The Anguilla Statistics Department (ASD) over the past years has used the week in October in which October 15th – Caribbean Statistics Day, to commemorate Anguilla Statistics Day. The 10th Anguilla Statistics Week would have taken place in 2017, but we all can remember what we were doing in October 2017.
Anguilla Statistics Week is an opportunity for the ASD to raise the awareness, importance and use of statistics in all areas of our life. In the past the ASD has sought to raise awareness through holding a number of activities focussed on specific target groups; primary and secondary school age students as well as the population at large.
The ASD is currently still displaced after hurricane Irma and did not have the resources to, in our usual manner, celebrate Statistics Week 2018. Nonetheless the Department has taken the opportunity to continue its statistical awareness campaign by this year focussing on the primary school aged students.
We have presented to the Primary Schools student planners for each student. Student planners assist students in improving their organisational and communication skills; two qualities that statisticians value highly.
As the ASD continues to work towards raising the profile of statistics and encouraging persons to demand and use quality statistics in their programme, policy development and project design, we seek your support in doing so. When called upon to comply with the provision of data to the ASD, we trust that you would do so willingly knowing that Anguilla requires, ‘Sound Statistics for Sustainable Development’
The ASD looks forward to celebrating Statistics Week 2019 D. V..
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