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21st International Experts Meeting on Time Use and Unpaid Work

Statistics
Gender affairs
25 September 2023|Event

The twenty-first International Meeting of Information Specialists on Time Use and Unpaid Work will be held in Santiago, on September 25, 2023. Discussions will focus on the importance of time use measurements for the formulation and monitoring of policies to move towards the Care Society.

This Meeting convenes national statistical offices and machineries for the advancement of women, among other institutions. It will take place, for the first time, at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile, on September 25, 2023, within the framework of the XII Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas.

The International Experts Meeting on Time Use and Unpaid Work (TUM) is organized by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI), the National Institute for Women of Mexico (INMUJERES), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), and the ECLAC Division for Gender Affairs. The main objective of this Meeting is to promote the technical exchange of recent experiences among the countries of the Latin American and Caribbean region that have surveys, modules, or sets of questions for measuring time use. The above, in order to promote the transfer of knowledge to incorporate the lessons learned in future measurements and to foster its use to inform the design of public policies on care and gender equality.

Time Use Surveys are among the most powerful statistical tools to make visible the integral contribution of women to the economy and to shed light on the structure of inequalities rooted in the gendered division of labor. To the date, 23 Latin American and Caribbean countries have carried out at least one official time use measurement.

25 Sep 2023

  • Video of the meeting

    09:00 to 17:45

    XXI International Meeting of Information Specialists on Time Use and Unpaid Work (RUT)

  • Opening Remarks: Time-use measurements as a fundamental contribution to move towards the Care Society

    09:05 to 09:30

    Moderation: Rolando Ocampo, Director of the Statistics Division of ECLAC

    ▪ José Manuel Salazar, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
    ▪ Graciela Márquez, President of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Mexico (online) and Mauricio Rodríguez Abreu, Chief of Sociodemographic Statistics (INEGI), Mexico
    ▪ Nadine Gasman, President of the National Women's Institute (INMUJERES), Mexico (online)
    ▪ Francesca Grum, Deputy Director and Chief, Demographic and Social Statistics Section, United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) (online)
    ▪ Gabriela Rosero, Head of Office UN Women Chile

  • Session 1: Recent results on time use in Latin America and the Caribbean: information for care and gender equality policies

    09:30 to 11:20

    Moderation: Lucía Scuro, Senior Social Affairs Officer, ECLAC Division for Gender Affairs

    Round 1. Production and Dissemination of Time-Use Statistics
    Marco Lavagna, National Institute of Statistics and Censuses of Argentina
    Brenda Miranda, National Institute of Statistics of Guatemala
    Freddy Araya Arroyo, National Institute of Statistics and Census of Costa Rica
    Diego Aboal, National Institute of Statistics of Uruguay (to be confirmed).
    Piedad Urdinola, National Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia

    Round 2. Use of time use information for equality policies
    Cristian Silva, Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity, Argentina
    Natalia Reyes, National Institute of Women, Uruguay

    Dialogue and questions

  • Session 2: Current information needs in the context of building National Care Systems

    11:45 to 13:00

    Moderation: Andrea Llerena, Regional Advisor on Data and Statistics, UN Women Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

    Round 1. National statistical offices representative presentations
    Agustín Arce, National Institute of Statistics of Chile
    Mauricio Rodríguez Abreu, National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico
    Miosotis Rivas Peña, National Statistics Office of the Dominican Republic
    Rachel Jacob, Grenada Central Statistical Office

    Round 2. Presentation remarks from machineries for the advancement of women
    Lylian Miren, Ministry of Women and Gender Equity, Chile
    Celia Aguilar National Institute for Women, Mexico

    Dialogue and questions

  • Session 3: Valuation of unpaid domestic and care work in the framework of the national accounts: potentialities and challenges

    14:30 to 15:40

    Moderation: Celia Aguilar, General Director of Planning and Evaluation, INMUJERES, Mexico

    Interventions by national statistical representatives 
    Freddy Araya Arroyo, National Institute of Statistics and Census of Costa Rica
    Rosa María Licea, National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico
    Piedad Urdinola, National Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia
    Giselle Pablovsky, National Institute of Statistics and Censuses of Argentina

    Dialogue and questions

  • Session 4: New dynamics in the use of time and future methodological challenges

    16:00 to 17:15

    Speakers presentations
    Carolina Miranda, National Secretariat of Care and Family, Ministry of Social Development and Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger, Brazil (online), and Andrea Diniz da Silva, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE, Brazil
    Giselle Pablovsky, National Institute of Statistics and Censuses of Argentina
    Iliana Vaca Trigo , UNSD (online)
    Halim Brizan, CARICOM-Regional Statistics Programme

    Dialogue and questions

  • Closing

    17:15 to 17:45

    ▪ Celia Aguilar, General Director of Planning and Evaluation, INMUJERES, Mexico 
    ▪ Graciela Márquez, President of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Mexico 
    ▪ Gabriela Rosero, Head of Office UN Women Chile 
    ▪ Ana Güezmes, Director of the Gender Affairs Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

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