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Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
The goal of having a version of the document produced by UNECE (2016) that was adapted to the Latin American reality was put forward by the members of the Working Group on Institution-building of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), at the regional workshop on legal frameworks for the production of official statistics held in Bogotá on 3–5 July 2018. This task was undertaken jointly by experts from National Statistical Offices, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and ECLAC, which also acted as technical secretariat for the process. The text was revised and modified through online exchanges among experts during the first half of 2019 and at a face-to-face meeting held in San Salvador on 29–30 August 2019. The following experts contributed to the preparation of this document: Carlos Criales (National Institute of Statistics of the Plurinational State of Bolivia); Mercy García, Helen Navarro and Julieth Solano (National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) of Colombia); Lidia González (National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC) of Costa Rica); Katherine Alzamora, Ivonne Benitez and Alexandra Suasnavas (National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC) of Ecuador); Jorge Ventura (National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) of Mexico); Leopoldo López and José Quiñonez (Department of Statistics, Surveys and Censuses (DGEEC) of Paraguay); Ximena Clark, José Antonio Mejía and Danielle Zaror (Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)); Gabriel Gámez (United Nations Statistics Division) and Xavier Mancero and Rocío Miranda (Statistics Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)). The authors wish to express particular thanks for the financial support from IDB which contributed to the success of this joint effort.
