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PRIORITYMEASURE17
“Guarantee also reliable statistical data, disaggregated by sex, age,migration status, race and ethnicity, cultural variables and geographical location, with regard
to education, health, in particular sexual health and reproductive health, employment and the participationof adolescents and young people.”
Possible lines of action
1. Improve the coverage, timeliness and quality of vital statistics and official records in general, and ensure that they contain an age
distinction for identifying children, adolescents and youth; 2. Include specific surveys on children, adolescents and youth, and
demographic and health surveys, in the official, regular national survey programme; 3. Establish national information systems that
integrate the various sources and use common codes, for example geo-referencing; 4. Ensure open access to all databases, for example
through online database consultations and processes; 5. Promote participation by adolescents and young people in national information
systems; 6. Promote participation by children, adolescents and young people in the design, analysis and use of information survey results,
taking into account the technical nature of these processes; 7. Apply criteria of transparency, diffusion, sustainability and quality to
official data on this age group.
Targets
1. To have complete, timely and high-quality vital records; 2. To have regular statistics on education, sexuality, employment, participation
and other themes relevant to the reference group; 3. To have regular surveys covering childhood, adolescences and youth, and demographics
and health; 4. To have national information systems that integrate different sources, use common codes (e.g. geo-referencing) and allow
social and territorial disaggregations; 5. Tohaveonline instruments for consultation andprocessingof official databases, including censuses.
Tentative indicators
1. Existence of vital statistics registries, surveys and censuses, and other relevant records, that provide adequate, timely and disaggregated
information for all phases of development of children, adolescents and young people; 2. Existence of policies and programmes that make
regular and systematic use of information on childhood, adolescence and youth; 3. Percentage of the population, of civil society
organizations and of academia that expresses satisfactionwith the availability of information on childhood, adolescence andyouth.
Related instruments,
forums andmechanisms
SDG target 17.18. “By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for LDCs and SIDs, to increase
significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status,
disability, geographical location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts”. The Statistical Conference of the Americas should
have a leading role inpromoting andmonitoring thisPrioritymeasure, alongwithUNICEFandOU asmentioned above.
Comments
Other priority measures of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, such as PMs 4, 98 and 103, pursue the same
objective as this one, but in reference toother populationgroups or the population in general.
These measures are complementary to PM 90 and PM 98, in terms of generating disaggregated information on indigenous peoples and
Afro-descendants, respectively, and including a gender and generational perspective.
