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CSO Conducting the Household Budget Survey and Survey of Living Conditions (HBS/SLC) from February 2023

The Honourable Pennelope Beckles, Minister of Planning and Development is announcing to the public that the Central Statistical Office (CSO) will be conducting the Household Budget Survey and Survey of Living Conditions, beginning Sunday 12 February, 2023 to conclude in January of 2024. The Household Budget Survey (HBS) is designed to collect very detailed information regarding the household budget...

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THANK YOU. The CSO extends its gratitude to Households that participated in the MICS

The Central Statistical Office (CSO), continuing its drive to provide the nation with relevant statistics, recently concluded the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), which took place over the period August 1st to December 18th, 2022. The CSO aimed to administer the 2022 Trinidad and Tobago MICS to a representative sample of approximately 9 000 households, and reached...

CSO Completes Survey

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday Newspaper | Tue Jan 10th 2023 THE public has been praised by both the Central Statistical Office (CSO) and Planning and Development Minister Pennelope Beckles for the high participation in the CSO’s recent Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) between August 1 and December 18. With a target of approximately 9,000 households, the actual...

Caribbean Statistics Day, 15th October 2022

MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) CARLA N. BARNETT PhD CBE ON THE OCCASION OF THE FOURTEENTH OBSERVANCE OF CARIBBEAN STATISTICS DAY 15 OCTOBER 2022 It is my pleasure to extend greetings on the fourteenth Caribbean Statistics Day which will be observed on Saturday, 15 October 2022. With the focus on the ongoing 2020 Round of Population and Housing Census...

T&T gets US$721,000 via UN Joint SDG Fund to strengthen data gathering

Trinidad and Tobago will benefit from a US$721,400 grant from the Joint SDG Fund of the United Nations which will be used to develop the country’s data and statistics related to its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Speaking at the launch of the project at the Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain, United Nations Resident Coordinator (a.i) and...

CSO making progress on updating statistics

Trinidad and Tobago Guardian Newspaper | Sun Jan 9th 2022 Progress is being made by the Central Statistical Office (CSO) to bring the dissemination of the Index of Retail Prices (RPI) back on the one-month time lag schedule, the Ministry of Planning and Development has confirmed. The CSO released the Index for the month of October 2021...

Using Statistics to Keep Track of Our Changing Environment

“Data is the lifeblood of decision-making and the raw material for accountability. Without high-quality data providing the right information on the right things at the right time; designing, monitoring and evaluating effective policies becomes almost impossible... Read the latest article in our Statistics in Focus series by the CSO to learn more about using statistics...

The CARICOM Regional Census Coordinating Committee

Did you catch the latest “Statistics in Focus” column from the Central Statistical Office? The 25th article of the current series - The CARICOM Regional Census Coordinating Committee was featured in Thursday's Business Guardian. Catch up on the latest and other articles at: Statistics in Focus.

2011 Census Database now accessible online

The 2011 Population and Housing Census database can now be accessed and queried via the Central Statistical Office’s website www.cso.gov.tt. You can now rapidly produce various types of user defined tables, graphs and maps which are easily downloadable for inclusion in reports, presentations and for personal use. The “2011 Census Data” link falls under the heading...

T&T Population Reaches 1.4 million

The total population of Trinidad and Tobago reached 1,353,895 persons in 2016 according to the Central Statistical Office’s Population, Social and Vital Statistics Division. This total consists of 679,288 males and 674,607 females and represents the CSO’s 2016 mid-year estimates. Based on these official statistics the population of Trinidad and Tobago can now be stated as...

Core Statistics

Goods Exported (Jan-Dec '22)

86.4 $TTBn|December 2022

Goods Imported (Jan-Dec '22)

40.4 $TTBn|December 2022

Unemployment Rate (3rd Qtr)

5.4 %|September 2022

GDP Growth Rate (2nd Qtr)

+1.2|June 2022

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CSO Conducting the Household Budget Survey and Survey of Living Conditions (HBS/SLC) from February 2023

February 10, 2023

The Honourable Pennelope Beckles, Minister of Planning and Development is announcing to the public that the Central Statistical Office (CSO) will be conducting the Household Budget Survey and Survey of Living Conditions, beginning Sunday 12 February, 2023 to conclude in January of 2024. The Household Budget Survey (HBS) …

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