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Proportion Of Seats Held By Women In (a) national Parliaments And (b) Local Governments
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5.5.1 Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments and (b) local governments
Metadata
| Relevance/rationale of the indicator (resp. why the indicator was chosen to measure the target and how it is suitable for these purposes) | The indicator measures the degree to which women have equal access to political decision making. Women’s participation in politics is a key aspect of women’s opportunities in political and public life, and is therefore linked to women’s empowerment in the society. |
| Target value of the indicator and its evaluation | The target value is equal representation of women and men in national parliament and local governments. |
| Definition | The proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments is the number of seats held by women members in the lower chamber of national parliament, expressed as a percentage of all occupied seats; it is derived by dividing the total number of seats occupied by women by the total number of seats in the lower chamber of parliament. The proportion of seats held by women in local governments is the number of seats held by women members in local councils (councils of municipalities, market towns and towns) expressed as a percentage of all occupied seats; it is derived by dividing the total number of seats occupied by women by the total number of seats in all local councils (councils of municipalities, market towns and towns). |
| Measuring unit | % |
| Indicator disaggregation | Chamber of Deputies (state), Local Councils (state) |
| Reference period (resp. the period to which the indicator relates) | Local councils every 4 years, the piece of data is updated on an ongoing basis by results of extraordinary elections to local councils; however, since extraordinary elections are held on a small territory, the value of the indicator remains almost unchanged. The Chamber of Deputies usually also every 4 years, but due to the possibility of extraordinary elections there are exceptions. |
| Related geographical area | CZ (NUTS 0) |
| Comment | Proportion of seats held by women in the national parliament (in the Czech environment, according to the methodology of the indicator, the lower chamber of the Parliament of the Czech Republic is meant, i.e. the Chamber of Deputies) was not increasing in a linear manner, the proportion of women was changing during the surveyed period. The most significant change from the perspective of the proportion of women occurred after the elections in 2010 when the proportion of women increased by 6.5 percentage points. In 2013, the proportion of women decreased in the Chamber of Deputies; after the elections in 2017, however, the proportion of women in the Chamber of Deputies was on the same level as it was in case of elections to the Chamber of Deputies in 2010. The increasing trend of the indicator was confirmed in the 2021 elections to the Chamber of Deputies – a quarter of the elected deputies were women. Proportion of seats held by women in local governments (i.e. local councils) has been gradually increasing. The local level (local councils) is the only level in the Czech Republic, in which the proportion of women in elected bodies has been developing up to now in a linear way – although an increase in the indicator was rather slow (by units or tenths of percentage points). Concurrently, the percentage of women in elected bodies on the local level has always been higher than their proportion in the national parliament (the Chamber of Deputies). Notes: 1) The CZSO only has a list of deputies who were elected in the elections – it does not monitor how substitutes replace originally elected persons when a seat becomes vacant; therefore, the proportion of elected women is not in any way revised by the CZSO before the date of new elections. 2) The CZSO only has a list of councillors who were elected in the elections – it does not monitor how substitutes replace originally elected persons when a seat becomes vacant; the piece of data is updated on an ongoing basis by results of extraordinary elections to local councils; however, since extraordinary elections are held on a small territory, the value of the indicator remains almost unchanged. |
| Update periodicity | Local councils every 4 years, the piece of data is updated on an ongoing basis by results of extraordinary elections to local councils; however, since extraordinary elections are held on a small territory, the value of the indicator remains almost unchanged. The Chamber of Deputies usually also every 4 years, but due to the possibility of extraordinary elections there are exceptions. |
| Time coverage since | 2005 |
| Time coverage until | 2023 |
| Time series available at the data provider since | 1996 (Chamber of Deputies), 1994 (Local Councils) |
| Data publication date (resp. the date when the data provider publishes (regularly) data; it is given in the format T + the number of days, months or years when T is the end of the reference period) | T+1m |
| Contact point - data provider - e-mail | ondrej.prochazka@csu.gov.cz |
| Contact point - data provider - name | Ondřej Procházka |
| Data source | Czech Statistical Office |
| Data origin | Elections |
| Links to detailed metadata or methodology | https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-05-05-01a.pdf https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-05-05-01b.pdf |
| Links to international comparison | https://data.ipu.org/ |