Interstate statistical committee OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES ( cis-sTAT )

1. Interstate statistical committee OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES (cis-sTAT) Poverty and Inequality: capability and perspectives of further development of statistics in CIS member states in the purpose of monitoring of SDG implementation. Youth and Gender context BrysevaValentina, CIS-Stat Working Meeting of Specialists of National Statistical Offices of CIS Member-States on Youth and Gender Statistics December, 6-7, 2016,Moscow 

2. From the MDGs to SDGs

3. Estimate of readiness of CIS countries to SDG monitoring CIS-Stat sent a questionnaire to the statistical services to get the following information on the SDG-indicators. The presentation shows the questionnaireresults on poverty indicators.

4. Main problems of poverty statistics UNECE jointly with Rosstat and CIS-Stat work to improve the statistics of poverty under the project "Harmonisedpoverty indicators for monitoring sustainable development in the CIS countries", funded by the Russian Federation. Main problems: lack of time series; data incomparability (different well-being indicators and poverty line); need of new approaches to poverty estimate, taking into account the living conditions and access to basic services (education, health, etc).

5. Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere (1) The World Bank developed the methodology for global comparisons. Data on the level of poverty of the countries are on the web-site, without breakdown by sex and age. Different poverty line are adopted for countries with different levels of economic development: extreme poverty line is calculated on the basis of data on consumption in the poorest countries of the world. The value ranged from US $1 a day purchasing power parity (1985 PPP) to US $1.9 a day (2011 PPP). This indicator is not relevant for the majority of the CIS countries; other poverty line (US $2 a day (2005 PPP) => US $3.1 a day (2011 PPP).

6. Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere (2) Share of the population with incomes/ expenditures below frontiers of poverty in the US $1.9 and US $3.1 a day (2011 PPP) (percent of total population) World Bank data http://databank.worldbank.org/data/reports.aspx?source=poverty-and-equity-database

7. Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere (3) All CIS countries noted the relevance of the indicator and the methodology is available. Concept of absolute monetary poverty is used for official poverty estimates in the majority of the CIS countries. Problems of information in the context of gender:: not all CIS countries estimate poverty by sex and age; various age groups.

8. Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere (4) Share of the population with incomes/ expenditures below the national poverty line(percent of total population of the corresponding group) 1Females aged 31-54, males - 31-59.

9. Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere (5) Share of population with average consumption expenditures below the poverty line in Moldova (percent of total population of the corresponding group; 2014) by sex by the head of the household

10. Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere (6) Share of young people with incomes/ expenditures below the national poverty line (percent of total population of the corresponding group; 2014) 118-19 years.

11. Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere (7) The are no official criteria of extremely poverty in the majority of the CIS countries. Share of the population with incomes/ expenditures below national extreme poverty line(percent of total population)

12. Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere (8) Definition of the indicator is based on Recommendation 202 "On the minimum levels of social protection", adopted at the 101 Session of the General Conference of the ILO (May, 30, 2012, Geneva, Switzerland). In CIS countries: no national definition of a minimum level of social protection; data are collected based on administrative sources, without breakdown by sex, age, etc.

13. Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere (9) The majority of the CIS countries informed that they have no methodology and do not collect data. The main object at the international and national level is the determination of the list of “basic services" and information sources.

14. Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture (1) Current household surveys provide information on food consumption at the household level. The information on the individual members of the households is available on the basis of specialized surveys of the nutrition. The sources of information are also the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys and Demographic and Health Survey, which are conducted in the majority of the CIS countries.

15. Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture (2) Estimation of household food sufficiency in Russia (according to the sample survey of diet, percentage, 2013)

16. Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries Global comparisons – the World Bank calculation. The majority of the CIS countries have the methodology and are able to the calculation these indicators. Comparability problems: the use of different well-being indicators; the use of different equivalence scales; indicators disaggregation by gender and age.

17. Thank you for attention! Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS-Stat) http://www.cisstat.com 17