Regional statisticians will today wrap up a three-day meeting which focused on “Improving the Lives of People – Advancing the Action Plan for Statistics in CARICOM.”
This forty-first meeting of the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (SCCS) is part of a week-long series of engagements for the Statisticians, gathered in Willemstad, Curacao. On Thursday they hold the twenty-sixth meeting of the Regional Census Coordinating Committee, and on Friday the ninth Regional Statistical Research Seminar.
The Standing Committee meeting hopes to advance a number of key issues in an Action Plan for Statistics which was endorsed by CARICOM Heads of Government at their recent 37th Meeting in Guyana. That Action Plan addressed the need to strengthen statistical capacity to make statistics available to help achieve sustainable development and improve the lives and empower the people of CARICOM.
The meeting is looking at operational actions required by Governments to strengthen National Statistical Systems and specifically the National Statistical Offices. It is also examining ways to promote statistics as a data science in the curriculum of primary and secondary schools and promote the professionalization of statistics through the Caribbean Association of Professional Statisticians (CAPS). The statisticians are also seeking to advance the regional approach to the development of statistics through a common Regional Statistical Work Programme.
Thursday’s census meeting will focus on country-readiness for the conduct of the Population and Housing Census in the 2020 round and the Regional Strategy of Support aimed at enabling harmonized census data across all CARICOM countries.
Friday’s research seminar will seek to develop key recommendations on the way forward for matters related to statistics.
