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PRIORITYMEASURE98
“Generate knowledge and reliable and timely informationwithagender perspective anddisaggregated by sex, age and socioeconomic status, among other variables,
onAfro-descendent populations through participatory processes, paying attention to the international requirements and recommendations relating to the issue.”
Possible lines of action
1. Adapt national legislation for the inclusion of Afro-descendants in the national statistics system as a whole, including the institutional
arrangements needed to guarantee this population’s full and effective participation throughout the process of generating information;
2. Include questions to identify Afro-descendants in statistical data sources, in a consistent and comparable manner, respecting the
principle of self-identification; 3. Sponsor discussion sessions for defining a set of agreed indicators that reveal the discrimination and
racism suffered by these people; 4. Strengthen the technical capacities of Afro-descendants to access andmake active use of the available
information and to assess its impact on policies, and the capacities of State officials to understand their current duties with respect to
producing information and the importance of participation and the inclusion of the ethno-racial perspective; 5. Work jointly with
Afro-descendants and statistics institutes to evaluate progress and obstacles in these matters, in order to define strategies consistent with
the nature of each data source.
Targets
1. There are laws, policies and institutionalized, participatorymechanisms in place for producing information onAfro-descendent persons;
2. All data sources for the national statistics system have questions for ethno-racial self-identification, recorded fully andwith standards of
quality that allow disaggregation of the information; 3. There is available a set of indicators on racism and discrimination, consistent with
the requirements of Afro-descendants, together with the tools for collecting and producing information; 4. The sectoral information
published by statistics offices is disaggregated forAfro-descendent persons, aswell as for other relevant factors such as age and sex.
Tentative indicators
1. Percentage of relevant data sources that include the self-identification of persons of African descent, including censuses, surveys and
administrative records in the different sectors (target 100%); 2. Coverage and response rates for the ethno-racial variables, by data source;
3. Degree of inclusion of Afro-descendants in the tabulation and analysis of public information; 4. Number of Afro-descendent experts
(male and female) working on information production and analysis in government offices; 5. Existence of mechanisms that guarantee full
participation byAfro-descendants in official statistics production; 6. Availability of timely and good-quality information on population and
development, disaggregated forAfro-descendents.
Related instruments,
forums andmechanisms
United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent; follow-up mechanisms for the Driven Plan of Action;
SCA-ECLAC; SDGs, target 17.18, “by 2020 [have available] high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by race and ethnicity”.
Comments
This prioritymeasure is complementary toPM 17 on the disaggregation of data for adolescents and young people, and toPM 84 on the use
of geo-referenced information. The recommendations on the inclusion of Afro-descendent persons in the data sources of CELADE-
PopulationDivision of ECLAC and the recommendations of theUnitedNations human rightsmechanisms should be reviewed.
