Presentation by Dr. Philomen Harrison

1. CARIBBEAN OPEN DATA CONFERENCE AND CODE SPRINT:
DEVELOPING THE CARIBBEAN
STATISTICS AND OPEN DATA
by
PHILOMEN HARRISON
CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY SECRETARIAT
PORT OF SPAIN-KINGSTON-SANTO DOMINGO
26-27 JANUARY 2012

2. STATISTICS AND OPEN DATA
1. BACKGROUND - THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COMMUNITY
AND OPEN DATA
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) organized a Seminar on
Emerging Trends in Data Communication during the period of the
Forty-first (41st) session of the United Nations Statistical Commission
(UNSC) and which was held at the UN Headquarters, New York, in
February 2010. The seminar was intended to share the experiences of
statistical managers and non-statisticians on new approaches to
disseminating data to users and on demands being made on statistical
offices as disseminators of statistics. In particular, the seminar informed
participants about the innovations in the communication of data and on
movements towards open data. Expositions of new products that can be
created by non-statistical persons were presented and the implications
discussed. Among the keynote speeches was one delivered by Hans
Rosling, Founder of the Gapminder Foundation, Sweden.
The UNSC, which comprises member states of the UN, international
organizations engaged in or supporting the development of statistics, is
the apex entity in the international statistical system, setting and
approving statistical standards. The organization of this seminar showed
that the international statistical community had an awareness of changes
taking place in the emerging trends in making data available to users.
The seminar also served to sensitise the statistical community as a whole
to the concept of open data.
Among the issues raised or assertions discussed at this seminar were:
 On public access to data-Statistics should be made freely available
to users;
 The means of achieving open access to data were that data should
be free, and the reusability of it should be free.
 The approach of open licensing it was stated, makes it possible to
grant permission to access, reuse and redistribute work with few or
no restrictions. This led to consideration of the approach of
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3. Creative Commons which is used by the Australia Bureau of
Statistics (ABS) for copyrighting their online statistics including
their customized statistical tables. Users can freely use, reuse,
change and distribute even commercially the ABS Statistics. There
is no limit to the quantity of data. ABS only asks for
acknowledgement as the source of the data and they found that
free access accelerates use.
 There were some concerns that statistical offices are not user-
oriented.
 It was also stated that it is likely that non-statisticians can
through innovations use the statistics produced by statistical
agencies to create new products that are more user-oriented- user-
friendly, less boring, easier to understand.
 The view was also expressed that the statistical community is
perhaps not making full use of spatial data in disseminating
outputs. Spatial data systems development was emphasized as an
integral part of data dissemination-providing area profiles;
performing on the map analysis; enabling different visualization of
the same data etc.
 On the quantity of data to be accessed - it was stated that data are
everywhere and goes beyond data available from official statistics
and that “more data is better”.
 Understanding the data is vital. Metadata are important for
enabling an understanding of the meaning of the data. It adds
value to the data. It was contended that “More data is better” only
if there is an understanding of the meaning of the data, and
 Micro data files are important statistical outputs;
Two questions were raised on:
o How to present the right data with the right context to meet users
needs?
o How to ensure that the most recent and most correct data are used
and displayed?
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4. In sum, it was stated that access to information is a key to open
government. „Public access to government –held information allows
individuals to better understand the role of government and decisions
being made on their behalf‟. (Carter Centre)
2. THE CASE FOR STATISTICS AS A KEY CATEGORY OF OPEN DATA
STATISTICS AS A PUBLIC GOOD
Among the justification for Open Data include the assertion that public
money is used to fund the work that is created by a government
institution and therefore it should be universally available. In
microeconomics the justification relies on the concept of public goods. It
is argued that public goods if left to markets may be under-produced in
that resources are not under-allocated to its production and hence the
reason why they are produced by governments.
In effect, the emergence of statistics was based on the needs of states
to collect data- in its early origins therefore statistics was known as the
“science of the state (craft)”- and was concerned with the collecting
and classifying of data by governmental and often centralised
administrative bodies.
The use of statistics is said to date back to census taking in early Egypt
and the Roman Empire to provide money to fund wars. Citizens were
counted and the evaluation of taxation was secured through the early
census in Rome In the early days data were collected by the state for
framing military and fiscal policies and these were:
a. Age and sex of the population of the country- to enable the
government to have an idea of the “potential” person-power so that
it can safeguard itself against aggression or attacks from outside.
b. Property and wealth of the country- to provide information that
can determine the new taxes that can be introduced and levies on
property and wealth.
