Administrative records
Manual on the integration of administrative data on children and adolescents
Bienio:
2024-2025
Coordinator
Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE) of Chile
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) of Uruguay
Technical Secretariat
UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
Statistics Division of ECLAC
Members
National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) of Argentina
Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC) of Costa Rica
Oficina Nacional de Estadística e Información (ONEI) of Cuba
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) of Honduras
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) of Mexico
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo (INEC) of Panama
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) of Paraguay
National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) of Perú
Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE) of Dominican Republic
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) of Venezuela
Objectives
General objective
Improve the quality of administrative data and its use for following up on the 2030 Agenda and designing public policies to safeguard the rights of children and adolescents in the region.
Specific objectives
- Prepare a manual with guidelines on the production and use of integrated administrative data on children for statistical purposes, coordinating best practices in statistics, with the objective of supporting countries in developing coherent and well-informed strategies that will enable them to make full use of administrative data sources across sectors to develop insights on children.
- Establish a conceptual framework for a mature statistics system that is based on integrated administrative data on children.
- Develop a set of technical case studies of the region, including technical support.
- Develop strategies and technical guidance for the four areas identified as problematic (scope, governance, data issues, and information technology and other issues).