Sta­tis­ti­cal of­fi­cials from Grena­da and Ja­maica are ex­pect­ed to join their coun­ter­parts from Latin Amer­i­ca at the three day 12th meet­ing of the Sta­tis­ti­cal Con­fer­ence of the Amer­i­c­as (SCA) that gets un­der­way here on Tues­day.

The SCA is a sub­sidiary body of Eco­nom­ic Com­mis­sion­er for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and is the main fo­rum for dis­cussing the de­vel­op­ment of sta­tis­tics in the re­gion.

ECLAC said its prin­ci­pal man­dates in­clude pro­mot­ing the de­vel­op­ment and im­prove­ment of na­tion­al sta­tis­tics and their in­ter­na­tion­al com­pa­ra­bil­i­ty, along with in­ter­na­tion­al, re­gion­al and bi­lat­er­al co­op­er­a­tion be­tween na­tion­al of­fices and in­ter­na­tion­al and re­gion­al agen­cies.

The SCA’s ex­ec­u­tive com­mit­tee is cur­rent­ly chaired by Ar­genti­na and com­pris­es Cana­da, Colom­bia, the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Grena­da, Italy and Ja­maica.

ECLAC said the meet­ing to be at­tend­ed by rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Na­tion­al Sta­tis­tics Of­fices of Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean coun­tries will dis­cuss is­sues of rel­e­vance for the re­gion’s sta­tis­ti­cal de­vel­op­ment.

It said among the agen­da items will be the strength­en­ing of sta­tis­tics on the en­vi­ron­ment, cli­mate change and dis­as­ters, and progress on the im­ple­men­ta­tion of plat­forms for ac­cess to sta­tis­ti­cal and ge­o­graph­i­cal in­for­ma­tion.

ECLAC’s ex­ec­u­tive sec­re­tary José Manuel Salazar-Xiri­nachs as well as Mar­co Lavagna, Di­rec­tor-Gen­er­al of the Na­tion­al In­sti­tute of Sta­tis­tics and Cen­sus­es (IN­DEC) of Ar­genti­na, the coun­try serv­ing as Chair of the Sta­tis­ti­cal Con­fer­ence of the Amer­i­c­as of ECLAC; and Ste­fan Schwe­in­fest, Di­rec­tor of the Unit­ed Na­tions Sta­tis­tics Di­vi­sion will at­tend the meet­ing.

“At this event, mem­ber states will ad­dress the use of sta­tis­ti­cal mod­els to ex­pand the avail­abil­i­ty of dis­ag­gre­gat­ed da­ta and re­gion­al mech­a­nisms for strength­en­ing com­pli­ance with the Fun­da­men­tal Prin­ci­ples of Of­fi­cial Sta­tis­tics,” ECLAC said.

In ad­di­tion, ECLAC said they will ex­am­ine the out­comes of the Con­fer­ence’s Bi­en­ni­al Pro­gramme of Re­gion­al and In­ter­na­tion­al Co­op­er­a­tion Ac­tiv­i­ties 2022–2023, and will present and ap­prove the pro­pos­als for es­tab­lish­ing work­ing groups for the 2024–2025 pe­ri­od.

They will al­so elect the Con­fer­ence’s new Ex­ec­u­tive Com­mit­tee for 2024–2025.

SAN­TI­A­GO, Chile, Sept 25, CMC

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