In England the most famous early census is that of the 'Domesday Book'.
The Domesday Book was a census of English landowners and their
resources soon after the Norman conquest.
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5. Among the modern censuses was the 1666 census of the 3215
inhabitants of New France (now Canada). In Europe the first complete
demographic census was that in Sweden in 1749. The first federal
census in the USA took place in 1790, and it was to establish a basis for
representation in Congress as well as the allocation of taxes. The first
complete demographic censuses in both Britain and France occurred in
1801. Despite these early uses of statistics, the use of statistics goes far
beyond the electoral, legislative and fiscal uses of the census. Statistics
now play a critical role in private decision-making. Therefore as a public
good one can argue that statistics should be freely available for use,
reuse by the public.
PRINICIPLES GUIDING THE PUBLIC USE OF STATISTICS
The Preamble of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (FPOS)
which was adopted by the UN Statistical Commission in 1994 states that
official statistical information is an essential basis for development in the
economic, demographic, social and environmental fields and for mutual
knowledge and trade among the States and peoples of the world . It
emphasizes the essential trust of the public in official statistics. The
Preamble recognizes the role of citizens, enterprises in providing
appropriate and reliable data to ensure that quality statistics are
collected. Further the cooperation that is required between users and
producers to meet user‟s needs was recognized.
From the UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics some key
principles that inform the provision of data are listed below.
Principle 1 focuses on the significance of providing the public with
data:
Official statistics provide an indispensable element in the information
system of a democratic society, serving the Government, the economy
and the public with data about the economic, demographic, social and
environmental situation. To this end, official statistics that meet the test
of practical utility are to be compiled and made available on an
impartial basis by official statistical agencies to honor citizens'
entitlement to public information.(FPOS, 1994)
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6. Principle 3 on the presentation of metadata
To facilitate a correct interpretation of the data, the statistical agencies
are to present information according to scientific standards on the
sources, methods and procedures of the statistics produced.
Principle 4 on the misuse of statistics
The statistical agencies are entitled to comment on erroneous
interpretation and misuse of statistics.
Principle 6 on the confidentiality of Individual Data
Individual data collected by statistical agencies for statistical
compilation, whether they refer to natural or legal persons, are to be
strictly confidential and used exclusively for statistical purposes.
Principle 7 making the laws public:
The laws, regulations and measures under which the statistical
systems operate are to be made public.
The above international principles are guidelines for countries relative to
collection, compilation and use of official statistics. However on an
individual country basis the Statistics Act specifies the powers vested in
countries to collect information and what information to collect and also
to disseminate the data collected.
3. DATA COMPILATION AND DISSEMINATION IN CARICOM
POWER TO COLLECT INFORMATION- CONFIDENTIALITY
PROVISIONS
National Statistical Offices and national statistical producing agencies
(which comprise the National Statistical System) collect and disseminate
a number of statistical data sets. Power to Collect Information and
Supremacy of the Act: The current Acts of most of the CARICOM
Member States and Associate Member States give much power to the
relevant statistical authority to collect statistical information. However,
some Acts do not extend to all suppliers of information; also, the
supremacy of the Act in this regard over existing privacy legislation is not
addressed in some of the Acts. The provisions of the Barbados Statistics
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7. Act, the Statistical Institute of Belize Act 2006 and the Bermuda
Statistics Act 2002 appear to be the most comprehensive in the power
granted and have influenced the recommended provisions.
Confidentiality of Information: The current Acts of most of the
CARICOM Member States and Associate Member States adequately
address the confidentiality of information.
The CARICOM Secretariat does not collect data directly but compiles
data submitted by its member countries. Visits to the websites of
countries also assist the Secretariat in filling the data gaps. Largely, Data
are disseminated mainly electronically on our website but if funding is
available we would print limited hardcopies. Missing data are identified
as such therefore estimates are not made in these cases.
CHALLENGES IN PRODUCING STATISTICS IN COUNTRIES
Statistical offices in CARICOM are being asked to produce more with
less. Some of the key challenges are;
 Small size- small island developing states (SIDS)- underscoring
small size of some of the statistical offices/agencies and in general
the lack of absorption capacity to training/technical assistance
developed.
