Medidas de Gestao das Pescarias Marinhas e Aquicultura 2019 The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018 | Page 49

THE STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE 2018
BOX 1
SEX-DISAGGREGATED EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
The first sex-disaggregated employment data were
reported by Japan in 1970, and since then the
reporting of sex-disaggregated employment data by
FAO Member Countries has been slowly improving
in regularity and quality. These data are receiving
increasing policy attention and are critical in
support to decision-making on gender issues in
fisheries and aquaculture (Biswas, 2017).
Sex-disaggregated reporting for employment in
the fishery and aquaculture sectors varies greatly
among countries and regions (Table 13). Some
countries in every region reported only “men” or
“unspecified”, and it cannot always be determined
whether these figures truly indicate that no women
are employed in the sectors or whether, as is more
likely, sex-disaggregated data have not been
collected. In some cases, particularly when
countries previously provided fully sex-
disaggregated statistics but have reverted to
reporting only “unspecified”, FAO has applied
estimations.
Table 14 presents sex-disaggregated employment
statistics in the primary sector for selected countries,
showing time series data for the period 2010–2016.
TABLE 13
REPORTING OF SEX-DISAGGREGATED EMPLOYMENT (WOMEN, MEN AND UNSPECIFIED) IN FISHERIES AND
AQUACULTURE, BY REGION, 2016
Women
Region
No.
(‘000)
Africa Latin America and the
Caribbean
Men
% No.
(‘000)
585.1 11 394.4 19
Unspecified
% No.
(‘000) %
4 249.3 79 532.6 10
1 383.6 66 306.7 15
Fisheries
North America
<0.1 0 37.9 18 171.1 82
4 843.9 15 25 020.5 78 2 125.2 7
6.4 2 115.3 33 232.0 66
49.1 15 150.0 45 134.7 40
Africa 33.1 11 211.8 70 58.6 19
Latin America and the
Caribbean 29.3 8 229.8 60 122.3 32
0 9.3 100
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Aquaculture 
North America
Asia
Europe
Oceania
0
2 764.3 15 14 068.5 76 1 645.5 9
16.7 18 56.7 62 17.5 19
1.5 19 5.2 68 1.0 13
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