New Data from CWW in West Africa for 2022!

Counting Women’s Work has released estimates from four more countries, plus a second set of Senegal estimates for an additional year. The other countries are Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, and Mali. The previously released countries are included with the new releases in a complete datafile. Please go to https://www.countingwomenswork.org/data to get the new and improved file.

The new unpaid care work estimates from West Africa are all based on an experimental, condensed time use diary that was included in each country’s Harmonized Survey on Households Living Standards in 2018 (Enquête Harmonisée sur le Conditions de Vie des Ménages, or EHCVM).

We hope to release more countries in 2023.

"National Time Transfer Accounts: On the gender gap and unpaid work in the Global South" Online Symposium

Led by the Colombia NTA/CWW research team, a group of scholars and practitioners met to share their research and experience in the measurement of unpaid care work in the Global South. The discussions covered specific country results, disaggregated country results, comparative results with a few countries, lessons learned across all of the countries in the project, and a look into the role of national statistical offices in collecting data on unpaid care work and turning it into actionable results.

Speakers and Topics:

• Latif Dramani, U. Thiès/CREG-CREFAT, Senegal. Presented comparative results from Senegal and Burkina Faso, demonstrating size of unpaid care work economy and how large this economy is compared to the market economy. Comparing/contrasting results from the two contries.

• B. Piedad Urdinola, U. Nacional, Colombia. Deep dive into results on unpaid care work from the recently available Colombian Time Use survey of 2016-2017, with results broken down by household structure.

• Jordana Jesus, U. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Innovative methodology used to estimate complete set of unpaid work age profiles for Brazil using only one survey item on unpaid housework and imputed care estimates based on regional comparative data.

• Gretchen Donehower, U.C. Berkeley, United States. Overview of cross-country results from CWW and what they mean for policy.

• Juan Daniel Oviedo, National Statistics Office – DANE, Colombia. Described Colombia’s commitment to collecting gender data including high-quality time use surveys, and demonstrated what is learned from such data collection and how it is used by stakeholders including policymakers, researchers, and civil society.

Moderator

• Jorge Tovar, U. de Los Andes, Colombia. Led the discussion into how these estimates can be used, how it shapes the global discussion on unpaid care work, and what the limitations and opportunities are from the research presented.

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Time Use, Policy, and Economic Growth Online Symposium

In collaboration with the Population Reference Bureau, the Counting Women’s Work project held an online webcast to explore policy applications of research into time use and unpaid care work. The discussion was policy focused, with the main questions revolving around how estimates like CWW’s National Time Transfer Accounts can impact policy. We were honored to host several speakers who are long-time participants in the Counting Women’s Work project and one chief national statistician who gave his perspective on these important issues from outside the project.

Speakers:

• Morne Oosthuizen, DPRU/ University of Cape Town

• Latif Dramani, CREG-CREFAT

• Beatriz Urdinola Piedad, National University of Colombia-Bogotá

• Juan Daniel Oviedo, National Statistics Office – DANE, Colombia

Moderators

• Gretchen Donehower, Counting Women’s Work

• Marlene Lee, Population Reference Bureau

In preparation for the session, the Population Reference Bureau prepared a fact sheet featuring CWW research in Vietnam, Colombia, and Senegal. The fact sheet features definitions and basic methodology and shows how CWW research helps policymakers understand gender gaps in work and income, as well as how they differ by socioeconomic status, or urban/rural residence.

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Happy New Year Data from CWW, January, 2020!

To ring in the New Year, Counting Women’s Work has released estimates from four more countries: Mexico, India, Vietnam, and Mauritius. The six previously released countries (Colombia, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, United States, and Uruguay) are included with the new releases in a complete ten-country datafile. Please go to https://www.countingwomenswork.org/data to get the new and improved file.

We hope to release more countries in the coming months.

KIHASA-EWC Conference, December 3, 2019, Seoul, Korea

Members of the Counting Women’s Work and National Transfer Accounts projects presented research at a joint conference in Seoul, hosted by the Korea Institute of Health and Social Welfare (KIHASA) of Korea and the East-West Center (EWC) of the United States.

