Economics Homework Help
MU MOD 6 Share of Women Employed in Non Agricultural Sector Worksheet
I’m working on a Economics exercise and need support.
As Todaro and Smith note (pp. 311-18, especially p. 314), there seems to be a high correlation between women’s and girls’ status within the household and household fertility.
In this exercise, you will
- find data for your chosen countries on the country’s demographic situation (hint: fertility is presumably most appropriate here);
- find data on two indicators of women’s and girls’ status;
- arrange these data on one or more graphs using Excel; and
- write a brief narrative on whether you have found a relationship between demography and women’s status. Be sure to watch out for lags, i.e., if women’s status improves in a given year, demographic changes may not occur until several years later.
Data Sources
On the left, you will see where you can choose your variables (Country Report Columns), country, and time period.
- women’s and girls’ status: MDG Indicators (UN) (????????)
At the data source, be sure to click on Data at the top and choose your country from the drop-down menu. MDG Goal 3 is Promote Gender Equality and Power Women, with three indicators, namely (1) Equal girls’ enrollment in primary school; (2) Women’s share of paid employment; and (3) Women’s equal representation in national parliaments (see MDG goals (UN) (????????)for a table of goals and progress by region).
