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EDGE Technical Meeting on Measuring Entrepreneurship from a Gender Perspective
Under the Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE) initiative, the UN Statistics Division and the UN Women held a meeting with national statisticians, partner agencies, regional commissions and scholars to take stock of available research and data on gender and entrepreneurship and to identify EDGE's contribution in this area. The meeting marked the beginning of EDGE's work to develop methodological guidelines on measuring entrepreneurship from a gender perspective.
Main Documents
Presentations
- Session 1 Welcome and Overview - UNSD
- Session 2 Defining Entrepreneurship: Key Questions and Gender Issues - UNSD
- Session 3 Why Measure Entrepreneurship from a Gender Perspective - Kauffman Foundation The Entrepreneurial Propensity of Women - Syracuse University Entrepreneurship in Informal Employment Gender Perspective - WIEGO Network
- Session 4 How Do We Measure Entrepreneurship from a Gender Perspective? Overview of Current Approaches and Existing Data Sources - OCDE
- Session 5 Ghana's Experience in Measuring Entrepreneurship - Ghana Mexico's Experience Using Enterprise-Based Surveys to Measure Entrepreneurship - Mexico Encuesta Nacional de Micronegocios - Mexico Population Survey Data: Evidence and Lessons from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor - GEM Survey of Employers and the Self-Employed - South Africa
- Session 6 Indian Surveys on Organised and Unorganised Sectors: Measuring Entrepreneurship from a Gender Perspective - India Using the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) to Study Gender and Entrepreneurship - Kauffman Foundation Measuring Entrepreneurship from a Gender Perspective - US Census Bureau World Bank's Enterprise Surveys Capturing Gender - World Bank
- Session 7 Georgia: Business Register Data and Gender-Disaggregated Indicators - Georgia Measuring Entrepreneurship from a Gender Perspective: Tidbits from the Philippines - Philippines