Gender Inequality Index

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	0 = both genders are fare equally 1 = one gender fares as porrly as possible in all dimensions The Gender Inequality Index ranges in between these two values.
Technical name	socstr_gdi_undp
Category	Social structure
Label	Gender Inequality Index
Related indicators	Human Development Index Global Gender Gap Index Gender Wage Gap

This indicator reflects inequality based on the gender in three dimensions: reproductive health, empowerment and labour market. The Gender Inequality Index is built similiar to the Humand Development Index but shows differences between women and men better.

Coding rules

Reproductive health is measured by maternal mortality rates and adolescent birth rates; empowerment by the proportion of adult females and males aged 25+ with some secondary education and proportion of parliamentary seats occupied of women and men; labour market by the labour force participation rate of both populations aged 15+.

Bibliographic info

Citation: United Nations Development Program. 2018a. Gender inequality index. Retrieved from http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/gender-inequality-index-gii

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Misc

Project manager(s): Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Karolin Meyer

Data release:

• Version 0.001: Initial release

Revisions: No revisions yet

Sources

• Teorell, Jan, Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein, Natalia Alvarado Pachon and Richard Svensson. 2019. The Quality of Government Standard Dataset, version Jan19. University of Gothenburg: The Quality of Government Institute. http://www.qog.pol.gu.se doi:10.18157/qogstdjan19