UNSD-SPC-ADB-UN Regional Workshop on Gender Statistics and Human Rights Reporting 4 – 8 August 2014, Nadi, Fiji

Gender Statistics on Work in PICTs

Kim RobertsonGender Statistics Advisor (nearly), Human Development Programme Secretariat of the Pacific CommunityNoumea, New Caledonialindap@spc.int (www.spc.int.hdp)

Data Sources• Household Labour Force Survey (Fiji, Tonga, RMI)• Census of Population and Housing • Household Income and Expenditure Survey • DHS

• Business surveys • Superannuation funds• Taxation data • Labour • Immigration

Challenges• Concept of “work” or “main activity”• Is subsistence work or survival?• No Time Use survey programme• Very limited data on unpaid work • Use of classifications at the most detailed level • Accurate data on wages and earnings, hours worked • Part time employment and secondary employment • Enterprises operated by the household • Intermittent work – work for school fees • Migrant labour • Getting access to the data • No regional standard – difficult to compare rates, indicators

Men are more likely than women to be engaged in vulnerable cash employment in Fiji

Source: Fiji 2007 Census (10 years and over), Kiribati 2010 Census, Solomon Is 2010 Census (14 years and over), Samoa 2011 Census, Vanuatu 2009 Census.

Proportion of own-account and contributing family workers in total employment, women, men, 2010

8%

21%

11%

3%

15%

1%

18%

7%

3%

11%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%Women Men

Vanuatu

Solomon Is

Samoa

Kiribati

Fiji

Women are more likely than men to be engaged in vulnerable employment in the Solomon IslandsProportion of subsistence, own-account and contributing family workers in total employment, women, men, 2010

Source: Fiji 2007 Census (10 years and over), Kiribati 2010 Census, Solomon Is 2010 Census (14 years and over), Samoa 2011 Census, Vanuatu 2009 Census.

14%

27%

40%

25%

38%

10%

22%

6%

37%

32%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%Women Men

Vanuatu

Solomon Is

Samoa

Kiribati

Fiji