 Staffing – lack of trained statistical staff;
 Increased demand for statistics in an environment of declining
resources, resulting in critical data gaps;
 Non-response to questionnaires and surveys carried out by the
NSOs;
 Outdated legislative frameworks;
 Need to stay relevant (by providing timely and user-friendly data) in
a changing environment;
 Uncoordinated national statistical systems (NSS);
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8.  Inadequate information technology (IT) resources;
 Need for a focus on strategic planning (NSDS framework) to
produce high-quality statistics to support regional and national
policy objectives;
 Weak satellite units – line ministries often have inadequate
statistical and IT capacity.
SUPPORT TO THE PRODUCTION AND DISSEMINATION OF
STATISTICS
 The CARICOM Secretariat along with other organizations executes
statistical capacity-building activities in member states to enable
the production of key data. These capacity-building activities are
financed by donors that seem to be stepping up relative to the
delivery of more substantial support to statistics through the
CARICOM Secretariat. In the past funding of these activities has
been available in spurts and affect the sustainability of the
activities. Highlights of some support provided are given below.
 In recent years through funding received by the European Union
Support to the compilation and development of statistics have
been provided in a number areas including: the implementation of
statistical programming; IT infrastructure- organization of
databases and introduction of a web-based system for data
submission; improvement in National Accounts Source Data; Trade
in Services; Merchandise Trade; ICT Statistics, Social/Gender and
Environment Statistics; Training in Sampling, Management;
Classifications; etc.
 The above have been supported through funding from the IDB-
Regional Public Good Facility in three areas- Common Census
Framework ( in collaboration with UNFPA); Project support on A
Common Framework for the Production Statistics: Model Statistics
Bill; Further Development of the Regional Statistical Work
Programme (RSWP) which was approved by the Community
Council of Ministers in 2005; Data Warehousing Archiving;
Common Literacy Survey Support;
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9.  Support by DFID and the EU to the Common Census Framework
in specific areas;
 UNICEF- DevInfo Data Dissemination and with the UNSD on
CensusInfo Dissemination Sofware. The DevInfo software which
was developed by the UN system for the dissemination of
development indicators is also intended to be used to disseminate
a wide range of data. The DevInfo version is web-enabled and
disseminated data, metadata and maps;
 UNSD also on the Implementation of the 2008 SNA as well as
Eurostat/EU support in this area;
 In past years there has been support from CIDA and USAID in
Trade in Services Statistics; UNSD, World Bank Trust Fund,
UNFPA and UNDP. Statistical capacity building in the region is
also conducted by the Caribbean Technical Assistance Centre
(CARTAC) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and
the Caribbean (ECLAC) also execute statistical capacity-building
activities in the Region.
 The Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (SCCS), a
forum of heads of National Statistical Offices, representatives
regional and international organizations, universities, has been
focusing on issues pertaining to the improvement of the range and
quality of statistics; the harmonisation of the statistics; and the
facilitating of South-South co-operation, sharing of best practices
and networking. A major sub-group of the SCCS is the CARICOM
Advisory Group on Statistics (AGS) which works between the
meetings of the SCCS in providing support to the advancing of
some of the decisions.
MAIN DATA SETS PRODUCED
Some of the main data sets that are produced across the Region are:
 Population and Housing Census Data- 16 Member States and
Associate Members of CARICOM have already conducted the 2010
Round of Census which is the most recent Round. For a few
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10. countries tables area already available. Other countries are in the
process of cleaning their data. Tables are generated to provide
information on the Population of a country and the housing stock
in a number of areas
 National Accounts Data are also produced by countries, including
mainly GDP by Industry – Current and Constant Prices; GDP by
Expenditure- Current Prices.
 Retail Price Index – from which is derived the rate of inflation. The
frequency of this data set is monthly.
 Labour Force Statistics – including the unemployment rate
produced by most countries with the exception of most of the
countries of the Eastern Caribbean. Work is in progress in this
area with these countries.
 Industrial Production index and Producer Price index as well as
Trade indices;
 Merchandise Trade Statistics- data on Imports, Exports, Total
Trade
 Balance of Payments Statistics; including Foreign Direct
Investment;
 External Debt Statistics;
 Government Statistics- Central Government Revenue and
Expenditure
 International Trade in Services Statistics;
 Social/Demographic Statistics- Education, Migration; Health.
Crime Statistics;
 Tourism Statistics/ Tourism Satellite Accounts (few countries);
 Environment Statistics. Information Communication Technologies
(ICT) statistics represent fairly new areas of statistics;
 Agriculture Statistics, Energy and other statistics nes.
