Intended Beneficiaries:
English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean countries and territories

Start/ End Dates:
September 2001 – December 2004

Objectives:
To develop and strengthen national labour market information systems that would generate reliable, timely and internationally-comparable labour statistics for use by government policy-makers, employers and trade unionists.

Outputs:
A series of Working Papers, a Caribbean Labour Market Information Library on CD-ROM, and the Caribbean Occupational Information Exchange Facility, also on CD-ROM.

Impact to date:

• National Classifications of Occupations (NCO) completed for Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago Labour Market Information (LMI) Plans established for The Bahamas, Barbados, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
• Labour Force Survey (LFS) implemented (Saint Kitts and Nevis) and enhanced (Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, the Netherlands Antilles).
• Occupational Wage Surveys (OWS) implemented (Barbados, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago) and enhanced (Saint Lucia and The Bahamas).
• Evaluation undertaken to determine the potential of National Insurance Schemes (NIS) as a source of LMI (The Bahamas, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the Netherlands Antilles).
• Country-specific Labour Market Information Libraries (LMIL) established in Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago.
• The Bahamas has to date completed its second survey on occupational wages since the Project’s intervention.
• The Statistical Unit of the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security of Guyana recently completed its third survey on occupational wages and hours of work.
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines plans to implement an LMI system.

Donor: US Department of Labor (USDOL)