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.
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