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Equality Data Collection Practices in Croatia

This article is analyzing Croatian national legal framework, policy and activities in the field of equality data collection. In the past two decade, it has become widely accepted among human rights practitioners that reliable and robust equality data are needed to measure inequalities, to target social policies and to monitor their implementation, as well as to design action measures and remedies. Equality data is defined as any piece of information, quantitative or qualitative in nature, that is useful for the purposes of describing and analyzing the state of equality and for the purpose of measuring discrimination. They can be derived from different sources such as censuses, administrative registers, and surveys. The survey we conducted discloses that the data collected by various Croatian state institutions are to great extent are not comparable, whereas there are merely two competent authorities that collect and make equality data available to the public: the Croatian Bureau of Statistics and the Office of the Ombudsperson. The findings point towards conclusion that much more elaborated equality data policy is needed if Croatian social policies are to target specific needs of certain categories of citizens and to track the impact of policy initiatives on the ground.

equality data ; equality statistics ; non-discrimination legislation ; collection and processing of sensitive personal data ; evidence-based policy making ; measuring inequalitiy ; combating discrimination ; Croatia

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