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2006 2006 Population ByPopulation By--censuscensus

Application of Gender Mainstreaming and

Key Statistics on Women and Men

Womens Commission

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: 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001Population Census: 1966, 1976, 1986, 1996, 2006 Population By-census

Special features

Huge scale

Enables data on small geographical area and on particular population sub-groups to be compiled

BackgroundBackground

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Population Census Population By-census

Complete headcount ()Only a very large scale sample

survey (long form only)

Long and short form

Similar in contents andfeatures to Population Census

BackgroundBackground

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Detailed enquiry on one-tenth (1/10) of the quarters in Hong Kong

()Data collection period: 15 July 1 August 2006 (18 days)

About 5 000 temporary field workers visited 230 000 sampled households to conduct interviews

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Results has wide Four areas identifiedapplications in

Questionnairethe community Important that Recruitment

gender mainstreaming TrainingMany facets of should be the fieldwork applied in the Publicityoperation may By-censusaffect different sectors

Target : Respondents

Extensive consultation conducted to determine the questionnaire content and design the flow

Apply gender mainstreaming Adjust gender-sensitive questions Ensure quality and gender neutrality of data collected

QuestionnaireQuestionnaire

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QuestionnaireQuestionnaire

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View Users Household Head Stereotype gender role in the family Useful to understand social

trends, in particular the family formation pattern

Avoid misunderstanding or misinterpretation as gender specific Data can continue to be collected

Measures

Highlight to respondents during the interviewing process that the household head can be any member, whether male or female, in the household

Allow joint headship/multiple household heads

Re-arrange order of related questions to make it more gender-neutral

ResultsResults

Single head households

Multi-head households

Overall

Percentage share in all households 84.5% 15.5% 100.0%

() 1 924 1 003 1 602Sex ratio (No. of males per 1000 females)

1 - Table 1 - Percentage share of households and sex ratio of household

heads from single head and multi-head households

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ResultsResults

Combination of sex of household heads

No. of households %

One male & One female 317 283 93.1

Two Males 12 107 3.6

Two Females 11 276 3.3

Total 340 666 100.0

2 - Table 2 - Two-head Households by combination of sex

of household heads

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( )Target : Temporary field worker applicants (teachers of primary and secondary schools and post-secondary students)

Process: Selection

(Promotion Application )

RecruitmentRecruitment

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Objective criteria (like past experience in survey work)

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Gender is NOT a selectioncriterion in the pastcensuses/by-censuses andalso in 06BC

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The number of female applicants was higher than male applicants for different types of applicants

The gender profiles of applicants were generally in line with the gender profiles of all teachers and post-secondary students in HK

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RecruitmentRecruitment

Number of Applicants by Type and Sex

4500040000 Female Male 38298

35000 3179830000

41874

33558

2500020000

1500010000

35765000 17600

School Teacher Post-secondary Student All

Type

The results of recruitment showed that the number of female appointees was slightly higher than male appointees for different types of applicants

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RecruitmentRecruitment

Number of Appointees by Type and Sex3000

Female Male2500

2000

2341 22802516 2422

1500

1000

500175 142

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School Teacher Post-secondary Student All

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Target : Temporary field worke

Approach: Train-the-trainer + ()Trainers: In-house staff

+ Chief Enumerators(who are teachers)

+ Materials: Film + Manuals

Venues: Schools

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TrainingTraining

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Integrate gender perspectives in the training programme in particular on the following:

Safety of the temporary field workers

General measures applicable for both sexes and specific measures for male and female workers

Strengthen teaching materials to ensure that data collected are gender neutral

Skills to interview male and female respondents

Include gender neutral cases in the training materials, e.g. homemaker not necessarily a female respondent and driver not necessarily a male respondent

TrainingTraining

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Target : The general public, in particular respondents to the By-census

Programme: A series of activities including press conferences, TV and radio programmes, advertisements, posters, etc. ( / )Apply gender mainstreaming when designing and implementing the publicity activities (e.g. Publicity items presented enumerator could be male or female, and the design of uniform using fabric of proper materials for both female and male enumerators)5

PublicityPublicity

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Population Pyramids

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Note: The population pyramid for 1996 was shown in lines while the population pyramid for 2006 was shown in bars.

Age Group

85+

80 - 8475 - 7970 - 7465 - 6960 - 6455 - 5950 - 5445 - 4940 - 4435 - 3930 - 3425 - 2920 - 2415 - 1910 - 14

5 - 90 - 4

400 300 200 100 0 100 200 300 400

Thousands

Male Female

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Sex Ratio

Number of males per 1 000 females1200

10371000 1012

1000 960 961911

800

600

400

200

01996 2001 2006

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Thousands 45

41.0 40

35.1 34.3 35

30

25 20.2 19.9

20 18.5 16.1 16.6

15 10.8 10.2

10

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01986 1991 1996 2001 2006

Male Female

One-way Permit Holders Entering Hong Kong by Sex

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Age

3531.130.0 30.2

30 29.128.0 28.126.9 27.525.3 26.2

25

20

15

10

5

01986 1991 1996 2001 2006

Male

#

# FemaleProvisional figures

0

Median Age at First Marriage by Sex

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Age Specific Fertility Rate

r 1 000 group

160

140

Age group of mother at childbirth120

25 - 29100

30 - 3480

60

20 - 2440

35 - 3940 - 4420

15 - 19

01981 1986 1991 1996 2001 2006

45 - 49

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No. of live births pewomen in each age

Provisional figures21

Thousands 70

60

50

40

30

20

10

0

F M F M F M

1996 2001 2006

Working

Home-makers

Retired persons

Others

Single Parents by Sex and Economic Activity Status

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Population Aged 15 and Over by Educational Attainment and Sex

Thousands3 500

3 000

2 500

2 000

1 500

1 000

500

0 F M F M F M

1996 2001 2006

No schooling/Pre-primary Primary

Upper Secondary/Sixth Form

Post-secondary

Lower secondary

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Labour Force Participation Rate by Age Group and Sex

100

90

80

70

60

50

40

30

20

10

015 - 24 25 - 34 35 - 44 45 - 54 55 - 64 65 +

1996

2001

2006

Male

Female

Age

Percentage

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Industry

40.7% 59.3%Manufacturing

9.1% 90.9%Construction

51.5% 48.5%Wholesale, retail and import/

export trades, restaurants and hotels 24.9% 75.1%

ransport, storage and communications

42.1% 57.9%

Financing, insurance,real estate and business services

65.8% 34.2%

Community, social andpersonal services

24.5% 75.5%

Others

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Male

Total no. of persons

325 066

230 227

916 217

391 285

571 378

905 425

26 138

Female

Employed Persons by Industry and Sex, 2006

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Occupation

30.0% 70.0%

Managers and administrators38.8% 61.2%

Professionals

48.4% 51.6%

Associate professionals70.2% 29.8%

Clerks

49.3% 50.7%

Services workers and shop sales workers 9.0% 91.0%

Craft and related workers

9.2% 90.8%

lant and machine operators and assemblers 62.3% 37.7%

Elementary occupations

30.4% 69.6%

Others

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Male

Total no. of persons

361 891

205 435

542 309

567 964

550 855

286 007

208 409

633 227

9 639

Female

Employed Persons by Occupation and Sex, 2006

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Male

30,000

25,000

20,000

15,000

10,000

5,000

01996 2001 2006

HK$ HK$30,000

Female25,000

20,000

15,000

10,000

5,000

01996 2001 2006

Managers and administrators

Services workers and shop sales workers

Elementary occupations

Overall

Median Monthly Employment Earnings of Employed Persons

by Selected Occupation and Sex

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