Context

This dataset contains all the stats of Gender Statistics 2022 - World Bank.

Details

The Gender Statistics database is a comprehensive source for the latest sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics covering demography, education, health, access to economic opportunities, public life and decision-making, and agency.

Wage and salaried workers (employees) are those workers who hold the type of jobs defined as "paid employment jobs," where the incumbents hold explicit (written or oral) or implicit employment contracts that give them a basic remuneration that is not directly dependent upon the revenue of the unit for which they work. Contraceptive prevalence rate is the percentage of women who are practicing, or whose sexual partners are practicing, at least one modern method of contraception. It is usually measured for women ages 15-49 who are married or in union. Modern methods of contraception include female and male sterilization, oral hormonal pills, the intra-uterine device (IUD), the male condom, injectables, the implant (including Norplant), vaginal barrier methods, the female condom and emergency contraception.

Number of male sole proprietors is the number of newly registered sole proprietors owned by female individuals in the calendar year. A sole proprietorship is a business entity owned and managed by a single individual who is indistinguishable from the business and personally liable.

Percentage of women aged 15–49 who have gone through partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons. Each wealth quintile represents one fifth of households with quintile 1 being the poorest 20 percent of households and quintile 5 being the richest 20 percent of households. Completeness of birth registration is the percentage of children under age 5 whose births were registered at the time of the survey. The numerator of completeness of birth registration includes children whose birth certificate was seen by the interviewer or whose mother or caretaker says the birth has been registered. Women who own house both alone and jointly (% of women age 15-49): Q4 is the percentage of women age 15-49 who alone as well as jointly with someone else own a house which is legally registered with their name or cannot be sold without their signature. "Both alone and jointly" Implies a woman owns a house alone and another house jointly with someone else. Each wealth quintile represents one fifth of households with quintile 1 being the poorest 20 percent of households and quintile 5 being the richest 20 percent of households.

Number of infants dying before reaching one year of age. Male population between the ages 75 to 79.

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to make a payment from an account, or report using the internet to pay bills or to buy something online, in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report paying bills, sending or receiving remittances, receiving payments for agricultural products, receiving government transfers, receiving wages, or receiving a public sector pension directly from or into a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months, male (% age 15+).

Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population.

Metadata

Coverage & Extent

• Granularity List : National
• Temporal Coverage : 1959 - 2021
• Periodicity : Annual
• Acronym : Gender Stats
• Recommended Citation: Gender Statistics, The World Bank
• Languages Supported : English
• Source Type : World Bank Group
• Source: : Gender Statistics, The World Bank
• Harvest Source : World Bank Data API
• Dates
  • First Published Date : Jul 18, 2010
  • Last Updated on : Jun 22, 2022
• Update Frequency : Quarter

Download

kaggle API Command !kaggle datasets download -d azminetoushikwasi/gender-statistics-wb

Disclaimer

The data collected are all publicly available and it's intended for educational purposes only.

Acknowledgement

https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0037654