Castries St. Lucia Wednesday, January 21, 2010.The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Secretariat is preparing to launch a labour force survey of OECS Member States.
To this end, the Secretariat is finalizing a regional workshop on the practical application of labour force sampling methodologies and techniques. The workshop is scheduled for Grenada from January 25th – 29th, 2010.
This training in the conduct of labour force surveys is being undertaken with financial support from the World Bank under its Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building grant facility.
This workshop will be one of several planned activities organized by the OECS Secretariat, which will culminate in the establishment of an OECS Labour Market Information System. Other components of that system will include standardisation of labour administrative records and the integration of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in the operations of OECS Departments of Labour.
Economic Affairs Officer at the OECS Secretariat Sean Curtis Mathurin says the establishment of an OECS Labour Market Information System is regarded as being fundamental to the smooth operation and monitoring of progress in the implementation of the OECS Economic Union, which is expected to come into full effect by June 2010: “This workshop will seek to give effect to the establishment of functioning support and functional modalities for the establishment of the OECS Economic Union as it pertains specifically to the free movement of labour.”
A sampling specialist of UN-ECLAC will lead the training exercise. The specialist will work with statisticians from participating OECS Member States, using a practical “learning by doing” approach. Further support will come from a sampling expert from the Jamaica Statistical Institute. The training will be geared towards building the technical capacity of OECS Statistical Offices in sample design, structuring of sample frames and sampling and estimation procedures, drawing on country-specific data.
Mathurin says Grenada has been identified as one of the pilot member countries for the labour force survey.
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