UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE Conference of European Statisticians Task Force on Indicators of Gender Equality Indicators of Gender Equality Draft, 7 January 2014 The Bureau of the Conference of European Statisticians (CES) reviewed the draft report “Indicators of gender equality” at its October 2013 meeting and requested the secretariat to circulate it for a broad consultation to all countries and international organizations who participate in the work of CES. Please send your feedback and comments on the draft report by 28 February 2014 to Andres Vikat ([email protected]) and Christopher Jones ([email protected]). Please structure your comments as follows: general comments; comments on the structure of the report; comments on the proposed indicators (chapter 2 and annex A); comments on proposals for further work (chapter 3). The secretariat will summarise the comments and present them at the UNECE Work Session on Gender Statistics (Geneva, 19-21 March) and subsequently at the CES plenary session (Paris, 9-11 April). Subject to a positive outcome of the consultation, the report will be submitted to the 2014 CES plenary session for endorsement. Acknowledgement The present report is prepared by the UNECE Task Force on Indicators of Gender Equality, which consisted of the following members: Cristina Freguja (Istat, Italy, Chair of the Task Force), Dean Adams and Rajni Madan (Australian Bureau of Statistics), Yafit Alfandari (Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel), Sara Demofonti, Lidia Gargiulo, Paola Ungaro and Maria Giuseppina Muratore (Istat, Italy), Marion van den Brakel (Statistics Netherlands), Maria José Carrilho (Statistics Portugal), Teresa Escudero (National Statistics Institute, Spain), Karen Hurrell (Equality and Human Rights Commission, United Kingdom), Ilze Burkevica, Ligia Nobrega and Anna Rita Manca (European Institute for Gender Equality), Piotr Ronkowski and Sabine Gagel (Eurostat), Adriana Mata Greenwood (ILO), Andres Vikat, Christopher Jones and Mihaela Darii-Sposato (UNECE). The report has been discussed and agreed by the entire Task Force. Some organizations took the primary responsibility of drafting certain chapters, as follows: Statistics Netherlands – Poverty National Statistics Institute, Spain – Education Australian Bureau of Statistics – Health Istat, Italy – Violence Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel and UNECE – Economy UNECE – Power and decision-making, Media, Childhood and adolescents Statistics Portugal – Human rights European Institute for Gender Equality – Environment Eurostat – Demographic background Contents 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................. 5 1.1 Background and objective ........................................................................................... 5 1.2 Framework ................................................................................................................... 5 1.3 Selection criteria .......................................................................................................... 6 1.4 Domains ....................................................................................................................... 6 1.5 Outline ......................................................................................................................... 7 2 Summary of Proposed Indicators .............................................................................. 9 3 Issues Requiring Further Work ................................................................................ 16 3.1 Proposals for enhancing the UNECE Gender Statistics Database ............................. 16 3.2 Methodological and data issues ................................................................................ 16 3.2.1 Poverty ........................................................................................................................... 16 3.2.2 Violence .......................................................................................................................... 17 3.2.3 Health ............................................................................................................................. 18 3.2.4 Power and decision-making in society ........................................................................... 18 3.2.5 Power and decision-making in the household ............................................................... 18 3.2.6 Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of gender equality .............................. 19 3.2.7 Media ............................................................................................................................. 19 3.2.8 Children and adolescents ............................................................................................... 19 Annex A : Indicators by Topic ........................................................................................... 20 A.1 Poverty ....................................................................................................................... 20 A.1.1 Introduction.................................................................................................................... 20 A.1.2 Available sources of indicators ....................................................................................... 22 A.1.3 Consideration of poverty indicators by topic ................................................................. 22 A.1.4 Data availability .............................................................................................................. 29 A.1.5 Proposed indicators........................................................................................................ 29 A.2 Education ................................................................................................................... 32 A.2.1 Introduction.................................................................................................................... 32 A.2.2 Available sources of indicators ....................................................................................... 35 A.2.3 Consideration of indicators by topic .............................................................................. 38 A.2.4 Proposed indicators........................................................................................................ 40 A.3 Health ......................................................................................................................... 42 A.3.1 Introduction.................................................................................................................... 42 A.3.2 Available sources of indicators ....................................................................................... 46 A.3.3 Consideration of indicators by topic .............................................................................. 57 A.3.4 Proposed indicators........................................................................................................ 62 A.4 Violence ..................................................................................................................... 64 A.4.1 Introduction.................................................................................................................... 64 A.4.2 Data availability .............................................................................................................. 66 A.4.3 Consideration of indicators by topic .............................................................................. 67 A.4.4 Proposed indicators........................................................................................................ 69 A.5 Economy..................................................................................................................... 72 A.5.1 Introduction.................................................................................................................... 72 A.5.2 Available sources of indicators ....................................................................................... 78 A.5.3 Considerations for indicator choice by topic ................................................................. 79 A.5.4 Proposed indicators........................................................................................................ 83 A.5.5 Variables and classifications ........................................................................................... 86 A.6 Power and decision-making in society ...................................................................... 87 A.6.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 87 A.6.2 Available sources of indicators ...................................................................................... 88 A.6.3 Consideration of indicators by topic.............................................................................. 92 A.6.4 Proposed indicators ....................................................................................................... 93 A.7 Power and decision-making in the household .......................................................... 94 A.7.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 94 A.7.2 Selecting indicators .......................................................................................................