Human Rights Education A Manual for National Human Rights Institutions Quantitative indicators measure those things that can be counted; that is, numbers or facts. In relation to human rights education activities, quantitative indicators could be the number of: • participants involved in a human rights education workshop • organizations that developed a human rights action plan as part of a community development programme • comments on a youth rights website • organizations involved in a disability rights network. Both qualitative and quantitative indicators have their strengths and weaknesses. Qualitative indicators provide more in-depth information, but this information is more difficult to measure and compare. Quantitative indicators produce data that is easy to measure but do not give in-depth information. It is ideal to use a combination of both. A simple rule for developing indicators is QQTL. Quality Quantity Time Location Strong Indictator While not all indicators require all four elements, strong indicators will be a combination of all four. Below are examples of the indicators developed for Sustainable Development Goal 5, Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. As you will see, some include all four elements, others are just quantitative. Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age (Indicator 5.2.1) • Quality: reports of violence • Quantity: proportion of population/age and gender/type of violence (while it is not stated it is implied that other data such as national violence statistics etc would contribute to this data) • Time: 12-month period • Location: within each country/across the world Proportion of women aged 20-24 who were married or in a union before age 15 and before aged 18 (Indicator 5.3.2) • • • • Quality: nil Quantity: proportion of population/age, gender, marital status Time: Nil but could relate to a country’s reporting time Location: within each country across the world Proportion of women aged 15-49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care (Indicator 5.6.1) • • • • 58 Quality: reports from women Quantity: proportion of against population/age, gender/scope of decisions Time: Nil but could relate to a country’s reporting time Location: within each country/across the world