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11. ONLINE DISSEMINATION OF DATA
Increasingly countries are becoming paperless and are using electronic
media and the Internet to disseminate statistics. Countries with their
own websites are: Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint
Lucia and Suriname. Countries that disseminate their statistics on their
Central Government websites are Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas
and St Vincent and the Grenadines, Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin
Islands and Cayman Islands, Those countries that we can see do not
have websites are Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat and St Kitts and
Nevis.
A wide range of information is disseminated on the websites of the
NSOs. A documentation of some of the information for Belize, Trinidad
and Tobago, Saint Lucia and Jamaica are given in the Attachment. For
Belize, Trinidad and Tobago and Saint Lucia all data and dissemination
products on these websites are free. For Jamaica all the data are free but
there are statistical publications that are for sale at a nominal cost.
The fact is the statistical websites present a seabed of data that are
available free to the public consistent with the open data concept. The
website of the CARICOM Secretariat (www.caricomstats.org) to some
extent is reusing and redistributing the data produced by countries,
creating new products, for example, Intra-regional trade or CARICOM
Total Trade by trading partners. The data that are compiled and
disseminated are those submitted by countries. Therefore the new
products that are produced are also available freely on the Secretariat‟s
website.
POSITION ON ACCESS TO MICRO DATA
The Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (SCCS) at its Thirty-
Fifth meeting held in November 2011 in Dominica approved a position on
Access to Micro data which was brought forward by the AGS. The
position adopted by the SCCS was as follows:
(i) Access to all statistical data, whether microdata or tabular data
shall be strictly in accordance with the Statistics Acts of CARICOM
Member States and Associate Members;
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12. (ii) Member States and Associate Members are encouraged to establish
mechanisms for disclosure prevention, such as data
anonymisation and to provide access to microdata under controlled
conditions, such as microdata laboratories and
(iii) International organizations are encouraged to build capacity at the
national level and support the establishment of these mechanisms
in CARICOM Member States and Associate Members
Under the above conditions users can have access to microdata.
Table 1 List of Member States & Associate States with web-sites
MEMBER STATE/ WEBSITE GOVERNMENT WEBSITE/SUB-DOMAIN
ASSOCIATE STATE
Anguilla http://www.gov.ai/statistics/
Antigua and www.ab.gov.ag/gov_v2government/sta
Barbuda tsandreports
Barbados www.barstats.gov.bb
The Bahamas http://statistics.bahamas.gov.bs/
Belize www.statisticsbelize.org.bz
British Virgin http://dpu.gov.vg/main.htm
Islands
Bermuda http://www.gov.bm/portal/server.pt
Cayman Islands http://www.eso.ky/index.php
Dominica None None
Grenada None None
Guyana www.statisticsguyana.gov.gy
Haiti http://www.ihsi.ht/
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13. MEMBER STATE/ WEBSITE GOVERNMENT WEBSITE/SUB-DOMAIN
ASSOCIATE STATE
Jamaica www.statinja.com
Montserrat None None
Saint Lucia www.stats.gov.lc
St.Kitts and Nevis None None
St.Vincent and the http://stats.gov.vc/
Grendaines
Suriname www.statistics-suriname.org
Trinidad and www.cso.gov.tt
Tobago
Turks and Caicos http://www.depstc.org/ None
Islands
4. ACCESS, REUSABILITY AND REDISTRIBUTION – SOME GUIDELINES
Open data implies that data are free, are based on open standards and
are freely usable.
As indicated in Section 3, many data series are freely available online.
However liberating of data relative to its reuse should take into
consideration the questions asked earlier at the UN Seminar - on the
understanding of the data by users and on how to ensure that the data
are correct. Some guidelines for ensuring proper reusing the statistics are
highlighted below.
Copyright Issues/acknowledgement- Creative Commons
 It is necessary that there is attribution for the statistical authority
from whom the data are derived. The Creative Commons approach
with few restrictions with respect to use is instructive.
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14. Sources of Data
 Detailed data sources must be provided. Where different sources of
data are indicated this should be clearly stated. Ideally the data
should be country data;
Estimating for missing data
 Estimates for missing data at the level of reusing the data should
be discouraged or should only be undertaken by relevant statistical
experts and in consultation with the statistical authority. The UN
Economic and Social Council Resolution 2006/6 calls for
greater transparency among other issues by the avoidance of
imputations unless reliable country data are available for reliable
imputations following consultations with countries concerned and
through transparent methodologies. For example Gapminder
Foundation on its website under sources for a specific data series
stated that: Gapminder has combined the data ….from several
sources such as official international statistics, various historical
sources and own estimates. There is also an additional note for this
same data series in capital letters: “ WE DISCOURAGE THE USE
OF THIS DATA SET FOR STASTICAL ANALYSIS. PLEASE
CONSULT THE FULL DOCUMENTATION FOR MORE DETAILS.
