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Gender Dimensions in Statistics: Enhancing Equality and Empowerment

Explore how gender perspectives are integrated into statistics on demographic, education, labor force, and disability factors, with recommendations for gender equality. Presented at a conference in Kampala, Uganda, reflecting Kenya's efforts and commitments.

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Gender Dimensions in Statistics: Enhancing Equality and Empowerment

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  1. Integrating Gender Perspective in Statistics 4-7 December 2012 Kampala, Uganda GENDER DIMENSIONS BY ROSEARY USIDE KONGANI KENYA NATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS KNBS

  2. REPUBLIC OF KENYA KNBS

  3. Contents • Demographic Characteristics • Education • Labour Force • Household and Housing Amenities • Persons with Disabilities • Conclusions and Recommendations KNBS

  4. Introduction • The Government’s commitment and efforts to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment are reflected in the ratification of numerous international conventions and instruments such as Convention on • Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), • Beijing Platform for Action, and the • United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, among others KNBS

  5. The millennium development goals are internationally agreed upon for social economic development. The status of achieving these goals is highlighted in various chapters of the Gender Dimensions Monograph. • Existing policies and programmes, methodology and conceptual framework. KNBS

  6. Population Pyramid by Sex and Age Group, 2009 Source: 2009 Population and Housing Census KNBS

  7. Demographic Characteristics • Explores how change in population growth and distribution directly affect the living conditions of people and gives a gender perspective of the major demographic characteristics; fertility, mortality, migration and urbanization. • These demographic factors have profound effects on human development along the lifecycle e.g. age at first marriage, age at first birth etc. KNBS

  8. Socio-Economic Characteristics • Education • Labour Force • Household and Asset Ownership • PWDs KNBS

  9. GENDER DIMENSIONS OF EDUCATION • Attendance Status • Attainment • Enrolment • Dropout Rate • Never went to school KNBS

  10. Enrolment in Primary & Secondary • GER: Females-109.2, Males-112.2 (Primary) • NET: Females-79.7, Males-77.8 “ • GER: Females-49, Males-54 (Secondary) • NER: Females-28, Males-23 “ KNBS

  11. School Attendance Status KNBS

  12. Educational Attainment KNBS

  13. Dropout Rates Age KNBS

  14. The gender gap tends to increase in higher levels of education where females reduce in number. KNBS

  15. Gender Dimension of Labour Force • Economic Status • Employed • Unemployed • Working Children • Economically Inactive KNBS

  16. Economic Status KNBS

  17. Gender Dimensions for Household • Household headship • Marital Status • Economic status • Working • Unemployed • Inactive • Asset Ownership KNBS

  18. GENDER DIMENTIONS OF DISABILITY • Types of disabilities • Visual • Hearing • Speech • Physical • Mental • Self-care • Other KNBS

  19. Proportion of PWDs by Sex and Type of Disability Types of Disabilities KNBS

  20. Socio-Economic Profile • Education Attainment • Primary • Secondary • Higher Education • Economic Status • Working • Unemployed • Inactive KNBS

  21. Asset Ownership • Radio • TV • Car • Land • Cattle Analysis based on household headship KNBS

  22. THANK YOU!!!! KNBS

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