Roll out of Computer Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI) continues in the OECS

OECS Media Release

Three OECS Member States have begun the transition to Computer Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI), a data collection method expected to improve efficiency and access to statistical information.

The OECS Commission, under the Enhanced Country Poverty Assessment (CPA) Project, funded by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), is supporting Member States with the transition from paper-based  to the Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI) method for data collection. 

The Enhanced CPA project is dedicated to distributing one hundred tablets among OECS Members States, to be used for household surveys such as the Labour Force survey and Multi-Indicator Cluster surveys.  Support for the initiative includes the purchase of tablets, laptops and desktops computers.

Dr. Gale Archibald, Head of the Statistical Services Unit, Economic Affairs and Regional Integration Division at the OECS Commission, said the use of the tablets will modernise the process of data collection.

"CAPI helps to reduce the time between data collection and data dissemination. It offers the ability to validate the data in real time and to make corrections throughout the process. The sooner data are available to the public, the sooner they can put them to a variety of uses," Dr. Archibald said.

The National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of Antigua and Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands (BVIs), Dominica, Montserrat and St. Kitts and Nevis are expected to transition to CAPI during the latter part of this year.

Grenada, Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines have already begun use of the tablets in the field. The transition was delayed in Dominica and the BVIs due to the devastation of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

The NSOs of the OECS region received training in Survey Solutions – the World Bank-created tool for designing electronic questionnaires for CAPI. The Survey Solutions training was facilitated and sponsored by the World Bank.

Abiola Sandiford

Statistical Services Unit, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

OECS Communications Unit

Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

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The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is an International Organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration, protection of human and legal rights, and the encouragement of good governance among independent and non-independent countries in the Eastern Caribbean. The OECS came into being on June 18th 1981, when seven Eastern Caribbean countries signed a treaty agreeing to cooperate with each other while promoting unity and solidarity among its Members. The Treaty became known as the Treaty of Basseterre, so named in honour of the capital city of St. Kitts and Nevis where it was signed. The OECS today, currently has eleven members, spread across the Eastern Caribbean comprising Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Martinique and Guadeloupe. 

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