Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística

About - Social indicators of women in Brazil - 3rd Edition

In 2013, the United Nations Statistical Commission organized the Minimum Set of Gender Indicators (MSGI), comprising quantitative and qualitative indicators that reflect the effort of systematization of the information destined to the national production and international harmonization of statistics of countries and regions, related to gender equality and empowerment of women and girls.

With the release of the third edition of this report, the IBGE makes public the results of most quantitative indicators produced for this theme in Brazil, thus contributing to the production of systematized gender statistics for Brazil. The information is organized according to five domains - Economic empowerment, Education, Health and related services, Public life and decision taking, and Human rights of women and girls - and provide an overview of gender inequalities in Brazil, with valuable elements for the reflection of scholars and formulators of public policies. To do this, of the existing 51 quantitative indicators, 34 were built, complemented by other ten correlated to each theme, some of them as proxies of the original indicators, though without available data in Brazil.

To build the national indicators, data from the IBGE were used, like the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Continuous PNAD), Population Projections by Sex and Age, Vital Statistics, National Survey of Health (PNS), Survey of Basic State Information (Estadic) and Survey of Basic Municipal Information (Munic), as well as data from external sources like the Ministry of Health, Presidency of the Republic, National Congress, Superior Electoral Court (TSE), National Council of Justice (CNJ) and National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP).

This study includes additional perspectives to the indicators proposed by the MSGI. The data were disaggregated by sex and, whenever possible, by Federation Unit and other characteristics, in order to reveal iniquities. It should be highlighted that, in the Brazilian case, “other characteristics” assume a relevant role, as shown in the time series of social indicators that point out that color or race, whether it is a disabled person or not and whether living in urban or rural area, among other constraints, can have a significant impact in people´s lives, reinforcing inequalities.

In addition to the report, the IBGE portal also shows the complete table plan, as well as the technical notes of the study, which present, for each theme, the conception of the indicators (produced according to metadata provided by the United Nations, proxies or complementary ones), the statistical sources used and the respective calculation methodology. In the table plan available, the tables follow the numbering of the MSGI indicators and are organized in thematic folders. The tables with complementary indicators, with a different numbering, are also allocated according to the theme.