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Figure 3: National target values in comparison to the global SDG values for adopted
child-related targets
Use of global and
More
ambitious, country-specific
6% indicators to
Global, monitor targets
21% Global SDG
No target indicators were
set, 45% developed to
monitor targets and
measure progress
towards achieving
the 2030 Agenda.
These indicators
were derived to be
Country Less technically sound
specific, ambitious, and rigorous, with
4% 24%
metadata and
technical guidelines outlining data collection, processing and analysis. Global
use of these indicators would harmonize national data reporting as well as
allow clear comparisons between countries and over time. Therefore, we were
also interested in the proportion of countries using the global indicator to
monitor progress of child-related targets, as well as how many countries
created a country-specific indicator in lieu of the global indicator.
Generally speaking, if the parent target was incorporated into a national
development strategy, the global indicator was used to measure progress of
the target about half of the time (Figure 4). Country-specific indicators were
used in lieu of global indicators in 15 percent of country-target pairs, meaning
that further data collection or calculation would be necessary to make the
indicator directly comparable to the global indicator. For 36 percent of
country-target pairs, no indicator had been selected to monitor progress.
Therefore, only in about half of all country-target pairs, could the indicator
be compared to regional or global averages, or be used to make inter-country
comparisons or comparisons over time. Further data collection or analysis
would be needed in order to report on the global SDG indicator in almost half
of all countries examined.

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