Population and Housing

censuses: Use of census data

for gender statistics

Presented by:
SLIMANI Salma
HCP Statistics Directorate

Regional workshop on integrating a gender perspective in the production of statistics

Amman, Jordan
1 – 4 December 2014
Course Title |This is the slide title

National strategy for gender equality

International commitments

Population size by sex : A brief history of Morocco

(1960 – 2014)

Population Pyramid by Sex and Age Group, 2014

Population characteristics
 National strategy for gender equality
 The legal and institutional arsenal provided by the new Moroccan
Constitution (2011) promoting gender equality;

 Legislative and legal reforms (Family code, Penal code, Labor code, law of
civil registration, political parties law, new communal charter, …);

 Economic and social empowerment through NHDI initiative and many

sectorial programs;

 Political and administrative empowerment

 Quotas :17% parliament, 12% municipalities;
 Incentive system for political parties to rise women’s representation.

 Strategies and programs, ex: multisectorial TAMKIN program and IKRAM

program.
 International commitments
 The Beijing Platform for Action;

 The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against

Women (CEDAW);

 MDG (millennium development goal) and the transversality gender

equality goal in the post-2015.
 Population size by sex : A brief
history of Morocco (1960 – 2014)
33,4
29,8 16,8 16,6
Population in Millions

26 15 14,8

20,4 13,1 12,9

15,3 10,2 10,2

11,6 7,7 7,7

5,8 5,8

Sex Ratio (2014) : 98,8 %

Total population : 33 millions ( 49,7 % males and 50,3 % females)
* Based on population projections updates made on the basis of 2004 census and 2009-2010 demographic national survey.
 Population Pyramid by Sex and Age
Group, 2014

Female Male

Data based on population projections updates made on the basis of 2004 census and 2009-2010 demographic
national survey.
 Population characteristics
 Household Head
 Polygamy
 Education and illiteracy
 Economic activity
 Single Mean Age at Marriage
 Fertility
 Life Expectancy at Birth by Sex
 Education and illiteracy
Highest grade completed in Education
Highest educational diploma
school during 2013-2014
Illiteracy and languages
Public education Professional education
For every member of the Were you in school
household
during 2013-2014? Every person (10 years old and over)

Type of
Specify and code up [0] No diploma [0] No diploma
Specify and code education [1] Yes, at general Do you to three spoken and
last year in school educ- know how to written languages
ation for the whole read and Note highest earned Note highest earned
[1] year
Examples write? diploma diploma
[00] None Public [2] Yes, at general [1] [1] Arabic
educ-
ation, but not
[2] Amazigh
[13] fourth primary finished Yes
(Tifinagh)
and code [1] and code [1]
[18] third [3]Yes, at
[2] [3] French Examples : Examples :
elementary professional
[23] Second high training for the
Private whole year [2] [4] English Elementary degree Certificate in secreteriat
school
[4] Yes, at Technician in
No [5] Spanish Doctorate in surgery
professional management
training, but not
Other, specify finished [6] Other languages, Architect Technician in hotelry

specify
[5]No
Education and illiteracy
Children never attending primary school
 Education and illiteracy
Ratio of female to male school enrollment (%)

91 89 87 94
83 84
73 72
68
 Education and illiteracy
Illiteracy rate by Sex for population aged 10 and
above
65
55
78
67 43

51 55
41
39
 Economic Activity
Economic
Specify economic activity activity Duration
status
[00] Econ.
For 7 years old and over For 15 years old and over
active
[01]
For the
Unemployed
unemplo
1
Did you work last yed
Do you have a job even if Are you currently [02]
week even for one
seasonal? looking for a job? Unemployed
hour? Why aren’t you 2
looking for a job?
[03]
Housewife
[04] Student
[05] Landlord Duration
[06] Retired of
[07] Disabled, unemplo
sick yment
[08] Elderly (in
[09] Child years)
[10] Other
cases
 Economic Activity
Primary economic activity of
Primary profession Employment status
establishment

for the employed and the unemployed

write in detail [1] Employer of less than 5 write in detail primary

persons
Primary profession [2] Employer of more than 5 economic activity
persons
and code [1] [3] Self employed of establishment

and code [1]

[4] Salaried in public sector

[5] Salaried in private sector

Examples : [6] Family aid
High school principal [7] Apprentice Examples :
Wholeseller of fabric [8] Associate Whole selling
[9] Other specify Medicine
 Single Mean Age at Marriage
(SMAM)
31,2 31,4
30

27,1 25,8 26,3 26,6

24 25,5
22,2
19,6
Age

17,5

* Data based on 2009-2010 demographic national survey.

Fertility
 Fertility

7,2

5,91
5,52

3,28
2,47 2,19
Life Expectancy at Birth by Sex:
1952-2010
73,9 75,6
70,6 73
66,4
63,7
60,2
58,1

47,3 49,1
41,9 43,9
 Thank you
“The admission of women to complete equality would be the surest sign of
civilization, and would double the intellectual powers of the human race.”
Stendhal (1783-1842)