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14 July 2025, Geneva, Switzerland - From 11 to 13 June 2025, UNITAR supported a workshop, "Harnessing Administrative Data Sources for Official Statistics Production: Migration and Environment/Climate Change statistics cases" in Grenada, implemented by Grenada's Central Statistical Office (CSO). The workshop supports Grenada's overarching objective of integrating administrative data into its national statistical framework, providing a space to formalize engagement between administrative data holders and the CSO for enhanced data quality.
Key administrative data contributors from relevant ministries, departments and agencies participated in the three-day workshop facilitated by the technical team, Ms. Elena Proden (UNITAR), Ms. Martina De Saverio (UN Statistics Division), Mr. Emil Ivanov (UN Statistics Division), and Mr. Abdullahi Abdulkadri (ECLAC). Guided by the facilitators and representatives from CSO Grenada, participants mapped administrative data sources relevant to migration and environmental statistics and were introduced to the quality assessment tool, enabling them to identify indicators of data gaps or quality issues. Two countries - the Maldives and the Dominican Republic - also shared their country experience using administrative data.
In leveraging administrative data for official statistics, the workshop aimed to empower administrative data holders to engage with the CSO and support efforts to enhance efficiency and relevance in statistics production. Concluding the workshop, working groups were created and a roadmap was outlined for the next steps in implementing data pilots for both migration and environment and climate change statistics. Testing and implementation are currently ongoing, with recommendations to be presented in October 2025.
This project is part of the World Bank-funded Data for Decision-Making project, with the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States as the lead implementer, in partnership with UNITAR, and supported by the UN Statistics Division, and ECLAC Sub-regional Office for the Caribbean.
