EIGE

European Ombudsman wmidm_adm_audit__wmid_euadmin_omb

Time format:
Years
Unit:
Percentage of total (comparable)
Unit:
Head count
Description:

The Gender Statistics Database (GSD) of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) contains data on the numbers of women and men in key decision-making positions across a number of different life domains. Data may cover international, European, national, regional and local levels and currently include 38 European countries. The GSD aims to provide reliable statistics that can be used to monitor the current situation and trends over time.

The domains covered include politics, public administration, judiciary, business and finance, social partners and NGOs, environment, media, science and research, sports, and transport. The decision-making positions covered are specific to each area.

A decision-making position is a position from which it is possible to take or influence a decision:

  • within a domain: at organisational level. This restricts coverage to organisations having a major influence in the domain at the territorial level of interest, which is usually national but can also be international, European, regional or local;
  • within an organisation: at hierarchical level. This restricts coverage to positions within the hierarchy that have a major input to decision-making within the organisation.

WMID Methodological report

The public administration domain includes statistics on women and men presiding the monitoring and auditing bodies and amongst the top two levels of senior civil servants at European and national level. Data on European administration cover the administrators in the European institutions (European Commission, European Parliament and the Council of the European Union) and the secretary-generals of European Committees (the Committee of Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee). Data also cover the president and members of the European Court of Auditors and the European Ombudsman, as well as presidents, members, and the executive heads of the agencies of the European Community.

Organisations covered:

  • European Commission: Directorates-General and services of European Commission
  • European Parliament: Services of the European Parliament
  • General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union
  • European Committees: Committee of Regions and European Economic and Social Committee
  • European Court of Auditors: audits the collection and spending of European Union funds and aims to ensure maximum value for money for its citizens
  • European Ombudsman: investigates and reports on maladministration in the institutions and bodies of the European Union
  • Agencies of the European Community: Community agencies are bodies governed by European public law, with their own legal personality, that are established by an act of secondary legislation in order to accomplish a very specific technical, scientific or managerial task. Note that Community agencies may use various names such as Centre, Foundation, Agency, Office or Observatory.

Positions covered:

  • Level 1 administrators: Director General, Deputy Director General or equivalent
  • Level 2 administrators: Director, Principal Advisor or equivalent
  • Senior administrators: sum of level 1 and level 2 administrators.
  • Secretary-general (European Committees)
  • President and members of the European Court of Auditors (count of members includes the president)
  • European Ombudsman
  • President and members of the highest decision-making body of European agencies (count of members includes president)
  • Executive head of European agencies: highest executive position or head of the highest executive body. Usually referred to as either the secretary general or managing director. For organisations that do not have a separate executive position, the president is counted instead.
Keywords:
decision making, decision-making, public administration, WMIDM, women and men in decision making, women and men in decision-making
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Available flags:

b break in time series c confidential
d definition differs, see metadata e estimated
f forecast i see metadata
m imputed n not significant
p provisional r revised
s Eurostat estimate u low reliability
x dropped due to insufficient sample size y unreliable due to small sample size
z not applicable