EIGE’s Expert Gender Statistics, Ligia Nobrega, attends the Conference of Smart Metadata for Official Statistics 2024 in Paris.
EIGE highlights the importance of metadata in gender statistics and emphasizes its role in providing essential information for understanding, interpreting, and evaluating data quality.
EIGE’s contribution to the discussion underlines the necessity for structured metadata which accompanies each dataset to ensure a consistent, accurate, and timely measurement of gender equality.
Furthermore, EIGE aims to create a mechanism to enable users to accurately interpret and utilize the associated statistics, thus enhancing the effectiveness of gender statistics collection, production, and dissemination.