The Gender Statistics meetings brings together experts from the National Statistical Offices, Women Machineries, regional and international experts to review and discuss development of gender statistics for evidence-based policy making.
The IAEG-GS will discuss two main topics: (i) methods for compiling and calculating the Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG5) indicators, and (ii) the final version of the ESCWA Household Survey Questionnaire on Violence against Women presently being peer reviewed at the country level. Countries will share good practices in compiling and calculating SDG5 in the areas of their competencies. The expected outcome of the IAEG-GS will be the ESCWA Handbook for SDG5, and ESCWA Household Survey Questionnaire on Violence against Women.
Session 1: Women power, decision making and time use
5.b.1 Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex and age group 15-49 years
5.4.1 Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location
5.5.1(a) Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments
5.5.1(b) Proportion of seats held by women in (b) local governments
5.5.2 Proportion of women in managerial positions
5.6.1 Proportion of women aged 15-49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care
Session 2: Violence against women
5.2.1 Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age
5.2.2 Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence
5.3.1 Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
5.3.2 Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age
- ESCWA (Arabic)
- Egypt (521,522,532) (Arabic)
- Jordan (531) (Arabic)
Session 3: Regional VAW questionnaire for Arab countries
Session 4: : legal framework and women's equal rights to land ownership and/or control
5.a.1(a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex
5.a.1(b) Share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure
5.a.2 Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women's equal rights to land ownership and/or control
Cairo, Egypt
