Cayman Chamber of Commerce welcomes advise on next census
Financial Secretary Kenneth Jefferson has recently announced that members of the business community will be able to express their opinions in the questions to be included in the national census that is planned to be conducted in 2010.
The Chamber of Commerce was asked to nominate a representative that would become the head of a Census Advisory Committee. The Financial Secretary said that including one of the members in the advisory committee would ensure that the needs of the business community were addressed in the census questionnaire that is related to data required for future decision-making. According to Jefferson, the Census Advisory Committee will convene in May 2008.
The last census was held in 1999, and it consisted of 71 questions. The Chamber of Commerce was not represented on the advisory committee, however, it played an important role in publicizing the survey.
It was approved by the Cabinet in February that the planning, preparing and implementing the next population and household census will be be held in October 2010.
“Early approval of the census by Cabinet is important in view of the required two to three years of preparation for the census,” Jefferson said.
The census will be varried out by the Economic and Statistics Office (ESO), and it aims at obtaining a total count of residents in Cayman as well as to determine their demographic, social and economic characteristics.