The theme of the one-day conference is “Challenges and Policy Responses to Population Aging.” Gretchen Donehower, the principal investigator of CWW will speak on unpaid care work, while members of NTA teams from the United States, Korea, Japan, and Spain will discuss what NTA estimates tell us about how aging will impact productivity, consumption, public and private transfer systems, and economic growth, and what policies are available to maximize desirable outcomes.

Web links:

KIHASA: https://www.kihasa.re.kr/english/main.do

EWC: https://www.eastwestcenter.org

NTA: http://www.ntaccounts.org

Donehower draft working paper

African Population Conference November 18-22, Entebbe, Uganda

Researchers affiliated with Counting Women's Work and the National Transfer Accounts projects will be presenting research at the 8th annual conference of the Union of African Population Scientists in Entebbe, Uganda. Some of the presentations are listed below, from the preliminary program. Please see the conference website for final details: http://8apc2019.org/home/

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Session: Monday, November 18 / Lundi, 18 Novembre 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Theatre Hall - Ground Floor, First DD and Prospects for the Second DD in Africa • Vieillissement et deuxième dividende démographique

Paper: Déficit du cycle de vie et capture du dividende démographique en Afrique Subsaharienne : Nécessité d’une autonomisation des femmes sénégalaises • Lesfran Sam Wanilo Agbahoungba, LAREG (Université de Parakou) & CREG (Sénégal); Latif Dramani*, CREG-CREFAT; Edem Akpo, CREG-CREFAT

Session: Tuesday, November 19 / Mardi, 19 Novembre 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Kyoga Hall - Ground Floor, Role of Gender in Accelerating the Demographic Dividend • Rôle du genre dans l'accélération du dividende démographique

Paper: Capital humain et Capture du dividende démographique au Sénégal : Une approche genre • Edmée Marthe Y. Ndoye*, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar; Latif Dramani, CREG-CREFAT

Paper: Adding Unpaid Care Work into the Analysis of Demographic Dividends • Gretchen Donehower*, University of California, Berkeley

Session: Tuesday, November 19 / Mardi, 19 Novembre 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Kuku Hall - First Floor, African Models for The Demographic Dividend – Practical Interventions, Lessons and Policy Options • Modèles africains pour le dividende démographique - Interventions pratiques, leçons et options politiques

Paper: Understanding the Demographic Dividend in Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia: A Prospect or Missed Opportunity? • Stephen O. Kwankye*, University of Ghana; Eric Arthur, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST); Faustina Frempong-Ainguah, Regional Institute for Population Studies/University of Ghana; Eugenia Amporfu, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi

Session: Wednesday, November 20 / Mercredi, 20 Novembre 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Executive Room - Ground FloorGender Dividend • Le dividende du genre

Paper: Demographic Dynamics, Gender Dividends and the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence from Nigeria • Olanrewaju Olaniyan*, University of Ibadan; Noah Olasehinde, University of Ibadan; Osaretin Adonri, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); Andat Dasogot, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Session: Thursday, November 21 / Jeudi, 21 Novembre 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, Executive Room - Ground Floor, Education, Employment and Transformation of Gender Relations • Education, Emploi et Transformation Des Rapports De Genre Au Sein Des Ménages

Paper: Travaux domestiques et inégalités genre dans l’éducation dans les pays en développement d’Afrique Subsaharienne: cas du Sénégal • Lesfran Sam Wanilo Agbahoungba*, LAREG (Université de Parakou) & CREG (Sénégal); Latif Dramani, CREG-CREFAT; Edem Akpo, CREG-CREFAT

Session: Friday, November 22 / Vendredi, 22 Novembre 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Elgon Hall - Ground Floor, The Use of Demographic Intelligence to Influence Development Policies • L'utilisation de l'intelligence démographique pour influencer les politiques de développement

Paper: National Transfer and Demographic Dividend: Application in West and Central Africa • Latif Dramani*, CREG-CREFAT; Edouard Talnan, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Paper: Demographic Dividend Monitoring in West and Central Africa • Edem Akpo*, CREG-CREFAT