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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…

Complete Version of the Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2014 Is Now Available Online

22 Dec 2014 | News

The Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2014, one of the most important annual publications of ECLAC, is already available in its complete version as from today in the Commission’s website. The document was originally launched last 2 December in a press conference headed by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, and includes the complete chapters as well as the economic fact sheets of each one of the region’s countries analyzed in the study. In the Preliminay Overview ECLAC examined the overall performance of the region’s economies in 2014 and p…

OECD, ECLAC and CAF to Launch their Joint Latin American Economic Outlook 2015

5 Dec 2014 | Announcement

The eighth edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook: Education, Skills and Innovation will be launched on Tuesday 9 December at 8:30am in the margins of the Ibero-American Summit at the Conventions Center, World Trade Centre, in Veracruz, Mexico. This year’s edition focuses on how the region can increase the levels and quality of education and skills in order to foster productivity and competitiveness as well as a more inclusive society, in a context of growth slowdown. The report will be presented by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America a…

ECLAC and Argentine Province of Santa Fe Developed New Economic Activity Index

2 Jul 2013 | News

A statistical and econometric instrument to measure a province's economic activity simply and in real time has been developed by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in conjunction with the Secretariat for Planning and Economic Policy of the Province of Santa Fe in Argentina and the Provincial Institute of Statistics and Censuses (IPEC). The Synthetic Index of Provincial Economic Activity (ISAE), created as part of the Programme of Technical Assistance to Provinces by the ECLAC Office in Buenos Aires, will provide information for diagnostics and the pl…

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