United Nations Statistics Division - Demographic and Social Statistics

June 2010
Statistics and indicators on women and men
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The United Nations Statistics Division, working with national statistics offices and international agencies, has issued several publications to assist national statistical authorities and other producers of statistics in introducing a gender perspective in the collection, compilation and dissemination of data.
Publication	Year	File	Size

Handbook for producing National Statistical Reports on Women and Men	1997	PDF	8.3 MB

Methods of Measuring Women's Economic Activity -- Technical Report	1993	PDF	11.4 MB

Methods of Measuring Women's Participation in the Informal Sector	1990	PDF	16.6 MB

Handbook on Social Indicators	1989	PDF	7.8 MB

Handbook for the Development of National Statistical Databases on Women and Development	1989

Improving Statistics and Indicators on Women Using Household Surveys	1988

Training Users and Producers in Compiling Statistics and Indicators on Women and Development	1987

Compiling Social Indicators on the Situation of Women	1984	PDF	9 MB

Concepts and Methods for Improving Statistics on the Situation of Women	1984	PDF	6.3 MB

DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL STATISTICS