The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics
This report uniquely focuses on national reporting of sex disaggregated statistics in such areas as demographics, health, education, work, violence against women, poverty, human rights and decision-making. This is the fourth World's Women report since 1990. The previous three focused on statistical trends in the situation of women. Five years ago, the World's Women report emphasized that there was a lack of sex disaggregated data and that the improvement of national statistical capacity - the ability to provide timely and reliable statistics - is essential for improving gender statistics.
As a response to the concerns raised in the previous issue, The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics reviews and analyses the current availability of data and assesses progress made in the provision of national statistics, as opposed to internationally prepared estimates, relevant to gender concerns during the past 30 years. This report proposes a set of strategies to strengthen national capacity to collect and report statistics and also for improved mainstreaming of gender concerns.
The annex reports on the availability of national statistics relevant to gender issues and provides updated figures for many of the indicators presented in The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics, plus some additional indicators on the status of women and men.
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- Other Languages: Arabic pdf; Chinese pdf; French pdf; Russian pdf; Spanish pdf
Media resources
- UN webcast of book launch Video
- UN press release html
- An Unfinished Job: Tracking Vital Statistics Disaggregated by Sex:
Arabic pdf; Chinese pdf; English pdf; French pdf; Russian pdf; Spanish pdf - What Part Do Women Play in World Economic Activity? Their Contribution Still Not Fully Captured By Official Statistics:
Arabic pdf; Chinese pdf; English pdf; French pdf; Russian pdf; Spanish pdf - Slow Progress in Official Statistics Bringing Violence against Women to Public Scrutiny:
Arabic pdf; Chinese pdf; English pdf; French pdf; Russian pdf; Spanish pdf - UN calls for added statistical capacities to back-up push for women's rights, development:
Arabic pdf; Chinese pdf; English pdf; French pdf; Russian pdf; Spanish pdf - Civil conflict and severe lack of development take a toll on statistical capacities:
Arabic pdf; Chinese pdf; English pdf; French pdf; Russian pdf; Spanish pdf
Report by section
- Message from the Secretary-General and Preface: English pdf
- Executive summary: Chinese pdf; English pdf; Russian pdf
- Introduction: English pdf
- Chapter 1 - Population, households and families: English pdf
- Chapter 2 - Health: English pdf
- Chapter 3 - Education and training: English pdf
- Chapter 4 - Work: English pdf
- Chapter 5 - Violence against women: English pdf
- Chapter 6 - Poverty, decision-making and human rights: English pdf
- Chapter 7 - Conclusion: English pdf
- Annex I - Statistical tables: English pdf; Zip excel file
- Annex II - List of countries or areas by development group: English pdf
The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics (ST/ESA/STAT/SER.K/17), United Nations Publication, Sales No. E.05.XVII.7, ISBN 92-1-161482-1
For comments or inquiries contact:
Demographic and Social Statistics Branch
United Nations Statistics Division
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations
New York, NY 10017, USA
Fax: +1 (212) 963-1940
E-mail: genderstat@un.org