Statistics

Project for the Regional Advancement of Statistics in the Caribbean (PRASC)

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The Project for the Regional Advancement of Statistics in the Caribbean (PRASC) is a Government of Canada-funded statistical capacity building project which targets 14 Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). PRASC aims to strengthen the statistical systems of the participating Caribbean countries by addressing identified gaps to improve social-economic measures and support evidence-based policy making.

The project was approved on March 3, 2015 with funding of CAD $19.5 million and an end date of March 2022.

Let’s talk about the Census!

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The CARICOM Secretariat will hold a live regional radio discussion on the Population and Housing Census now underway in the Caribbean.

CARICOM Region-Wide Launch of the 2020 Population and Housing Census

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CARICOM Region-Wide Launch of the 2020 Population and Housing Census, 3 August 2021

How COVID-19 is changing the world: a statistical perspective

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COVID-19 has turned the world upside down. Everything has been impacted. How we live and interact with each other, how we work and communicate, how we move around and travel. Every aspect of our lives has been affected.

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Climate Change Statistics: 2020

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This first publication on Climate Change Statistics for CARICOM countries contains data up to 2019 in some instances, while for other series it comprises data up to 2012/13. It aims at providing statistics on climate change for the region and follows the Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES 2013) of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and its refinements based on the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) schematic framework.

Grenada launches Census as CARICOM prepares to get counted

Grenada on Thursday, 10 June launched its National of Population and Housing Census.

The Census activities will begin on 15 September under the theme ‘Count us’. The slogan is ‘Nothing about us, without us because we all count!’

THE CARICOM REGIONAL STRATEGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STATISTICS (RSDS) - Stragegic Framework 2019-2030

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THE CARICOM REGIONAL STRATEGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STATISTICS (RSDS)
“Building Resilience of the Caribbean Community”

Regional statistics capacity-building project

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The Project for the Regional Advancement of Statistics in the Caribbean (PRASC), funded by the Canadian Government, is a seven-year initiative that begins this month. It is geared at strengthening the statistical system of the Caribbean in order to address identified gaps towards the improvement of socio-economic measures and to support evidence-based policy-making.