The Conference, whose creation was approved by the United Nations Economic and Social Council in July 2000, will be a subsidiary organization of ECLAC, and will seek to contribute to the progress of statistics-related policies and activities throughout the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
José Antonio Ocampo, Executive Secretary of ECLAC will officially open the meeting, the first of its kind in the region, at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday 9 May. The purpose of the meeting is to promote the development of national statistics, their improvement and their international …
Abstract
The paper presents the challenges and lessons learnt from the Project Development of Social Statistical Databases and the Methodological Approaches for a Social Vulnerability Index (SVI); for Small Island Developing States' (NET/00/035);, which was undertaken by the Social Development Unit of
the ECLAC/CDCC secretariat. The Project aims to make available to social planners and decision makers in the Caribbean, a body of social statistics comprised of data sets being generated by national central statistical offices of the ECLAC/CDCC member States. The paper situates the Pro…
Summary
1. The statistics offices in the region utilize state of the art technology for processing their trade data, and report producing statistics on a regular basis. The periods of publications are monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, annually, and semi-annually, but vary amongst countries.
2. The warrants presented by importers and exporters to the customs departments for the clearance of goods is the main source of trade data in each country. After checking and processing, a copy of the warrants is placed in batches and forwarded to the statistics office, usually on a monthly basis.
In some co…