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Gender Statistics, achievements and challenges. National Institute of Statistics Albania. INSTAT & Gender Statistics. Gender Issues: great importance in the country. This means: need for gender statistics.
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Gender Statistics, achievements and challenges National Institute of Statistics Albania
INSTAT & Gender Statistics • Gender Issues: great importance in the country. This means: need for gender statistics. • INSTAT is the key institution of producing and disseminating data in the country; it has a crucial role regarding gender statistics. • Since 1998: Women and Men in Albania • Participation in different researches and studies regarding gender issues. • Trying to improve the current situation of gender statistics.
Legislation • The statistical law does not specify the production and dissemination of sex-disaggregated data. • The recent law on equal opportunities outlines the collection of sex-disaggregated data.
Collaboration • With different NGOs, Committee for Equal Opportunities, research and academic institutions (Gender Institute FoSS). • Need for a better coordination with the other producers: ministries in order to improve the administrative records (one of the main sources of data). Some ministries does not collect sex-disaggregated data.
International collaboration • Very positive : they stress on the need for gender statistics. • International partners are very committed in supporting INSTAT to improve gender statistics. • Sida-Statistic Sweden, UNDP, SDC
Some achievements • LSMS: useful sex-disaggregated data (employment, poverty, education etc) • The research publication based on Census 2001 data Gender Perspectives in Albania • Gender perspectives in NSSED …… !!! • Common Country Assessment 2004.A chapter on Gender equality and a strong effort to mainstream gender through the entire document.One of the objectives : Identify data gaps.
Problems… • Violence against Women : lack of data Main sources: different studies and surveys by NGOs and IOs. No institutional response……. • Need for surveys. Actually no Time Use Survey, LFS or HBS – useful sources of sex- disaggregated data. (Hope that INSTAT will conduct a LFS or HBS in the future: include questions on Time Use)
Ideas for the (near) future • Improve the relationship between users-producers.Propose to all the interested users to send to INSTAT their needs on sex-disaggregated data or on analysis. • Organize activities to improve the coordination between producers: raise the awareness for the importance of collecting sex-disaggregated data.
Wishes • Have more completed sex-disaggregated data. • Use these data to fight against gender inequalities.