Explanations about the data- Metadata
 Explanations about the data must be provided as mentioned
before. these are the metadata that are documented by the
statistical offices/agencies and would include the data sources
which are normally provided.
Statistics Acts and release of Microdata
 Confidentiality provisions as enshrined in the Statistics Acts
which are the laws of the country should be respected. In the
context of the position of micro data percentage of anonymysed
sample can be provided to users.
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15. 5. THE WAY FORWARD -OPEN DATA AS A CATALYST FOR IMPROVING
STATISTCS
The thrust towards Open Data in the Caribbean can be a catalyst for the
improvement in the quality and range of statistics produced and
disseminated by statistical offices and agencies.
The reusability of the statistics through increased innovations in creating
dissemination products will increase the use of statistics and therefore
add value to statistics.
The Open data movement in the Caribbean will therefore bring Statistical
offices and agencies into focus through the increased access to the data
produced in statistics. This would place demands on the statistical
offices and agencies to produce high quality data that are timely and
reliable.
In addition greater interaction with users will be a requirement to ensure
that the products satisfy users‟ needs. There has always been a need for
the National Statistical Systems across the region to be strengthened and
effectively coordinated and more so with Statistics and Open data this
presents an opportunity to reinforce the statistical infrastructure to
enable the availability of quality data, in all the dimension of quality.
Fundamentally, statistical offices and agencies in the national statistical
systems must be adequately and appropriately resourced to deliver
the data to an increasing and more diverse group of users. Some of
these requirements include staffing IT and other equipment; quality
monitoring frameworks; training needs and issues related to the status
of the statistical office, the status of the Chief Statistician and
remuneration/conditions of work and appropriate code of
practices/ethics. Evidently, the increased focus that should be realized
in the link between Statistics and Open data should positively impact the
statistical offices and to enable them to approach if not reach the level of
leading statistical offices in the world.
International Development Partners such as the European Union, the
Canadian International Development Agency, the Government of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland under the Department for International
Development (DFID);The World Bank, the Inter-American Development
Bank, the IMF, the United Nations Population, Fund, UNICEF, UNSD,
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16. the United Nations development Fund, PARIS21, ILO have provided
support to countries or to regional organizations including the CARICOM
Secretariat, CARTAC and UNECLAC to assist the strengthening of
statistics in CARICOM.
In moving forward it is important that there be regional coordination in
terms of the provision of support to avoid duplication of efforts and to
enable greater effectiveness in the results of these efforts at capacity-
building. In addition Statisticians of the Region through the Standing
Committee of Caribbean Statisticians and the Subgroup, the CARICOM
Advisory Group on Statistics are taking steps to improve the range and
quality of statistics in CARICOM and critically the harmonisation of
statistics across the region.
Currently data are available from countries and from the CARICOM
Secretariat that can be utilized in the Open Data. However much more
can be achieved if there is alignment to a comprehensive programme of
strengthening statistical capacity across the region that can lessen the
data gaps and improve the range and quality of statistics while improving
the status of statistical offices and the profession of statistics.
Central to the process of strengthening capacity increased investment
in statistics by Governments at the national level- the central
statistical office and agencies in the National Statistical System as this
can lead to the elevation of the statistical offices and better data for
decision-making.
Statistics is an important category for the Open data development in
CARICOM and the process of providing data to this cause can redound to
the development of the national statistical systems across member
countries of CARICOM.
