The Statistical Handbook on Women and Men in MIMAROPA presents the latest available gender statistics through tables and charts with short explanatory texts and brief analyses highlighting important features of the data. Data for provinces and cities are also provided whenever possible. PSA RSSO MIMAROPA hopes that this publication will be a tool of government planners and policy makers in the development of genderrelated commitments of our country.

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