Bridging the Gender Data Gap: Using Census Data to Understand Gender Inequalities Across the UK

缩小性别数据差距：利用人口普查数据了解英国各地的性别不平等

• 批准号: ES/Z502753/1
• 负责人: Caitlin Schmid
• 金额: $ 33.93万
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FZ502753%2F1
• 关键词: Bridging; Gender; Data; Gap; Using

Gender inequalities remain a persistent problem in the UK. The availability of gender or sex disaggregated data is critical for policy, research, and advocacy to understand and address these inequalities, yet at present there remain significant data gaps. The UK census provides a once-in-a-decade opportunity to address these gaps by leveraging population data at different geographical levels and protected characteristics.The proposed work will facilitate the discovery and use of census data for gender equality analysis across UK local areas, while demonstrating how they help bridge gender data gaps. The funding will allow a range of new users to engage in activities that promote awareness of the wide variety of multivariate census data for such analyses.Building on our expertise, we will deliver activities and resources in line with the funding call:training and networking related to the use of census data infrastructure for gender equality analysis and to address gender data gaps.guidance on how to use census data for gender equality research and advocacy.research-ready and linked dataset measuring spatial variation in gender equality levels across the UK.communications and engagement to facilitate the use of data for gender equality analysis, particularly across the UK censuses collectively.The Global Institute for Women's Leadership (GIWL) will deliver these in partnership with the Women's Budget Group, who run the Local Data Project aimed at strengthening the capacity of women's organisations for using data for advocacy. In May 2023, we co-hosted an event on the potential of the England/ Wales census 2021 in bridging the gender data gap. The morning panel was attended by 112 representatives from the women's sector, research/policy community, and public with over 1,100 views online. In the afternoon, we delivered a data workshop with 30 delegates from women's organisations. The attendance and feedback signal great appetite for additional workshops to explore the census data from a gender perspective.The ESRC funds will be used to run in-person workshops across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland targeting women's organisations, local authorities, and early-career academics to support analysis of gender and regional inequalities. Our proposal is unique in two ways. Firstly, we offer an explicitly gendered perspective on census data to engage new users who have less data analysis experience and are therefore less aware of the value of the census for understanding gender and regional inequality in the UK. Secondly, we will offer access and a demonstration of a new research-ready dataset currently being created by GIWL to measure gender equality levels across UK local areas. This dataset draws heavily on the UK census, exemplifying how these data can be combined with survey and administrative data for social science research.We will produce targeted user guidance that will be publicly accessible on our website, along with the new research-ready dataset. Further, we will deliver workshops to international organisations specialising in gender equality indices to promote the strength of the UK data landscape and demonstrate how national censuses can be used to create subnational indices.

性别不平等仍然是英国的一个长期问题。提供性别或按性别分列的数据对于了解和解决这些不平等现象的政策、研究和宣传至关重要，但目前仍存在重大的数据缺口。联合王国人口普查提供了一个十年一次的机会，通过利用不同地理级别和受保护特征的人口数据来解决这些差距。拟议的工作将促进发现和使用人口普查数据进行联合王国地方地区的性别平等分析，同时展示它们如何帮助弥合性别数据差距。这笔资金将使一系列新用户能够参与各种活动，提高对用于此类分析的各种多元普查数据的认识。基于我们的专业知识，我们将根据资金需求提供活动和资源：就使用人口普查数据基础设施进行性别平等分析和弥补性别数据差距开展培训和建立联系。指导如何使用人口普查数据进行性别平等研究和宣传。测量联合王国各地性别平等水平空间差异的现成和关联数据集。全球妇女领导能力研究所将与妇女预算小组合作提供这些服务，后者负责实施地方数据项目，旨在加强妇女组织利用数据进行宣传的能力。2023年5月，我们共同举办了一场关于2021年英格兰/威尔士人口普查在弥合性别数据差距方面的潜力的活动。来自妇女部门、研究/政策界和公众的112名代表参加了上午的小组讨论，网上浏览量超过1 100次。下午，我们与来自妇女组织的30名代表举行了一个数据研讨会。出席率和反馈表明，人们非常希望举办更多的研讨会，从性别角度探讨人口普查数据。ESRC的资金将用于在英格兰、威尔士、苏格兰和北方爱尔兰举办面对面的研讨会，目标是妇女组织、地方当局和早期职业学者，以支持对性别和地区不平等的分析。我们的建议在两个方面是独一无二的。首先，我们提供了一个明确的性别视角的人口普查数据，以吸引新用户谁拥有较少的数据分析经验，因此不太了解人口普查的价值，了解性别和地区不平等在英国。其次，我们将提供访问和演示一个新的研究准备数据集目前正在创建的GIWL来衡量整个英国地方地区的性别平等水平。该数据集在很大程度上借鉴了英国人口普查，举例说明了这些数据如何与社会科学研究的调查和行政数据相结合。我们将制作有针对性的用户指南，该指南将与新的研究准备数据集一起沿着在我们的网站上公开访问。此外，我们将为专门从事性别平等指数的国际组织举办研讨会，以促进英国数据格局的优势，并展示如何利用国家人口普查创建国家以下各级指数。