The Care Indicator System in Mexico City (CISCDMX) is a project developed jointly by the Government of Mexico City (GCDMX), led by the Women’s Secretariat, and Open Data Charter (ODC) within the framework of the Care Economy Partnerships 4 Change initiative of the International Development Research Center (IDRC). The objective was to create a data-driven information system that shows how the demand and supply of care is currently organized in Mexico City.
As a result of the process detailed here below, this project achieved the publication of the Mexico City Care Indicators System, which comprises more than 76 care indicators disaggregated by municipality, gender and age. This project was based on the experience of the work carried out by the Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (GCBA), led by the Directorate of Statistics and Census, and the ODC1, which became the first system of its kind in Latin America. The scaling up to a second city made it possible to contribute to the creation of a common standard on how the problems of cities can be measured at the local level through statistical and registry data.
The Women’s Secretariat, created in 1999, is an agency of the Mexico City Government that promotes the development of women through gender equality and respect for their human rights.
The Open Data Charter is a collaboration between more than 170 governments and organizations working to open data with a common set of principles. It promotes policies and practices that enable governments and civil society organizations to collect, share and use governed data to respond effectively and accountably to the following areas: anti-corruption, climate action and equal pay.
