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| Body: | United Nations "Gender statistics are more than data disaggregated by sex. Sex-disaggregated statistics are simply data collected and tabulated separately for women and men. Having data by sex does not guarantee, for example, that data collection instruments involved in data production were conceived to reflect gender roles, relations and inequalities in society (United Nations Statistics Division, 2001a). This new UN report is designed to help statisticians working in developing countries develop true gender statistics. It can be used as a training or resource manual." Read full manual>> |
| Abstract: | United Nations "Gender statistics are more than data disaggregated by sex. Sex-disaggregated statistics are simply data collected and tabulated separately for women and men. Having data by sex does not guarantee, for example, that data collection instruments involved in data production were conceived to reflect gender roles, relations and inequalities in society (United Nations Statistics Division, 2001a). This new UN report is designed to help statisticians working in developing countries develop true gender statistics. It can be used as a training or resource manual." |
| URL to article: | http://unstats.un.org/unsd/genderstatmanual/ |