for gender mainstreaming policies,
  programmes and budgets
• gender statistics input to policy formulation,
  implementation, monitoring and evaluation
• enabling environment for gendered surveys depends
  on number of interrelated factors
• Presentation on gender institutional framework
  and implications on surveys for measuring work
  e.g. Labour Force Surveys

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• Driving forces for engendered statistics
• International and regional agreements
• Zimbabwe is party / signatory to
  international/regional agreements on gender
  equity and equality
• Adopted three goals as priority Goal 3 promote
  gender equality and empower women and Goals 1 6
• National policymaking developments
  Constitutional and legislative framework
• National Gender Policy (2004) and Plan of Action
  
• National gender machinery composed of Ministry
  Gender Focal Points (GFP) - ministries/parastatals
  trained in gender mainstreaming private sector
  to be included later

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• National policymaking developments
• National gender machinery (contd)
• Equal opportunities legislation and
  anti-discrimination laws to safeguard against
  discrimination
• Gender Budgeting and Results Based Budgeting
  principles,
• Long / Medium term plans Vision 2020 Zimbabwe
  United National Development Assistance Frame
  (ZUNDAF) Zimbabwe Economic Development Strategy
  (ZEDS, 2009 2015 under preparation) Thematic
  groups on gender.
• Other measures Affirmative Action differential
  entry requirements into institutions of higher
  learning for the girl child jjoint custody of
  children womens ownership of land.

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• Engendering Household Surveys Measuring Work -
  facilitating conditions results of driving
  forces
• Census and Statistics Legislation, 2007
• Establishes Semi-autonomous Statistics Agency
  (ZIMSTAT) with Board with at least half of the
  members being women.
• Board to approve national censuses and surveys
  conducted by other persons
• ZIMSTAT to co-ordinate the National Statistical
  System (NSS)
• Gender Focal Point appointed Govt. /
  Parastatals
• Gender Statistics Section responsible for
• strengthening gender statistics
• gender sensitization of staff, including
  fieldstaff
• producing gender statistics products
• training in gender and child analysis for CSO, NSS

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• Engendering Household Surveys Measuring Work -
  facilitating conditions
• Household Surveys Programme
• size of the surveys enable generation of
  gender-sensitive indicators
• gender sensitivity is practiced at the
  recruitment e.g. Demographic and Health Survey.
• Training for trainers fieldstaff
• Census and Survey Planning Committees -
  representation Gender, Household Surveys
  Sampling GIS, Employment key stakeholders
• Stakeholder consultation and participation for
  prioritisation through user inquiries user -
  producer workshops
• Consensus-building workshop to ensure relevance
  of data

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• Engendering Household Surveys Measuring Work -
  facilitating conditions
• Dissemination of gender statistics through
• Dissemination workshops release and discuss
  results, identify data needs
• Specific gender reports
• Gender sensitive statistics
• Internet (website - http//www.zimstat.org)
• Databases
• Zimbabwe National Statistics Database (ZIMDAT)
  contains economic, social and political
  indicators from 1980 and most indicators are
  disaggregated by sex
• Integrated Management Information System (IMIS)
  accommodates individual data records.

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• Implications for engendering household surveys
• Questions on individuals include sex variable
• Examples engendered survey results, 2004 LFS
  Child Labour Survey
• Labour force participation (LFPR) for males (av.
  91) exceed those for females (av. 84)
• Economically inactive females were 537 thousand
  vs. 292 thousand males
• Of working age population, 79 was employed
• Employment rate Male - 85 Females 74
• Large differentials between male and female
  employment rates in urban provinces of Harare
  (male - 71 female - 44 ) and Bulawayo (male -
  70 female - 46 ).

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• Examples engendered survey results, 2004 LFS
  Child Labour Survey
• Broad youth (age 15-24 yrs) unemployment rate
  Females - 19 male - 11 both sexes - 15
• Of 529 000 unemployed, 45 were previously
  employed of whom 79 were female
• Of 5.1 million currently employed 15 681 000
  and were in informal sector 319 000 males and
  362 000 females
• Informal sector absorbed 31 000 persons of
  ever-retrenched from Jan 95 and May 2004 80
  being male
• 59 males and 81 females of agricultural
  employees reported injuries that were work
  related
• Question how policy makers used the information?

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• Lessons for engendering surveys measuring work
• Basis for gender statistics expressed in
• International/regional/ national documents and
  plans
• national legislations/ regulations documents and
  plans
• Manuals and guidelines on gender statistics
• Gender statistics workshops and seminars
• for monitoring Goal 3, Zimbabwe Millennium
  Development Goals 2004 Progress Report assessed
  existing capacities using the categories of very
  weak, weak, fair, strong and very strong as
  follows
• Fair data gathering and the quality of survey
  information
• Weak statistical tracking, analysis and
  incorporating statistics into policy
• No system for gender monitoring and evaluation
  was in existence.

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• Need vigorous awareness campaign within the NSS
  about
• existence of the documents together with
  knowledge about gender concerns and gender
  equality policies
• mainstreaming gender statistics in the national
  statistical system
• Some strategies for engendering household
  surveys
• Establish National Gender Statistics Committee
• Gender training (sensitisation, analysis, etc)
• Include the sex variable in all data collected
• fill data gaps
• Develop gender statistics database
• compile compendium on standards, concepts,
  definitions
• At international and regional levels engender
  existing manuals and guidelines

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