during the th meeting of the interagency and expert group on gender statistics held at the dead sea in march the results of a global review of the gender statistics programmes in un countries were presented the global review was developed by the un statistics division in consultation with the regional commissions and finalised by a task team of the interagency and expert group on gender statistics results reveal that of the responding countries already have a gender statistics focal point in the national statistical office have a coordinating body for gender statistics at the national level in addition gender statistics are governed by statistics or genderrelated laws regulation or national action plans in an overwhelming majority of the countries but only of those countries have specific legislation requiring the national statistical system to conduct specialised genderbased surveys