A new policy brief from ECLAC Caribbean highlights areas of consideration for policy makers to ensure that official statistics produced by Caribbean countries are of the highest quality and in conformity with international standards.
ECLAC and UNFPA, in collaboration with CARICOM, will deliver a four-day workshop on census planning, management and implementation in Kingston, Jamaica.
ECLAC will equip representatives from three national statistical offices with the skills necessary to develop web applications for the dissemination of national census data sets.
Government statisticians from three countries will learn how to use the REDATAM software (REtrieval of DATa for small Areas by Microcomputer) to develop online applications for the dissemination of national census data.
ECLAC has called on Caribbean countries to develop a Big Data Strategy to ensure that they take full advantage of the data revolution for sustainable development.
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is charting the way forward for Caribbean countries to make microdata from their censuses more easily available to researchers.
