Gender statistics are indispensable in planning, decision making and monitoring of Gender and Development (GAD) programs and projects at the subnational level.

This handbook is the first edition prepared for MIMAROPA. It presents the latest available gender statistics through tables and charts with short explanatory texts and brief analyses highlighting important features of the data. It also incorporates the updates on population based on 2015 Census of Population.

This publication contains latest available gender statistics under the following chapters, namely: (1) Population and Families, (2) Work, (3) Agriculture, (4) Education, (5) Health, (6) Social Welfare, (7) Public Life, (8) Peace and Human Rights, (9) Violence Against Women and Children, (10) Environment and (11) Migration.