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Gender equality indicators: public concerns and public policies : proceedings of a symposium held at Statistics Canada, March 26 and 27, 1998 / Edited by Leroy O. Stone, Zeynep Karman and W. Pamela Yaremko....: SW21-36/1998E

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  • Canada. Status of Women Canada.
TitleGender equality indicators: public concerns and public policies : proceedings of a symposium held at Statistics Canada, March 26 and 27, 1998 / Edited by Leroy O. Stone, Zeynep Karman and W. Pamela Yaremko. Issued jointly by Health Canada, Human Resources Development Canada and Statistics Canada.
Publication typeMonograph
Language[English]
Other language editions[French]
FormatPhysical text
Other formatsDigital text-[English]
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  • Contents: Importance of gender equality indicators to the business of government.--Gender equality indicators: tools to improve policy development and program design.--Contributions of Statistics Canada to gender sensitive data.--Gender equality indicators and gender-based analysis.--Key concepts in the identification of best practices for development and use of indicators of gender equality.--Paradigms implicit in social and economic indicators.--Procedures for developing gender-sensitive statistics: the case of Sweden.--Gender equality indices in human development reports: concepts, measurements and impact.--Thematic summary of workshop and plenary session.--Harnessing the numbers: potential use of gender equality indicators for the performance, measurement and promotion.--Social and economic indicators: underlying assumption, purposes and values.--Using gender equality indicators: steps to best practices.--Conceptual issues, technical problems and statistical integration questions in work on gender equality indicators.--New challenges in the improvement of gender statistics.
Publishing information
  • Ottawa - Ontario : Status of Women Canada 1999.
BindingSoftcover
Description202p. : graphs, references, tables ; 28 cm.
ISBN0-662-27418-0
Catalogue number
  • SW21-36/1998E
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