proposed project for the regional advancement of statistics in the caribbean (prasc) seminar on...

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!

Comments are welcome

Pour des informations en français, n’hésitez pas à me contacter.

Eric.Rancourt@Statcan.gc.ca