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17. ATTACHMENT
Research on CARICOM Member States , Stat Websites – 15 January 2012
(Belize, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica)
Belize
1. News letter – subscribe
2. Official release of the main results of the 2010 population and housing census
3. Belize Consumer Price Index (CPI) for February 2011
4. Employment opportunities / Census operation
5. 2010 2nd quarter GDP – press release
6. “Did you know” – CPI; Census information; Agriculture / Industry sector;
7. Abstract of Statistics – 2009
8. Web pages:
a. Belize facts & maps;
b. Belize statistics vs. UK, USA and Canada
c. Launches in 2010 PHC
d. Demographic information
9. Statistics:
a. Census jingle
b. CPI (4)
c. External Trade (15)
d. Labour Force (4)
e. Legislature (1) – statistical act
f. Miscellaneous
g. SIB reports
10. New documents – PHC press release
11. Hot documents – not active
12. External Trade: (no. of times items downloaded – low as 1528 to high as 2478)
a. Trade statistics , 2000-2008 – last updated 24/2/2009
b. Belize External Trade bulletin – 2007 – 2009 Dec – last updated 11/3/2010
13. Publications
a. Census 2000 questionnaire
b. 1999 family health survey – females
c. 1999 family health survey- males
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18. d. In depth analysis of child hood education
e. National report on the results of child activity
f. Qualitative analysis of child care
g. Poverty assessment - 2002
h. Organizational chart
14. “Know your statistics” –
a. Census 2000 major findings
b. LFS book marker
c. 2011 PHC preliminary results
15. Population
a. 2007/2008 mid-year population estimates by age group and sex – last updated
14/3/2008
b. 2007/2008 mid-year population estimates by region and sex
c. Total population estimates and projections – 2007 updated
d. 2009 mid-year population estimates
e. Official release of the main results of PHC 2010
16. CPI
a. CPI – Basket and weights – last updated: 5/2/2008
b. Introduction to CPI
c. Press release on inflation data for February 2011
d. CPI – (up to Aug. 2011)
17. National Accounts
a. Annual GDP – 2000-2008
b. 2nd quarter 2009 GDP analysis
c. Economic statistics for 2009
d. 1st quarter GDP 2011
e. Quarterly GDP (3rd Q 2011)
18. Labour Force
a. LF indicators (2002-2006)
b. Main LF indicators Apr. , Sep, 2007
c. Main LF indicators – Apr. 2006 – may 2008
19. SIB reports
a. SIB financial reports. 2007
b. 2008 auditors’ reports
c. SIB Annual report 2007/08
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19. 20. Miscellaneous
a. 2008/09 – hh expenditure survey
b. SIB – latest statistics – 2008
c. Analysis – CPI exercise
d. MIC’s children wall chart
e. 2008 annual inflation ratio status at 6.4 %
f. Abstract 2008 Ad flyer
g. Living Standard measurement survey – AD
h. GDP -1st Q 2009 – press release
i. May 2009 CPI certificate
21. 2010 Population and Housing Census
a. 2010 PHC press release
b. Speeches
c. Census job applications
d. Main findings
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Saint Lucia
1. Publications
a. 2010 PHC preliminary report (updated Apr. 2011)
b. Census 2010 community ranking
c. 2001 PHC – final report
d. Core welfare indicators questionnaire (CWIQ) report 2004
e. Saint Lucia social poverty and poverty reduction policy and practices , 2004
f. PRF Input evaluation report 2003 – poverty
g. Poverty assessment survey report – 1995
h. Compendium of environment statistics 2001
i. Vital statistics report -1994 to 2003
j. Annual statistical digest – 1997 to 2002, 2006
k. Economic & social review -2002 – 2005
l. Educational statistics digest -1999 – 2005
m. Analysis of trade - commodities by years – 1999-2002
n. Foreign Trade Price Indices report
o. Gender statistics
p. Price statistics – CPI-1998
q. Earnings statistics; hours earnings 1999-2003
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20. 2. Labour Force
a. Labour Productivity Report – 2003
b. National account Statistics – 1977 – 2001 – sources and method of calculation, GDP
c. A guide for completing national accounts questionnaire
3. Web pages:
a. Statistical digest
b. Publication and annual statistical digest
c. Digest of education statistics – national center for education
d. Statistical digest – South Dakota, dept. of education
4. Questionnaires:
a. PHC – 2001
b. Living Condition survey – 2005 (periodicity: 5 to 8 yrs.)
c. LF survey (continuous / quarterly)
d. Youth employment (Continuous / quarterly)
e. National accounts (annually – Feb. Mar.)
f. Balance of Payments (annual, Mar.- July)
g. Earnings and hours worked – Annual / Nov.
