Dissemination and Communication of Gender Statistics: Republic of Moldova

Nadejda Cojocari,

National Bureau of Statistics

CONTENT

Dissemination strategy and gender statistics

Engagement with data users

Gender indicators in national monitoring framework Products used to disseminate gender statistics

Web analytics

Next steps

Dissemination Strategy

of Gender Statistics:

Effective dissemination strategy is very important to ensure that

gender statistics are not only produced, but are fully utilised, and

they continue to be produced and improved in the long term.

The legal framework is crucial:

According to The Law on Equal Opportunities of Men and Women

adopted in 2006, NBS is responsible for collection, processing and

compilation of gender statistics, but central and local public

administration, political parties and other socio-political

organizations, legal entities and individuals involved in

entrepreneurial activities, will provide to NBS all the needed data

disaggregated by sex (art.22).

Annual Program of Statistical Work includes provisions related to the

level of data disaggregation.

User’s engagement mechanism

Annual consultation board in the context of revision NBS work plan;

Inter-ministerial working group on production and dissemination of gender statistics, namely the gender focal points/ institutional groups;

User advisory groups

Dedicated survey to gender statistics users, 2008

User satisfaction survey of overall NBS

2009 – no gender statistics considered

2012 – gender statistics considered

User satisfaction survey

discussions of priorities in gender statistics, including data gaps;

can be used to develop partnerships and coordinate plans across organisations;

statistical literacy

Workshops and seminars

User Satisfaction Survey, 2008

The goal

• to identify the need of current and potential users (areas and indicators), to assess the level of usage and access of gender statistics;

• to assess the content of statistical publication Women and Men

I

•paper based interview, more than 100 respondents from different target groups (public administration, academia, NGOs, international organisations)

II

•in depth interview with NGOs representatives and main focal gender points

User satisfaction survey results (2008):

•data are widely used by users (85%), mainly for research purposes (56%) and policy making (50%);

•the main source of data are printed statistical publications (77%) and NBS website (73%);

Use of data, main source

•the main difficulties are lack of indicators disaggregated by sex and other criteria, such as residence area, etc., timeliness and availability of time series, lack of specific indicators;

Access to data

•publication should contain more data disaggregated by sex;

•data should be presented in a user friendly way, including explanation of indicators;

•the list of new indicators and new area have been identified in order to be considered in further publications;

•there was a confusion of what means gender statistics and how to identify the appropriate indicators for policy making;

Needs of publication

User Satisfaction Survey, 2012

The goal

• to assess the level of satisfaction with statistical products in order to improve the policy and practices of NBS, including institutional functionality in the framework of quality management;

I

•paper based interview, 400 respondents from different target groups (public administration, academia, NGOs, international organisations, media, private sector);

II •4 focus groups and 10 in depth interview;

Main results user

satisfaction survey 2012:

•NBS is the main source of information for more than 85% of users;

Use of data, main

source

•Users are more interested in data from population domain, labour force, prices and salary data, AND gender statistics are still one of the area underused by users; •Users would prefer to have more data available online (76%) and only 23% - printed publications;

Areas of interest,

difficulties

•Different approaches to target different group of users (beginner, intermediate, advanced);

•There is an increase demand for data analysis; Needs

The frequency of data use

in the last 2 years

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68

44 44

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population labour force gender statistics

never at least once/year at least once/quarter

Gender indicators in national

monitoring framework

• full set: 209 indicators, of which 101 were available, 53 needed some adjustment, and 55 were not available

• short set: 118 indicators, of which 15 were partially available (data collection mechanism should be adjusted

In 2008 a harmonized set of indicators in a gender sensitive

manner

•main indicators: 36 indicators

•additional indicators: 123 indicators, of which 65 were available, 30 needed some adjustment, and 25 were not available.

short metadata available

In 2012 the harmonized set of indicators has been revised

according to the 8 main strategic objectives of National Program

on Ensuring Gender Equity (NPEGE) for 2010-2015

•61 indicators

New National Program on Ensuring Equality 2017-2021

Types of Products used to disseminate

Gender statistics

•Press releases and Statistical publications presenting results of specific surveys

Ongoing

•Statistical publications focused on gender issues

2004-2012 • Online database

2008-2016

• Analytical reports and/or articles

2014, 2016 • GenderPulse

APP

2017

Data by

sex

Data +

analysis+new

data

Database

+Separate

folder

New way to

disseminate:

Infographs,

User friendly

Interactive,

User friendly

Statistical publication Women and Men in the Republic of Moldova

2004, 2005, 2009 editions: data are presented in tables and graphs

2008 edition – the first publication with short descriptive analysis which helps users to understand better the history behind the numbers

2013 edition – the second publication with data analysis, including data on Women and Men at the regional level

Statistical publications focused on gender issues

Data

+

Analysis

+

New

regional

data

Women and Men on the Labour Market

Entrepreneurship

Violence against women

Women and Men in agriculture (agricultural census)

Time use survey

Statistical publications presenting results of specific surveys:

2008

2009

2011

2012

2013

Taking care of children

Education

Reading

Mode of transportation

Importance of unpaid work

Volunteering and parcipatory activities

Time use by people with disabilities

Health and lifestyle

Social life and entertainment

Traveling

first collaboration with think-tank organization in presenting and communication of data 10 analytical reports have been prepared on the following topics

In 2014 New way to disseminate data: analytical reports

New way to communicate gender statistics: infographs

In 2016

10 Women’s profiles (most vulnerable category):

analytical reports+ inforgraphs

• Starting with 2014 a separate

compartment dedicated to Gender

statistics;

• It is structured in 4 subsections

according to the main policy making

decision area;

• Data are available for 2008-2016

time series and it includes 42

indicators from 52 of the Minimum

Set of Gender Indicators

recommended by United Nations

Statistics Division

On line database“StatBank”

Gender indicators not presented in

other compartments

Data disaggregated by sex are

available in other sections:

Population and Social statistics:

Labor force

Earning statistics

Education

Health statistics

Social protection

Justice

Regional statistics

On line database“StatBank”

In 2016 GenderPulse APP is launched

Web analytics

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550 506

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265 327

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2014 2015 2016 2017

Statistical products

Statistical publication "Women and Men"

Analytical reports on TUS

Women Profiles

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GenderPulse

Users Page views

Next steps

To present data in a user friendly way taking into account the need of

different group of users, to disseminate data to a wide range of users;

To maintain and expand online database on gender statistics;

To develop an effective communication plan for different statistical

products;

To promote statistical literacy overall and including on gender statistics;

To ensure the continuity of launched activities, including promotion of

GenderPulse (English version);

To develop a national roadmap for localizing SDGs from a perspective

on gender statistics;

New User Satisfaction Survey - 2018;

Activities according to National Statistical Development Strategy – new

indicators;

Thank you

for attention!

National Bureau of Statistics

of the Republic of Moldova

www.statistica.md