EIGE

Bureau of the European Parliament: president and members wmidm_pol_parl_burcom__wmid_eurparl_bur

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

Parliamentary bureaus

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 37 European countries. Data covered the United Kingdom up to 2024. 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, transport, COVID-19, and EU funding. 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 politics domain includes statistics on women and men amongst politicians at the European, national, regional and local levels. Data on parliamentary bureaus cover the president (speaker) and members of parliamentary bureaus in all houses of national parliaments and of the European Parliament.

Organisations covered:

The body forming the decisional and operative structure around the Speaker or President of the parliament i.e. the bureau (“board” or the “presidium”).

Positions covered:

  • President: chairperson of the bureau (the speaker/president of the parliament).
  • Members: members of the bureau or equivalent (count includes the president).
MEMB_BUR
PRES_BUR
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M
W
MEMB_BUR
100
46.7
53.3
PRES_BUR
100
0
100

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