Build Your Own Gender Indexmy.genderindex.org

Christopher Garroway, OECD Development Centre

Seth Flaxman, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Gender Equality and Progress in Societies

12 March 2010

OECD Headquarters, Paris

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Build Your Own Gender Index: Visualizing Social Institutions

Enabling users to make decisions for themselves about which factors they value makes the underlying data and resulting ranking more meaningful and personal to the user.

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Build Your Own Gender Index: Visualizing Social Institutions

1 The SIGI Composite Indicator

2 The “Build Your Own Ranking” Tool: my.genderindex.org

3 Beyond SIGI: underlying ideas

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SIGI: The Social Institutions and Gender Index

• Innovative measure of social institutions that are root causes of gender inequality

• 124 countries (102 ranked) -- 5 sub-indices / 12 variables• 3+ years of research and analysis, country notes, coding, scoring…

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“Traditional” tools for sharing data produced at OECD

OECD.Stat• Metadata• Definitions• Exportable

in .txt, .csv, .xls…

Can be useful for researchers….

IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR!

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New tool to share, explore, and explain data produced at OECD

My Gender Index

• Change weight of different social institutions in index

• Drop social institutions from calculations

• Filter by region

• Ranking and map update automatically

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Drop Variables and See How Countries Change Rank

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Change Weights and Look at Ranking Details

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Filter Data by Regions and Explore Issues of Concern

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Conclusions

• Encourage exploration of your data by specialists and the public

• Embrace the growing public data movement: data.gov, data.gov.uk, Google Public Data, etc.

• Join and harness the power of a motivated community of open source developers

• How do we measure our own progress and success?

Thank you!

christopher.garroway@oecd.org

seth.flaxman@epfl.ch

genderindex.org

my.genderindex.org