TECHNICAL NOTES:
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE GEI
1. Dimensions and indicators
• Empowerment (% of women in technical
positions, % of women in management
and government positions, % of women
in parliaments, % of women in ministerial
posts).
• Economic activity (income gap, activity
rate gap).
• Education (literacy rate gap, primary
school enrolment rate gap, secondary
school enrolment rate gap, tertiary educa
tion enrolment rate gap).
2. Gaps
To construct the gaps in those indicators not presented as such in the original sources, the following operation was carried out. In the first place, percentages for men were calculated by difference with those for women:
- % of men in technical positions,
- % of men in management and government
positions,
- % of men in parliaments,
- % of men in ministerial posts.
Secondly, for each country the weight of the
female population in relation to male population was
calculated for the relevant age ranges (over
19 years old, except for the economically ac
tive population indicator, for which over 14
years old was used).
Weight of female population = % of female
population / % of male population
The gap was calculated for each indicator
for each country, with the rate for women
as the numerator and the rate for men as the
denominator, weighted by the inverse of the
weight of the female population.(1)
% female rate * (weight of female popula
tion)-1 / % male rate
3. Construction of the components for each dimension of the index
For each dimension the average of the indicators of the gaps was calculated, but no values
were assigned for those countries lacking available information for half the indicators of the dimension.
4. Construction of the index
The index was calculated as an average of the
values obtained in the three dimensions (the
average of the gaps in each dimension).
(1) The value 0 was re-codified as 0.01 to allow
algebraic calculations. At the other end of the
scale, values greater than 1 were re-codified as 1,
since this is the normative limit proposed in accordance to the purposes of the index.
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