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United Nations global gender statistics programme: minimum set of gender indicators
Publisher: United Nations
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Following the recommendations by the United Nations Statistical Commission, the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics identified a minimum set of gender indicators composed of 52 quantitative indicators, and 11 qualitative indicators covering national norms and laws on gender equality. The group was aided in the development of the indicator set by its Advisory Group on Global Gender Statistics and Indicators Database, and experts from national statistical systems and international agencies.
As well as the minimum indicator set, handbooks and publications and background documents are also available on this United Nations Gender Statistics website. The selection of the 52 quantitative indicators was guided by the primary criterion that indicators should address key policy concerns as identified in the Beijing Platform for Action, and other more recent international commitments. They were agreed by the Commission as a guide for the national production and international compilation of gender statistics through its decision 44/109.
The 52 indicators cover the following themes: economic structures, participation in productive activities and access to resources; education; health and related services; human rights of women and girl children; and public life and decision-making. In addition, the selected 52 indicators were further classified into the following tiers:
Tier 1. Indicators conceptually clear, with an agreed international definition and regularly produced by countries.
Tier 2. Indicators conceptually clear, with an agreed international definition, but not yet regularly produced by countries.
Tier 3. Indicators for which international standards need still to be developed and not regularly produced by countries.
The Tier 3. indicators were restricted to the economic structures, participation in productive activities and access to resources theme, and included gender gaps in wages, as well as sex-disaggregated data concerning access to credit, land ownership, and access to mass media.
As well as the minimum indicator set, handbooks and publications and background documents are also available on this United Nations Gender Statistics website. The selection of the 52 quantitative indicators was guided by the primary criterion that indicators should address key policy concerns as identified in the Beijing Platform for Action, and other more recent international commitments. They were agreed by the Commission as a guide for the national production and international compilation of gender statistics through its decision 44/109.
The 52 indicators cover the following themes: economic structures, participation in productive activities and access to resources; education; health and related services; human rights of women and girl children; and public life and decision-making. In addition, the selected 52 indicators were further classified into the following tiers:
Tier 1. Indicators conceptually clear, with an agreed international definition and regularly produced by countries.
Tier 2. Indicators conceptually clear, with an agreed international definition, but not yet regularly produced by countries.
Tier 3. Indicators for which international standards need still to be developed and not regularly produced by countries.
The Tier 3. indicators were restricted to the economic structures, participation in productive activities and access to resources theme, and included gender gaps in wages, as well as sex-disaggregated data concerning access to credit, land ownership, and access to mass media.