h. Foreign Trade Price indices – (continuous / quarterly)
i. Business Opinion survey – (to be announced /quarterly)
j. Prices survey – (2nd week of each month)
k. Industrial survey – monthly / continuous)
5. Statistical act
6. National Accounts:
a. GDP growth – (2006)
b. Unemployment rate – 2006
c. Inflation rate – 2006
d. LF – 2006
e. Current account balance – 2006
f. Selected indicators – 2006
7. Archive data:
a. Constant prices – 1990-1996,
b. GDP by expenditure: 1997-2006
c. Current prices
d. Balance of payments
e. Survey methods
f. National income questionnaire
g. National income allocation
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21. 8. Tourism Statistics (tourists by numbers)
a. Monthly visitor arrivals: 2001-2008
b. Monthly tourists arrival: 1996-2006
c. Cruise ship passenger arrivals : 2000-2008
d. Cruise ship calls: 2000-2008
e. Yacht passengers arrivals: 2001-2008
f. Hotel occupancy – 2003-2006
g. Tourists arrivals by
 type of accommodation;
 length of stay;
 main purpose;
 country of origin;
 country of residence
9. General Elections
10. Production of major commodities – 1976- 1984
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Trinidad & Tobago
1. Agriculture statistics:
a. Poultry statistics – 2010
b. Api culture and Aquaculture bulletin – 2009
c. Disposal of pork by type of marketing outlets
d. Agriculture census preliminary results- 2004
e. Tree crops under cultivation- No. of private holders by area of residence
f. Disposal of livestock production – 2003
g. Area of non-tree crops under cultivation
2. Business statistics:
a. Census of establishments – 2010
b. No. of business establishments by employment size and industry, 2010;
c. Survey of establishment by type – all forms
3. Crime statistics
a. No. of serious crimes reported, cases detected, arrested and persons convicted –
1998
b. Report on crime statistics – 2008
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22. 4. Economic Indicators:
a. Index of retail sales, 2001-2006
b. Index of Productivity : 1998-2005
c. Index of hours worked: 1998-2005
d. Index of industrial sales: 2004-2005
e. Index of employment: 1997-2004
f. Index of domestic production: -2005
g. Index of Av. Weekly earnings – 1997-2005
h. Index of employment production workers – 1996-2009
5. Education statistics:
a. Employment in primary schools by type and Admin areas, 2006,2007
b. Schools by type, size and Admin area, 2006/2007
c. No. of Gov./assisted schools by admin area – 1991-2000
d. Employment in public / secondary school by type and admin area, sex, type of
school, 1999/2000
6. Environment statistics
a. Air quality 1990
b. Compendium : chapters 1 to 10, data produced from 1982 – 2004
7. Labour Force statistics
a. LF bulletin 3rd quarter – 2010
b. Hours worked all employees, 1996 – 2009
c. Earnings production workers , 1996-2009
d. Summary indicators of women and men participation in LF, 1996-2000
e. LF bulletin, Quarterly, 2004, 2005, 2006
f. Percentage of economically active women by major occupation group, 2000
g. % of no. of women and men employed, 1996-2000
h. Leading economic indicators – 1955-2004
8. Manufacturing statistics:
a. Production by all employees, 2006-2011
b. Hours worked, all employees, 2006-2011
c. Index of av. Weekly earnings, 2006-2011
d. Index of industrial sales, 2006-2011
e. Index of producer’s prices, 2006-2011
f. Selected foods, 2006-2011
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23. 9. National Accounts:
a. GDP, current/constant prices, 2006- 2010
b. Selected leading indicators:
c. GDP current prices by industry, 1966-2004
d. Expenditure on GDP, 1970-2002
e. Per capita GDP, 1966-2003
f. GDP- 2002-2006
g. National Income report, 2000-2006
h. GDP on other selected indicators, 2009
10. Population:
a. Mid- year population estimates: 1960-2010
11. Prices:
a. RPI -2011
b. Index of retail prices, 2004-2007
12. Social Indicators:
a. Household Budgetary survey, 2007/08 and 2008/09
13. Tourism statistics
a. Carnival Report, 2004
14. Trade Statistics
a. Apr. 2011 summary Trade tables
b. Feb. 2011, summary trade tables
c. Feb. 2011 Trade bulletin
d. March 2011 summary trad tables
e. Apr. 2011 trade bulletin
f. Feb. 2011, trade bulletin
g. March 2011, trade bulletin
h. January 2011, summary trade tables
i. Dec. 2010, trade bulletin
j. Jan 2011, trade tables
k. Oct. summary tables
l. Trade Tables, Dec. 2003
m. Trade bulletin, July 2003
n. Trade table 1-8, June 2005
o. Apr 2010, Trade bulletin
15. Travel statistics
a. All passengers arrivals by type of carrier, July 2002
b. All passengers arrivals by purpose of visit, July 2002
