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New ECLAC policy brief outlines areas for improving national statistics in the Caribbean

22 Jan 2020 | News

The data revolution for sustainable development has heralded a renewed focus on evidence-based policymaking in policy planning and implementation, but the legal foundation for the production of official statistics to inform these processes has lagged among most Caribbean countries. By incorporating and supporting the United Nations Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (UNFPOS) in national statistical legislation, Caribbean countries will improve the quality of and timeliness in the dissemination of official statistics. This can be achieved by revising current statistical laws or crea…

Authorities Reaffirm Commitment to Statistical Development through Cooperation with the Regional and International Statistics Community

21 Nov 2019 | News

The countries participating in the tenth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reaffirmed today their commitment to statistical development through cooperation with the regional and international statistics community, at the closing session of the gathering held on November 19-21 in Santiago, Chile. At the meeting, the countries agreed on the need to seek a collaborative regional response to the demand for official statistics that support the formulation of policies with an empirical basis that contributes t…

Statistical capacity of more than 20 Caribbean countries to be strengthened

4 Apr 2019 | News

Statisticians from the statistical offices of over twenty Caribbean countries and overseas territories will soon be equipped with increased capacity in census planning, management and implementation. A four-day workshop organised by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in collaboration with the Secretariat for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), will take place in Kingston, Jamaica, from 8 to 11 April 2019. Caribbean statistical offices will be carrying out population and housing censuses between 2020 and 2022…

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Will Analyze the Strategic Challenges and Priorities for Regional Statistical Development

22 Mar 2019 | Announcement

Representatives of national statistics institutes from Latin America and the Caribbean will participate on March 27-28 in Santiago, Chile in the Eighteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA), where they will analyze the strategic challenges and priorities for regional statistical development and examine the state of progress of the activities scheduled for the 2018-2019 period. The gathering will be inaugurated by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Guillermo Pattillo…

Countries of the Region Will Analyze the Statistical Framework for Follow-up to the 2030 Agenda

1 Oct 2018 | Announcement

Representatives of national statistics institutes from the region’s countries will participate on October 3-4 in Santiago, Chile in the Seventeenth Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA), where the outcome of the process to prioritize indicators for developing a regional statistical framework for follow-up to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be presented and progress on the activities scheduled for the 2018-2019 biennium will be reviewed. The meeting will be inaugurated by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commissio…

Experts from Latin America and Europe Stress the Importance of Integrating Non-Traditional Data Sources into National Statistical Systems

1 Oct 2018 | News

Experts from Latin America and Europe stressed the importance today of integrating non-traditional data sources into national statistical systems, during a high-level seminar that is being held through Tuesday, October 2 at the central headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The main aim of the event, organized by ECLAC and the European Statistical Office (EUROSTAT), is to present and analyze different tools in the process of the innovative use of non-traditional data sources for official statistics. The seminar was inaugurated by…

New Publication Examines Nine Theses on Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean

27 Mar 2018 | News

Meeting the challenge of preserving a global public asset like the climate will require deep structural transformation from the current development style toward more sustainable development. This calls for a fair and inclusive international agreement that recognizes shared but differentiated responsibilities. This is one of the perspectives set forth in the publication The Economy of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean: a graphic vision, produced in the framework of the EUROCLIMA program, financed by the European Commission and coordinated by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary …

Specialists Underscore Importance of Integrating Statistical and Geospatial Information and Discuss Priorities for Regional Strategic Plan

14 Nov 2017 | News

In a context of accelerated geopolitical, economic and technological changes, with pressing phenomena such as migration and climate change, the countries of the region – via the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) –are working on a strategic plan to integrate statistical and geospatial data and thereby make progress on achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization, Alicia Bárcena, said today in Aguascalientes, Mexico. “Humanity will need all available instruments to transform our developmen…

Mexico will be Host to the Ninth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

10 Nov 2017 | Announcement

Authorities and representatives from national statistics offices and National Statistical Systems of the member countries of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will gather in the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico for the Ninth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC, the main forum for discussing the development of statistics in the region, which will be held on November 14-16, 2017. The event – organized by the government of Mexico, through the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), and ECLAC – will continue promoting inter…

