Regional annual seminar on household surveys, 2025
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ECLAC promotes a regional forum to strengthen household surveys in Latin America and the Caribbean, encouraging the exchange of experiences and the adoption of new methodologies and technologies to improve the quality and comparability of social and economic statistics.
Event information
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11 - 13 Nov 2025, 15:00 - 18:00Event type
Household surveys are one of the main sources of official statistics and play a fundamental role in measuring social, economic, and demographic indicators. In a context where demands for quality, comparability, and timeliness of statistical information are increasing, National Statistical Offices and other public agencies face the challenge of adapting these instruments to new realities.
The Statistics Division of ECLAC provides continuous support to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in the design, implementation, and analysis of household surveys, both through direct technical assistance and by promoting the exchange of experiences. It also compiles and processes information from these surveys, particularly multipurpose and living conditions surveys, in order to generate regionally comparable statistics.
Based on this experience, ECLAC has identified the relevance of consolidating a regional space in which common challenges faced by household surveys can be addressed, methodological innovations can be shared, and practical solutions to recurring problems can be discussed. For this reason, in November 2024 the “Regional Seminar on Innovations and Challenges in Household Surveys” was held in Santiago, Chile. Its purpose was to analyze advances and difficulties in the collection, analysis, and dissemination of household survey information, promote the exchange of good practices, and explore the use of new methodologies and technologies.
This meeting continues that effort, focusing on four thematic areas:
- Definition of new sampling frames and linking of time series;
- Questionnaire design and management;
- Non-response: prevention, treatment, and analysis;
- Applications of large language models (LLMs) in statistical production processes.
Participants
Officials from National Statistical Offices, Central Banks, and other public entities related to the production and use of household surveys are expected to participate.
Practical information
Regional annual seminar on household surveys, 2025
Virtual meeting
| Connection platform: | Webex Registration and connection to the seminar |
| Date: | 11 - 13 November 2025 |
| Time: | 15:00 - 18:00 hrs. (Chile time UTC -3) |
| Languages: | The event will be conducted in Spanish and English, with simultaneous translation. |
| Note: | For connection testing, the session will be available 60 minutes before the scheduled start time. |
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Schedule
11 nov 2025
15:00 - 15:25
Opening
- Rolando Ocampo, Director of the Statistics Division of ECLAC
Findings from the 2024 seminar
- Xavier Mancero, Statistics Division, ECLAC
Definition of new sampling frames and linkage of time series
15:25 - 18:00
Andrés Gutiérrez, Statistics Division, ECLAC
Presentation, ECLAC
Questions and comments
José Elías Rodríguez, IINEGI Mexico
Mexican experience in the use of censuses and administrative records for the construction of sampling frames
Lucía Gaslac Torres, Project Leader of the National Household Survey (ENAHO), INEI Peru
Experience using administrative records to improve the selection of the migrant population sample in Peru
Questions and comments
Gladys Ocampos, Head of the Population Studies Department, INE Paraguay
Construction of the Sampling Frame and its stratification, within the framework of the results from the latest CNPV 2022
Panel discussion
12 nov 2025
15:00 - 18:00
Questionnaire design and management
Julie de Jong, University of Michigan
Introductory presentation
Questions and comments
Javiera Quinteros, INE Chile
Lessons from the Chile EPF Field Test: design and validation of questionnaires
Farah Paredes, ONE Dominican Republic
Design and management of questionnaires
Questions and comments
Marcela Cabezas, ILO
Recommendations from the International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) and their impact on household survey questionnaires
INEC Ecuador
National experience on questionnaire design and management (ICLS-19)
Mario Reynoso Chach, Analyst, Census and Survey Directorate, INE Guatemala
Adaptation of the Continuous National Employment and Income Survey to ICLS recommendations
Questions and comments
13 nov 2025
15:00 - 18:00
Non-response: prevention, treatment, and analysis
Natalie Schlomo, University of Manchester
Introductory presentation
Questions and comments
Gabriel Henrique Oliveira Assunção, IBGE Brazil
Non-response: prevention, treatment, and analysis
Felipe López, INE Chile
Analysis and treatment of non-response in the daily expenditure module of the IX EPF
Pedro José Reyes González, Director of Censuses and Surveys, INE Guatemala
Challenges in data collection in Household Surveys
Questions and comments
Applications of large language models (LLMs) in statistical production processes
Álvaro Fuentes, Statistics Division, ECLAC
Presentation, ECLAC
Panel discussion