Statistics on Childhood and Adolescence

Bienio:

2014-2015

Coordinator

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo (INEC) of Panama

Technical Secretariat

UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean

Members

Statistical Institute of Belize

Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)

Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE) of Chile

Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE) of Colombia

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC) of Costa Rica

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

Objectives

General

To promote the generation, systematization and integration of statistics and indicators on childhood and adolescence with a view to the evaluation and implementation of policies and programmes aimed at fulfilling commitments on the rights of the child undertaken by all the countries of their region.

Specifics

To boost regional coordination in the production of statistics and indicators on childhood and adolescence in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean
To achieve greater comparability of statistics in the region
To improve the reliability of administrative records
To achieve coordination both cross-sectorally and with international organizations in order to help develop indicators that promote and protect children's rights
To generate data that can be used to design and evaluate public policies
To check for information gaps and discrepancies in member countries' statistics on childhood and adolescence
To initiate a process to harmonize member countries' statistics on childhood and adolescence