Patterns of penetration of ICT goods and services in Latin American and Caribbean households: analysis based on data from national population and housing censuses, round 2000

This paper explores the usefulness of data deriving from Population and Housing Censuses in Latin America and the Caribbean, in the 2000 Round, in order to describe the patterns of penetration of ICT goods in the households of the countries in the region. With this purpose in mind, the report approaches the following issues: The availability of information on ICTs in the 2000 Census Round. Characteristics of the instruments used for registering and measuring the ownership of ICT goods. The penetration of the various kinds of ICT goods. Profile description of households with greatest connectivi…

Census Round 2020: Developing census data products to support research, planning and policymaking

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…

Recomendaciones para los censos de población y vivienda en América Latina. Revisión 2020

En el presente documento se expone la actualización metodológica y conceptual del documento “Recomendaciones para los censos de la década de 2010 en América Latina”, que la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) publicó en 2011. En su elaboración se consideraron las recomendaciones que se presentan en el documento Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Revision 3, publicado por las Naciones Unidas en 2017; el debate que tuvo lugar en el seminario Aspectos Conceptuales de los Censos de Población y Vivienda, realizado en Santiago en 2018, y la exp…

Evento paralelo: ¿Cómo lograr la integración de datos estadísticos y geoespaciales en la Agenda 2030 con el aporte de la sociedad civil? Ideas y herramientas. Organizado por Fundación Geocensos

Este evento está organizado por la Fundación Geocensos y CELADE-División d Población de la CEPAL participa como panelistas. El objetivo es presentar constructivamente, ideas y experiencias que contribuyan a resolver los desafíos técnicos que surgirán naturalmente al buscar compartir datos geoespaciales y estadísticos apoyando la generación de los indicadores de la agenda 2030.…

Seminario Regional de Naciones Unidas sobre Diseminación y Análisis Espacial de Información Censal

El propósito del seminario es ofrecer un foro propicio para compartir prácticas y experiencias en temas de diseminación y uso de la información censal.…

Base de datos MATERNILAC-Caribe: por primera vez se incluyen tablas de maternidad según nivel educativo

Adicional a las 12 nuevas tablas incluidas hace unas pocas semanas, ahora los usuarios y visitantes de MATERNILAC-Caribe encontrarán 2 nuevas tablas con información censal estandarizada sobre nivel educativo y maternidad, siempre desagregando por edades simples y grupos de edad.…

Redatam renueva su diseño web para brindar una mejor experiencia de usuario

La web ha sido rediseñada por el equipo Redatam para mejorar la experiencia de los usuarios y visitantes en la descarga, procesamiento y uso de la información e indicadores, tabulados y gráficos, así como el acceso a los diferentes manuales, boletines y noticias relevantes.…

Dissemination of Caribbean census microdata to researchers: Including an experiment in the anonymization of microdata for Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean census microdata are not easily accessible to researchers. Although there are well-established and commonly used procedures technical, administrative and legal which are used to disseminate anonymized census microdata to researchers, they have not been widely used in the Caribbean. The small size of Caribbean countries makes anonymization relatively more difficult and standard methods are not always directly applicable. This study reviews commonly used methods of disseminating census microdata and considers their applicability to the Caribbean. It demonstrates the application of st…

Report of the twenty-ninth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Statistical disclosure control for Caribbean census tables: A proposal to expand the availability of disaggregated census data

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…

The use of census data for national development planning Focus on the 2010 population and housing census

For many Caribbean countries the only mechanisms in place to systematically collect information on socio-demographic, economic, environmental and other issues of national importance are the Population and Housing Census and the Country Poverty Assessment studies. Country Poverty Assessment studies, however, have limitations of sample size and therefore do not provide information on relatively rare events nor can it provide small area data. Consequently, the Population and Housing Census is often the only source of valuable information needed for planning and management, and research. The purpo…

The Regional Coordination Mechanism for the Implementation of the Mauritius Strategy

Planning for the 2020 round of population censuses in the Caribbean

The population and housing census is a major data source that was widely used by Caribbean countries to monitor their progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It also provides a potentially rich source of data for monitoring the progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A Technical Needs Assessment Survey (TNAS) of Caribbean countries to determine their proposed plans and technical needs for the 2020 round of censuses provided a basis for assessing the viability of the census to produce data for the SDG indicators. The results of the TNAS i…

Information and communications technology for people with disabilities

The latest edition of the Demographic Observatory refers to International Migration in Latin America

The number corresponding to 2018 of the Demographic Observatory is available, which offers immigration tables for 19 Latin American countries for which data were available on the population censuses of the 2000 and 2010 decades.…