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24. c. All passenger arrivals by port of embarkation, July 2002
d. All passengers arrivals by occupation, July 2002
e. All passenger arrivals by age group, July 2002
f. Travel Bulletin, 2004
16. Vital Statistics
a. Live births table 8, 2006
b. Live births tables, 2005
c. Marriages by religious denomination, 1986-2005
d. Marriages tables
e. Maternities tables
f. Still births, 2005-2006
g. Concepts and definitions
h. Divorces table, 2005, 2006
i. Live births and still births, 2005, 2006
j. Brides and bride grooms tables, 2005
k. Deaths by age group and area, 1999
l. Fertility, mortality and other rates, 1997-1999
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Jamaica
1. Economic statistics
 Int’l Merchandise Trade
 Production
 National Accounts
 Price indices
2. Labour Market & Earnings
a. Labour force
b. Employment & earnings
3. Demographic and Social Statistics
a. Population
b. Births, deaths & migration
c. Marriages and divorces
d. Methodology
4. Censuses
a. Agriculture
b. Population and Housing
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25. 5. Environment
a. Imports of motor vehicles, 2001 – 2004
b. Use of irrigation by methods, 2007
6. National Statistics System
a. Support for development of national statistic system project
(i) Workshop
(ii) Workshop agenda
(iii) Project board members
(iv) Project team
(v) Presentations:
 Caricom- statistics, regional
 Caricom statistics, social
 Economic statistics
 Framework for environment statistics corporate starategies
 Official statistics
 PARIS21
 Importation of data and lesson learned
 Vision 2030 Jamaica
 Public sector
7. Trade
a. Imports by S.I.T.C sections, 2007-2011 (last updated 5/1/2012)
b. Exports by S.I.T.C. sections, 2007-2011 (last updated 5/1/2012)
c. Traditional and Bob-traditional domestic exports, 2007-2011
8. Production:
a. Volume of Prod. Of specified manufactured products, 2006-2008
b. Volume of prod. Of specified agriculture crops, 2006-2008
c. Volume of prod. In the mining sector, 2006-2008
9. Prices:
a. Consumer price index, - 2011
b. Inflation rate, 2011
c. Producer’s price indices, 2011
 Mining, 2011
 Manufacturing, 2011
10. National Accounts
a. GDP – main aggregates and per capita indices -2006-2010
b. GDP- expenditure, annual, 2006-2010
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26. c. GDP- by income, 2001-2010
d. Gross value added by industry by constant/current prices, 2001-2010
e. Rate of growth of value added by industry at current / constant prices, 2001-2010
f. Tourism digest gross value added
11. Labour Market & Earnings
a. LF main indicators
b. LF main agriculture groups
c. LF main Occupational group
d. LF main Industrial group
e. LF pop. 14 yrs. and over by economic activity
f. LF (female stats)
g. LF (male stats)
h. Employed LF by age group
i. Employed LF by Industry
j. Employed LF by Occupational group
k. Unemployed LF by age group
l. Unemployed LF by occupational group
m. Unemployed LF by industrial group
n. Persons outside of LF by age group and sex
12. Subscriptions:
a. CPI 2007, annual review USD 10
b. Demographic statistics, 2007, USD 8
c. Employment & Earnings, 2007, USD 7
d. External Trade, 2004, USD 8
e. LF statistics, 2007, USD 8
f. National income and Product produced, USD 16
g. Pocket book of statistics ,2003, USD 6
h. Production statistics, 2007 USD 7
i. Producer’s price index, 2008, USD 11
j. Producer price index bulletin, USD 3
k. CPI bulletin, 2010 4 Q, USD 3
l. Quarterly GDP, 2009, USD 6
m. Survey of living conditions, USD 35
n. Employment statistics 2003 & mineral account, USD 20
o. Jamaica environment in your pocket book, USD 4
p. Environment statistics & SOE 2001, USD 11
q. Household & Environment, 2002, USD 6
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27. r. Environment statistics 2005 and water, USD 20
s. LF bulletin, USD 4
t. Pop. Census 2001, country - USD 22
u. Pop. Census 2001, age and sex, vol. 2 – USD 28
v. Pop. Census 2001, education , part A, USD 18
w. Pop. Census2001, Housing vol. 4 – USD 13
13. Feedback
14. Confidential statement – terms and conditions of data use
15. NEWS:
a. Media Advisory- statistical statements for:
(i) CPI
(ii) PPI
(iii) GDP
(iv) Trade
(v) LF
(vi) Census
16. Maps:
a. Available map product, 1070, 1082, 1991 and 2001
 Special area maps
 Parish maps
 Map of Jamaica
 Constituents map
b. GIS services offered by the unit
 Geo-references of boundaries
 Merging of census data to community and ED
 Creation of vector images
 Design of map books and atlas
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