The Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC) in partnership with the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), United Nations Economic Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) and Jordan Department of Statistics and within the framework of the Global Gender Statistics Programme, organized the Regional Workshop on 'Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics' for Arabic-speaking countries in Amman, Jordan on 1-4 December 2014.

The objective of the workshop was to strengthen the capacity of national statistical offices on the production, analysis and use of gender statistics through the integration of a gender perspective into the national statistical systems, with a special focus on population censuses as a source of gender statistics. The workshop also fostered exchange of national experiences among participating countries.

The workshop focused on the use of the census data collected by countries during the 2010 census round. Censuses provide a rich source of information for a snapshot of the situation of women and men in countries, not only because of the variety of topics (education, economic activity, literacy, disability) that a census covers, but also because it allows disaggregation for small areas and population groups.

12 Arabic-speaking countries in Western Asia participated in the workshop.

Documents

• Agenda (English)
• List of Participants (English)

Statement:

• Speech by Jordan (English)
• Opening Statement by UNSD (English)

Presentations:

• Session 1      Developing a coherent and comprehensive plan for the production of gender statistics

• • Global Gender Statistics Programme - UNSD (English)
  • Overview of gender statistics: why, what, for whom and how - UNSD (English)
  • Countries’ experience in integrating gender into national statistics - Bahrain (Arabic)
  • Countries’ experience in integrating gender into national statistics - Egypt (Arabic)
  • Countries’ experience in integrating gender into national statistics - Yemen (Arabic)

• Session 2       Integrating a gender perspective into population and housing census operations

• • Integrate gender into population and housing census operation - UNSD (English)
  • Country experience - Jordan (English)

• Session 3        Integrating a gender perspective into health statistics

• • Bringing gender issues into statistics on health - UNSD (English)

• Session 4       Integrating a gender perspective into work statistics

• • Bringing gender issues into work statistics - UNSD (English)
  • Country experience - Jordan (English)
  • Group Exercise (English)

• Session 5        Integrating a gender perspective into poverty statistics

• • Bringing gender issues into poverty statistics - UNSD (English)
  • Country experience - Sudan (Arabic)

• Session 6           Violence against women surveys

• • Guidelines for Producing Statistics on Violence Against Women - UNESCWA (English)
  • Country experience - Iraq (Arabic)
  • Country experience - Morocco (Arabic)
  • Country experience - Tunisia (Arabic)

• Session 7        Time use surveys

• • Time Use Surveys and gender statistics - UNESCWA (English)
  • Country experience - State of Palestine (Arabic)
  • Country experience - Tunisia (Arabic)

• Session 8        Population and Housing censuses: Use of census data for gender statistics

• • UNSD Presentation (English)
  • Country experience - Morocco (English)
  • Country experience - State of Palestine (Arabic)
  • Country experience - Tunisia (Arabic)
  • Group Exercise (English)

• Session 9         Analysis and presentation of gender statistics: an overview

• • From raw data to easily understood gender statistics - UNSD (English)

• Session 10          Regional work programme on gender statistics

• • Regional perspective, the way forward - UN-ESCWA (English)
  • Country presentation on framework and future plans - Jordan (Arabic)
  • Country presentation on framework and future plans - Morocco (Arabic)
  • Country presentation on framework and future plans - Qatar (Arabic)
  • Country presentation on framework and future plans - Sudan (Arabic)
  • Country presentation on framework and future plans - Tunisia (Arabic)

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