Demographic and Social Statistics

• Barbados Statistical Services
• CARICOM
• UNSD
• Introduction of participants and administrative matters

This session will provide some background information on the process for the development of SDGs, and on disability-related SDG indicators for monitoring progress towards inclusion of persons with disabilities in development programmes. It will also highlight some opportunities and challenges for countries to generate the required data for the SDG framework:

• Presentation by UNSD
• Presentation by CARICOM
• Discussion
• Chair: Carol Coy ‐ Jamaica

The session will introduce on-going work at international level related to:

• Washington Group on Disability Statistics
• UNSD
• Discussion
• Chair: Cornell Williams ‐ St. Kitts and Nevis

A presentation on disability questions used to measure disability during censuses of the 2010 round with emphasis on the Caribbean region:

• Presentation by UNSD
• Discussion
• Chair: Iwan Sno ‐ Suriname

Presentations by countries on the questions used to measure disability, reasons for the choice of questions, testing of the questions, experience in how the questions worked in the field, use of proxy respondents, translation of questions, use of scaled response categories, and results obtained. In the case of sample survey, it should also cover topics on which data are available, sample size, geographical level at which results are available, etc.:

• Country presentations: Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica, Bahamas
• Discussion
• Chair: Iwan Sno ‐ St. Vincent and the Grenadines

• Country presentations: Montserrat, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Dominica, Anguilla, Bermuda, Suriname, Turks and Caicos
• Discussion
• Chair: Statchel Edwards ‐ Antigua and Barbuda

(1) Use of statistics in countries: (i) Who are the main users of disability-related statistics?, (ii) How are statistics on disability currently utilized in your country?, (iii) What mechanisms exist for promoting their utilization for policy purposes?; (2) Production of statistics in countries: (i) Identify ways to strengthen national capacity to produce and utilize data on disability for monitoring progress towards inclusion of persons with disabilities in development programmes, (ii) How can we better coordinate production of statistics on disability by relevant stakeholders in the NSS?, (iii) What do you do propose as the next steps in developing this area of statistics (short and medium term)?

• Facilitators UNSD and CARICOM
• Group Discussion

• Country presentations:
• Presentation of group discussion summaries
• Discussion

• Discussion

• CARICOM
• UNSD