ECLAC Hosts Regional Meeting, the First of its Kind Globally, between the Statistics and Geospatial Communities of Latin America and the Caribbean

5 Apr 2017 | News

Members of the statistics community, represented by the Statistical Conference of the Americas, and of the geospatial information field, grouped together in a United Nations committee of experts, held today the first meeting of its kind carried out at a global level, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. This joint meeting was inaugurated by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena; Mario Palma, Vice President of Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), in his role as Chair of the Executive Comm…

ECLAC looks to expand access to data from 2010 and 2020 census

12 Oct 2016 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is seeking to expand public access to data from the 2010 round of population and housing censuses. These efforts will also provide a sound basis for a more rapid and effective dissemination of data from the upcoming 2020 round of censuses. In the long term, improved online access to these data sources will encourage their use in research, development planning and evidence-based policymaking. Online access to census data sets is provided through the REDATAM (REtrieval of DATa for small Areas by Microcomputer) software. RED…

Countries in the Region Will Analyze Statistics Framework for Follow-Up to the 2030 Agenda

13 Jun 2016 | Announcement

Representatives of national statistics institutes from countries in the region will participate on June 14-16 in Santiago, Chile in the XV Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA), a subsidiary body of ECLAC, where attendees will analyze measurement and statistical coordination mechanisms for follow-up to the 2030 Agenda and will approve the activities planned for the 2016-2017 period. The meeting will be inaugurated by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena; the Vice President…

New skills for government statisticians in Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and Saint Kitts and Nevis

4 Apr 2016 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) are jointly hosting a Regional Capacity Building Workshop in Kingston, Jamaica from 04-15 April 2016. The event, also a collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), will provide technical training to 17 persons from the Cayman Islands, Jamaica and Saint Kitts and Nevis to promote wider use and analysis of national Population and Housing Census data. Experts from ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile and its Caribbean office …

Mobile phone signals assist Caribbean in containing spread of Chikungunya

3 Mar 2016 | News

Information generated from mobile phones can be successfully used to contain the spread of non-communicable diseases, as was recently done to stem the spread of the Chikungunya virus in the Caribbean. This opportunity was explained in the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) recently published report titled “An assessment of big data for official statistics in the Caribbean”. The report notes that the use of big data through geospatial (or location) information was used to support healthcare, and to design social intervention measures to address …

Caribbean researchers to maximize use of census microdata

24 Nov 2015 | News

The options for expanding access to census microdata were the focus of discussion at a Webex expert group meeting (EGM) convened by ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on 23rd November 2015, with participation from representatives of national statistical offices (NSOs), representatives of data archives and some United Nations agencies. The EGM examined how Caribbean census microdata can be made more widely available to researchers. It considered techniques for anonymizing microdata and options for the dissemination of anonymized data set…

Heads of Statistics Will Analyze the Challenges of 2030 Agenda in Quito

12 Nov 2015 | Announcement

Representatives of national statistics offices in American countries and experts from international organizations will attend the Eight Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (SCA-ECLAC), in Quito, Ecuador, on November 17-19, 2015, where they will analyze the statistical challenges of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, and the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena, will open this event, which will be held in the Presidents’ Room at the Union of South American …

Data revolution for sustainable development: The Caribbean Challenge

21 Aug 2015 | News

The Caribbean region needs to take full advantage of the data revolution. Big data - a critical element of this revolution - is the term used to describe the enormous amount of digital information that is generated when people go about their daily activities, including shopping, talking, texting, internet surfing, and traveling. It also includes information about natural phenomena generated and/or transmitted by machines, including satellites. The main characteristics of these data that qualify them as Big data are that they are large in volume, they are generated very frequently and they cove…

ECLAC Recommends Improving Statistics to Measure Territorial Development

31 Mar 2015 | News

The international comparability of territorial statistics in Latin America has limitations that, among other factors, are associated with the scant coverage of sub-national indicators in the region’s countries and to the differences in the institutional and political-administrative structures that exist among them, a recent study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) shows. The document The Comparability of Territorial Statistics in Latin America (only available in Spanish) analyzes two key sources of information on economic and social matters: the sub-national…

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