Year of Statistics
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Regional statisticians undergo training to design high quality questionnaires
As efforts continue to build the capacity of statistical offices in the Region, the CARICOM Secretariat has convened a workshop geared at designing high-quality questionnaires for household and business surveys. The week-long training session, which is being held in Kingston, Jamaica, began on 6 October, and is funded by the European Union under the 11th European Development Fund Programme: Strengthening…
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Food security and nutrition in focus at statistics workshop
Regional statisticians and agriculture stakeholders are participating in a workshop in Trinidad and Tobago aimed at building capacity to measure and monitor food security and nutrition (FSN). Representatives from the CARICOM Secretariat, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Ministries of Agriculture, National Statistical Offices, Food and Nutrition specialists, and other regional and international organisations, are at…
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Youth Advocacy Programme on Statistics launched
A programme to engage and empower youth to become advocates for data-driven decision-making, YSTAT, was launched during the Fourth High-Level Advocacy Forum on Statistics (HLF) in Placencia, Belize, 4 November 2024. The programme is one of the activities to mark CARICOM Year of Statistics which also was launched during the opening ceremony of the HLF on 4 November. YSTAT seeks…
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