National Accounts Seminar for Latin America and the Caribbean: regional implementation of the SNA 2008 and its relationship with other systems

The Seminar will address topics such as the state of implementation of the SNA 2008 at global level; the quarterly national accounts; the quarterly accounts for institutional sectors; the historical series of national accounts; the integrated systems for economic statistics and classifications; the social expenditure and national accounts; the new IMF national accounts manual; the measurement of the South-South Cooperation, among others.…

Regional training workshop on the development of REDATAM applications for the dissemination of population and housing census data

The overall objective of this regional workshop is to train statisticians, experts in statistical computing, and IT specialists from Suriname, Guyana and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the use of the REDATAM software for web dissemination of census and survey data.…

Latin American Conference: Transformative Agenda for Official Statistics

Co-organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). With the support of CARICOM and Eurostat.…

Substantive issues: Seminar on the use of administrative records for statistical purposes

Seminar on the follow-up framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

This seminar is held within the framework of the Fifteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee.…

Fifteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

The agenda of the fifteenth meeting of the Executive Committee includes a review of the proposed activities of the working groups, and the adoption of the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities of the Conference for 2016-2017. The meeting is preceded by seminar on the follow-up framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. Agreements and Report ▪ Report of the fifteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of SCA-ECLAC ▪ Agreements of the meeting Working documents Preliminary Programme LC/L.4167(CE.15/1)/Rev.2 Provisional agenda LC/L.4178(CE.15/2)…

Regional Capacity Building Workshops on Analysis and Dissemination of National Population and Housing Census Data

This project was implemented by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United States Census Bureau (USCB). Two workshops were organised for government statisticians from Caribbean countries and territories, a Regional Workshop on the Use of REDATAM for the Online Dissemination of Census Data and a Regional Capacity Building Workshop in Demographic Analysis and Population Projections.…

Meeting for Pilot Countries of the Development Account, 9th Tranche on “Strengthening statistical capacities for building macroeconomic and sustainable development indicators in Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia Pacific countries”

Annual National Accounts Seminar for Latin America and the Caribbean 2015

The Seminar will address topics such as the state of situation for the implementation of the SNA 2008, the satellite and household accounts, as well as quarterly accounts and the SNA 2008 working groups.…

Substantive seminar: The data revolution and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: challenges and opportunities for national statistical institutes

Side-event of Eighth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC. Organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), with the support of German Cooperation.…

Eighth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

The Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean shall be a subsidiary body of the Commission that shall contribute to the progress of policies on statistics and statistical activities in the countries of the region.…

Forum on Strengthening Statistical Management Practices in Latin America and the Caribbean

Organized by Statistics Canada in collaboration with ECLAC, the Government of Ecuador, through the National Statistics and Census Institute (INEC) and Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada…

Expert Group Meeting on Big Data

Hosted at ECLAC Caribbean’s headquarters on 24 August 2015, an expert group meeting will bring together representatives from the National Statistical Offices of the Caribbean region as well as other experts in information and communications technology to discuss Big data, its implications and uses.…

Seventeenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development Cooperation Committee

“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC)…

The Inter-American System Joins forces to tackle the leading cause of deaths in the Americas: Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs)

The Director of the ECLAC Washington Office, Inés Bustillo participated in the Launch of the Inter-American Task Force on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) at OAS Headquarters, Washington, D.C.…

Fourteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

At this meeting, the Executive Committee reviewed the status of implementation of the Biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities 2014-2015, adopted by the Statistical Conference of the Americas at its seventh meeting by virtue of resolution 8(VII), and the agreements adopted at the thirteenth meeting of the Executive Committee. The Committee will also discuss the proposed Strategic Plan, 2015-2025, of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC. As a special item at this meeting, the Executive Committee will elect the countries that will participate in the …

First Workshop for Latin American and Caribbean countries "Supporting developing countries measure progress towards achieving a Green Economy"

ECLAC regional workshop on the development of REDATAM applications for the dissemination of census data

A team drawn from ECLAC’s subregional headquarters for the Caribbean and the regional headquarters in Santiago, Chile will be holding a training workshop to support the statistical offices of Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, and Barbados in the development of web-based applications for the dissemination of national census data.…

Thirteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

At this meeting, the Executive Committee reviewed the status of implementation of the Biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities 2014-2015, adopted by the Statistical Conference of the Americas at its seventh meeting by virtue of resolution 8(VII), and the agreements adopted at the twelfth meeting of the Executive Committee. The Committee reviewed the status of the plans of action drawn up by the working groups and will assess the possibility of improving their operations; discussions also began on the criteria for determining the new strategic plan for the Statist…

Progress and challenges regarding gender mainstreaming in producing statistics within national statistical systems

Download Programme of the Meeting Coordinator: National Institute of Statistics and Geography, INEGI, Mexico…