(14 November 2011) The Sixth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC (SCA-ECLAC) will talk place in Bávaro, Dominican Republic, from 16 to 18 November 2011 during which authorities and experts will analyse various issues relating to the development of statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean.
During the meeting, ministers, directors of national statistical offices, officials from other public institutions and central banks, and specialists from international organizations will focus discussions on the development of environmental statistics, the 2010 round of popul…
27 - 29 Nov
2017, 06:00 - 15:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
Given the breadth and complexity of the themes for the preparation and implementation of the next population and housing censuses in their different phases and dimensions the seminar will focus on sharing national experiences on technological innovations implemented or to be implemented by countries of the region in the 2020 census round. The scope of the use of technologies in census processes could range from strategic design to analysis and dissemination of information. The Seminar was addressed to officials of the National Statistical Institutes of the region who work in the team of Popula…
Among Caribbean statistical offices, there is widespread awareness of the issue of statistical confidentiality which has often led to quite strong restrictions on the availability of detailed and disaggregated census tables. In North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, statistical offices use disclosure control methods, particularly methods involving some form of data perturbation, to safely publish detailed and disaggregated census tables. These methods are not used in the Caribbean (or Latin America) but could safely facilitate the release of much more detailed census tables than has…
Caribbean statistical offices will be carrying out the next round of population and housing censuses between 2020 and 2022. Population censuses provide perhaps the most fundamental of all government statistics. Census data are used to inform research, policymaking, planning and service delivery as well as being necessary for the calculation of many other official statistics.
Population censuses, which collect data from every household in the country, are the largest statistical exercise carried out by governments. Previous census rounds have presented real organisational and technical challeng…