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Build Your Own Gender Indexmy.genderindex.org
Christopher Garroway, OECD Development Centre
Seth Flaxman, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Gender Equality and Progress in Societies
12 March 2010
OECD Headquarters, Paris
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Build Your Own Gender Index: Visualizing Social Institutions
Enabling users to make decisions for themselves about which factors they value makes the underlying data and resulting ranking more meaningful and personal to the user.
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Build Your Own Gender Index: Visualizing Social Institutions
1 The SIGI Composite Indicator
2 The “Build Your Own Ranking” Tool: my.genderindex.org
3 Beyond SIGI: underlying ideas
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SIGI: The Social Institutions and Gender Index
• Innovative measure of social institutions that are root causes of gender inequality
• 124 countries (102 ranked) -- 5 sub-indices / 12 variables
• 3+ years of research and analysis, country notes, coding, scoring…
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“Traditional” tools for sharing data produced at OECD
OECD.Stat• Metadata• Definitions• Exportable
in .txt, .csv, .xls…
Can be useful for researchers….
IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR!
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New tool to share, explore, and explain data produced at OECD
My Gender Index
• Change weight of different social institutions in index
• Drop social institutions from calculations
• Filter by region
• Ranking and map update automatically
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Drop Variables and See How Countries Change Rank
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Change Weights and Look at Ranking Details
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Filter Data by Regions and Explore Issues of Concern
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Conclusions
• Encourage exploration of your data by specialists and the public
• Embrace the growing public data movement: data.gov, data.gov.uk, Google Public Data, etc.
• Join and harness the power of a motivated community of open source developers
• How do we measure our own progress and success?