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United Nations Economic Commission for EuropeStatistical DivisionUnited Nations Economic Commission for EuropeStatistical Division
Producing gender statistics through population censuses:
UNECE
Linda Hooper, Statistician
Social and Demographic Statistics Section
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UNECE Census Recommendations
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Three main points:
1) Question wording
2) Sub-population groups
3) Dissemination of data
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Question wording
How can census questions be improved to contain more gender relevant concepts?
For example:
• can census questions be improved to include all women and men who do work according to the ILO definition?
• Do the current questions capture persons who have “atypical jobs”?
Regional perspective on census and gender analysis
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Question wording
• Formally there is a clear distinction between employed and non employed population
• ILO definition: a person is currently employed if he/she has worked at least one hour the week previous the survey
• Work: for income (cash or kind) or unpaid production of goods
Regional perspective on census and gender analysis
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Question wording
Prior 1994, US Labour Force Survey (LFS): “What were you doing most of last week—working, keeping house, or something else?”
For women who primarily kept house but also did some paid work, this question appears to have
led to some underreporting of work
Now, US LFS: “Last week, did you do any work for pay or profit?”
Following the redesign, the survey found an increase in the number of workers, primarily women, who usually worked fewer than 10
hours per week
Regional perspective on census and gender analysis
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Question wording
Elimination of asking head of household
http://www.cso.ie/census/documents/census_2006_guide_25-27.pdf
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Detailed data and its use
Gender analysis of special populations• Inclusion of questions to identify the
subpopulation group status in the census, can provide very accurate data to measure the different social and economic status of the individuals according to both sex and minority status.
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Unemployment rate by sex and ethnicity, United Kingdom 2004
Source: Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom
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Dissemination
• Dissemination• Equality in Ireland 2007 by the Central
Statistics Office of Ireland Domains covered in the report:
– Population
– Martial status
– Family status
– Sexual orientation
– Religion
– Age
– Disability
– Ethnicity
– Traveller community
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Use and dissemination
• Geographic distribution Data from population censuses may at times be
presented and analysed in terms of statistics for a wide variety of geographical units ranging from the country as a whole to individual small localities or city blocks.
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Use and disseminationFamily composition
Working patterns of couples
Recombine dataEmployment by family situation in Ireland, 2006
0102030405060708090
100
no children youngest childaged 0-3
youngest childaged 4-5
youngest childaged 6-17
male
female
Source: Ireland CSO Census of Population, 2006