General

Help to strengthen, improve and coordinate among the countries of the region, the household survey methodologies used to analyse the population’s well-being, with a view to obtaining better quality data for public policy decision-making.

Specifics

1. Become a technical reference point for the region with regard to the thematic areas associated with household surveys, in order to address the challenges and specificities of different social phenomena that it seeks to measure through income and expenditure surveys, time-use measurements, public safety and gender statistics, among other instruments.
2. Contribute to the sharing of experiences, promoting good methodological practices when designing the statistical production processes of household surveys, including sampling frames, sample designs (including master samples and selecting balanced samples), the calculation and calibration of expansion factors and indicators of the quality of survey processes.
3. Identify and promote regional and subregional cooperation activities, through the member countries of the Working Group and other related working groups of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), by strengthening national capacities to implement high-quality household surveys.