Statistics in the Eastern Caribbean

Statistics are crucial for planning, governing, and developing societies, people, institutions and businesses and thus are indispensable to a progressive democracy. Statistics provide the information needed for evidenced-influenced policy and programmes; for citizens to form opinions and hold governments accountable for their policies; for businesses to make sound expansion and development decisions; and for researchers to analyse all aspects of society. Every decision or prediction we make is based on the data we have available and how we analyse them. Statistics in the OECS Region are therefore critical for predicting trends, and patterns and gaining insight into the social and environmental conditions.

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States's pressreleases

OECS, CDB and World Bank Partner to Fight Poverty

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States's pressreleases

Re-inventing Data and Statistics in the OECS

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States's pressreleases

OECS Celebrates Caribbean Statistics Day

OECS Member States are improving the comparability of population data

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States's pressreleases

OECS Centre of Excellence in Information Management

Objectives

In the context of the Eastern Caribbean Economic Union, the availability of and access to high-quality country-comparable and actionable official statistics are imperative to inform, monitor and evaluate progress toward the attainment of full integration; and for realising equitable growth and development agenda. The Revised Treaty of Basseterre provides for the statistical development mandate in the Principal Article 4.2(s) In achieving the purposes of the Organisation the Member States shall implement decisions of the Organisation under this Treaty and otherwise endeavour to coordinate, harmonise and undertake joint actions and pursue joint policies particularly in the fields of –statistics;

The Statistical Services Unit leads five broad strategic priorities for statistical development as formulated in the OECS Regional Strategy for the Development of Statistics (RSDS) 2016 to 2030 based on an assessment of the national statistical systems. The OECS RSDS was launched in 2017 under the theme Revolutionising of Statistics, Developing our Societies. The strategic objectives and priorities that determine the statistical development initiatives and interventions are:

Design and formalise the OECS Regional Statistical System (RSS)
Consolidate and fortify national statistical systems;
Join and respond to the data revolution;
Extract insights and tell the stories;
Trumpet and value official statistics.

Projects

Over the years, the OECS Commission has been supporting and/or leading several programmes designed to respond to the challenges of and opportunities for statistics in the Eastern Caribbean. The Commission has implemented several statistical development projects and the ones from 2016 include: