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Proposed Project for the Regional Advancement of Statistics in the
Caribbean (PRASC)Seminar on Multi-Dimensional Poverty
and Labour Force Estimation
Eric Rancourt
May 28, 2014
St. George’s, Grenada
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Outline
Background Consultation process The Project Future Activities
Background
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Interest in and need for statistical development and integration
Needs assessment by CARICOM and ECLAC earlier
Proposal to CIDA in 2012
Consultation Process
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Consultations took place with: Countries (ISFP, in meetings, questionnaire) CARICOM, ECLAC, OECS Obtained input from DFATD, CARTAC, CDB,
and other donors
Project
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Needs Expected results (preliminary) Content Approach Expectations
Project - Needs
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Need to improve National Accounts to adopt the SNA2008 international standard, strengthen processes and harmonize
Need to build infrastructure for business surveys (business register, classification) to increase efficiency and comparability of concepts from one survey to another
Need to improve Household surveys to benefit from more modern statistical methods and tools
Project - Needs
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Need to improve data sharing with users and providers and increase knowledge-retention within and between NSOs
Need to build methodological expertise to support new survey structures and to respond to future socio-economic changes that impact surveys
Overall need to build sustainable regional expertise and producing regionally comparable statistics
Project – Expected results (preliminary)
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Implementation of standardized concepts, methods, tools, standards and classifications strengthens the foundation for conducting Business surveys that support the System of National
Accounts Household surveys in support of collecting key socio-
economic indicators Increased communication between data users, data
providers and data producers (NSOs) that promotes use of statistics and shares knowledge on methods used to produce them
Project – Content
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National Accounts Component Business Survey Component Household Survey Component Data Sharing Component
Cross-cutting elements
• Methodological
• Regional sharing
• Gender-disaggregated statistics
Project – Approach
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Development in phases:
Learning Testing and pilots (building from current
successes) Implementation Regional sharing / Communication Broader implementation
Project – Expectations from Region
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Ownership by countries Demand-driven Commitment of resources Time investment Involvement of CARICOM and other institutions
Project – Expectations from Statistics Canada
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Project Management Commitment of resources Time investment Openness to unique situations atypical of
Statistics Canada’s context
Future Activities
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Maintain dialogue with Caribbean stakeholders and other donors (2nd HL Forum, on-going)
Statistics Canada senior Management approval (June)
Submit to CIDA (DFATD) (Fall) Intended start: March 2015 Duration: 5 years
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Thank you!
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