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• Developing standards for the collection andanalysis of statistics on gender pay gaps,including methodologies to capture genderinequalities in earnings from self-employment• Supporting the ongoing development ofnew methodologies for the measurementof women’s asset ownership andentrepreneurship• Producing comparable, disaggregatedstatistics on the benefit levels of child andfamily allowances, unemployment benefitsand old-age pensions• Developing standards and methods forassessing the quality of social services,including their responsiveness to the rights ofwomen and girls• Conducting regular surveys on violence againstwomen and girls based on globally agreedstandards• Investing in civil registration and vitalsystems to ensure that births and deaths areaccurately recorded, in order to improve thequality and availability of data on maternaland child mortality• Developing and funding other sources ofevidence, including qualitative research, tocapture dimensions of inequality that arenot easily measurable but crucially shapewomen’s and girls’ enjoyment of rights,including stigma and deprivation of agency.241