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Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe: desarrollo de las estadísticas oficiales en la región. Informe de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe sobre el desarrollo de las estadísticas oficiales en América Latina y el Caribe

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ECLAC Development of official statistics in the region. Report of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean on the development of official statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean

Autor institucional: NU. CEPAL Descripción física: 23 p. : tabls. Editorial: CEPAL Data: setembro 2010

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This document was prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); and offers a description of the main trends in the development of official statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean and the principal challenges in that regard.The first chapter provides an analysis of the state of development of statistical production in the region, based on statistical information for 41 Latin American and Caribbean countries and eight specific areas. The institutional organization of national statistical systems in the region is also described. Chapter II examines the history and current status of mechanisms for regional and subregional coordination and of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC. Chapter III describes the main challenges for official statistics in the countries of the region and the strategies that the Statistical Conference of the Americas and ECLAC propose to implement in order to address them.