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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 of the Region Meeting at ECLAC See Synergies between the Montevideo Consensus and the 2030 Agenda

6 Oct 2016 | News

Representatives of 17 countries of the region meeting at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) adopted today a proposed format for national reports on progress in the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development and acknowledged the synergies between this intergovernmental agreement of 2013 and the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. This is the tenor of the agreements of the third meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development (CRPD), held on 4-6 October in Santiago. …

Turks and Caicos Islands has one of the fastest growing populations in the Caribbean

20 Jul 2016 | News

The population of the Turks and Caicos Islands could reach 55,498 people by the year 2027 – compared with 32,199 in 2012 – according to the medium projection in a joint report launched today by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean and the Statistics Department of the Turks and Caicos Government. Net migration accounts for 68 per cent of this projected increase with natural change (births less deaths) accounting for the remaining 32 per cent. Immigration of people from neighbouring countries seeking employmen…

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…

Regional Seminar on Time Use Surveys

8 Dec 2014 | News

As part of its ongoing work in the Caribbean, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has responded to requests from member and associate member states for statistical capacity training in the core elements of Time Use Surveys. On 10 – 11 December 2014, a Regional Seminar on Time Use Surveys will be held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The seminar, which will target technical staff and practitioners from gender bureaus and national statistical offices, will be convened by ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean, with support from the ECLAC Divisio…

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

26 Sep 2014 | News

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. Organised at the request of the respective governments, the workshop will take place from 29 September to 10 October 2014 in Saint George’s, Grenada, and follows a similar workshop held in Trinidad and Tobago in February 2014. REDATAM is a software program developed by the…

Report Urges Region to Incorporate International Guidelines to Measure Disabilities

1 Sep 2014 | News

It is estimated that some 70.6 million people lived with some kind of disability in Latin America and the Caribbean between 2001 and 2013, which is equivalent to 12.5 % of the region's population, according to a report by the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA), a subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which recommends that countries incorporate international guidelines into their statistical procedures on this topic. The document, which is based on information provided by the national statistics offices in 17 Latin American s…

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