07/24/2012 -
President Jim Kim announced the release of a new data portal focused on gender
issues at the recent “Closing
the Gender Data Gap” conference, held in Washington
DC on July 19. The website is a resource
center for gender equality data, with statistics, tools and reference materials
covering employment, access to productive activities, education, health, public
life and decision making, human rights, and demographic outcomes for women and
girls. As well as highlighting available data and indicators, the portal also
helps to better see the data gaps that exist in this important area.
The portal provides country,
regional and thematic dashboards, with key indicators displayed through
interactive visualizations. Create your own tables, charts, and maps using the DataBank
data retrieval system. Featured datasets and resources are drawn from the World
Development Indicators, national statistical agencies, databases of United
Nations Agencies, and surveys conducted of funded by the World Bank and are
organized around eight modules:
- Thematic data
featuring indicators related to dimensions of gender equality — economic
structures and access to resources; education; health and related
services; public life and decision-making; and human rights of women and
girls;
- Regional data
providing access to major statistics from UN agencies, regional
commissions, and World Bank regional departments;
- Microdata
for researchers, with gender-relevant microdata from surveys, and
links to a repository of survey
datasets;
- Tools
for analysis, from eAtlas
of Gender and ADePT
Gender to Little
Data Book on Gender and wbopendata
Stata module;
- Monitoring
progress with indicators selected to show country level
performance on gender equality;
- World
Bank lending data showing the extent to which World Bank projects are
“gender-informed”
- Guidelines
and training materials on a range of topics, from the broad rationale
for collecting gender-relevant data to sector-specific guidelines;
- a
“query data”
function giving access to time-series indicators relevant for gender
analysis, covering demographics, education, health, labor force, and
political participation, with the ability to create and share maps, tables
and charts.
Visit the portal at data.worldbank.org/gender. We’d
love to hear your feedback, or answer any questions: contact data@worldbank.org.