Resources Repository

This repository is a compilation of tools and guidelines to improve data collection, use, and dissemination of gender statistics. These resources also promote further exploration of gender data using microdata from World Bank datasets, subnational data from national statistical offices, regional or thematic data from other gender data portals, and sites with data visualizations and stories.

Guidelines
World Bank datasets
Gender Data Portals
National Statistics Offices
Data courses

Guidelines for collection, use, and dissemination of gender statistics

Develop a better understanding of international practices for the collection, use, and dissemination of sex-disaggregated data and gender indicators on a wide range of areas.

Planning and assessment tools

Guidelines for mainstreaming the gender perspective in statistical production(opens in a new tab)

This Guide is a regional standard adopted at the XII Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (SCA-ECLAC). These guidelines were developed by the working group on the preparation of a guide for mainstreaming the gender perspective in statistical during the 2022–2023 biennium.

Guidance Note for Producing and Disseminating Gender Factbooks (World Bank, 2024) (.pdf 1.02 MB)(opens in a new tab)

Improving the collection and use of administrative data on violence against women (UN Women and WHO, 2022) (.pdf 1.67 MB)(opens in a new tab)

Leveraging Gender Data to Accelerate Gender Equality (World Bank, 2023) (.pdf 2.77 MB)(opens in a new tab)

The Gender Data Playbook for Women's Financial Inclusion (WFID, 2023) (.pdf 1.97 MB)(opens in a new tab)

How to Assess Gender Data Gaps in the Economic Domain - Guidance and Baseline Results for the Strengthening Gender Statistics Project’s Partner Countries (World Bank, 2023) (.pdf 3.16 MB)(opens in a new tab)

How to Improve Indicators on Women’s Economic Empowerment: Guidance Note on Gender-Sensitive Survey Design and Implementation (World Bank, 2022) (.pdf 1.52 MB)(opens in a new tab)

Model Questionnaire: Measuring the nexus between gender and environment (UN Women, 2022) (.pdf 1.45 MB)(opens in a new tab)

Recommendations for improving individual-disaggregated data on asset ownership and labor outcomes (World Bank, 2021) (.pdf 4.23 MB)(opens in a new tab)

Measuring and Understanding Unpaid Care and Domestic Work- Household Care Survey Toolkit (OXFAM 2020, .pdf 6 MB)(opens in a new tab)

Explore this guide for measuring time use related to elderly and childcare and unpaid domestic work.

Agri-Gender Statistics Toolkit (FAO, 2016) (.pdf 1.97 MB)(opens in a new tab)

USAID Gender and Information Communication Technology (ICT) Survey Toolkit(opens in a new tab)

Read the guidelines for measuring ICT-related gender data.

Framework for assessing data and statistical capacity gaps for better gender statistics (Paris21, 2019) (.pdf 2.3 MB)(opens in a new tab)

Evidence-based Measures of Empowerment for Research on Gender Equality (EMERGE) Measurement Guidelines (UCSD website)(opens in a new tab)

Gender Data Navigator- Inventory of Gender-Related Survey Questions (IHSN website, 2014)(opens in a new tab)

Gender in the Criminal Justice System Assessment Tool (UNODC, 2010) (.pdf 1.48 MB)(opens in a new tab)

Review guidance on measuring gender in the criminal justice system.

WWAP Gender Sensitive Water Monitoring, Assessment and Reporting(opens in a new tab)

Gender Statistics Manual - Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics (UNSD)(opens in a new tab)

Standards for Collecting Sex Disaggregated Data for Gender Analysis (CGIAR) (.pdf 657.8Kb)(opens in a new tab)

Gender Data Compass (opens in a new tab)

Supply-Side Gender Disaggregated Data for Advancing Financial Inclusion: Insights and Areas for Further Research(opens in a new tab)

World Bank datasets

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Women, Business and the Law (WBL) examines laws differentiating men and women in ways that affect opportunities and incentives to work. WBL is the main source of information to measure and monitor SDG 5.1.1 on the existence of legal frameworks to promote, enforce and monitor equality and discrimination on the basis of sex.

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The Global Jobs Indicators Database, JOIN, presents more than 100 labor market indicators for 168 economies and 1,802 surveys. The indicators cover socio-demographics, labor force status, employment type, employment composition by sector and occupation, education level completed, hours worked, earnings, and also provide information on survey quality. The indicators are nationally representative and available for different types of workers. This includes workers in urban or rural areas, men and women, younger (age 15-24) and older (age 25-64) workers, or workers with lower and higher education.

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The Doing Business project provides measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional levels. The project recently expanded data collection to account for gender discriminatory practices in four areas: starting a business, registering property, enforcing contracts, and labor market regulation. NOTE: Doing Business has been discontinued as of 9/16/2021. Read the official announcement.(opens in a new tab)

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The Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) program provides technical assistance to national statistical offices (NSOs) in the design and implementation of multi-topic household surveys. Since its inception in the early 1980s, the LSMS program has worked with dozens of statistics offices around the world: generating high-quality data, incorporating innovative technologies and improved survey methodologies, and building technical capacity. The surveys are geo-referenced, computer-assisted, and use sensors for direct measurement. To date, more than 100 LSMS surveys have been produced in over 40 economies.

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The Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) project collaborates with the national statistics offices of partner economies in Sub-Saharan Africa to design and implement systems of multi-topic, nationally representative panel household surveys with a strong focus on agriculture. These surveys collected detailed information at the individual level to understand men and women's agricultural and other income activities.

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The Living Standards Measurement Study - Plus (LSMS+) project aims to improve the availability and quality of individual level data on ownership and rights of physical and financial assets; work and employment; and entrepreneurship, building on the UN Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE).(opens in a new tab) The LSMS+(opens in a new tab) project also supports methodological and analytical research on time use data through household survey experiments that compare traditional and new methods of data collection (self-reported or enumerator conducted time use modules versus use of technology).

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The Equality of Opportunity for Sexual and Gender Minorities (EQOSOGI) provides comparable cross-economy data on legal frameworks that impact sexual and gender minorities’ access to markets, services, and spaces in a economy and examines how those laws either enable or inhibit the inclusion of sexual and gender minorities.

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