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Eastern Caribbean Center

Social Research Institute

  • Conducts scientific survey sampling.
  • Compiles, analyzes and disseminates demographic and socioeconomic data.
  • Conducts an annual population and housing survey of Virgin Islands households.
  • Generates statistics for planning, decision making, grant writing and programmatic reporting.
  • Conducts the Virgin Islands decennial census of population and housing.
  • Serves as the Virgin Islands Census Data Center.

Conservation data Center

  • Compiles, analyzes and disseminates natural resource and socioeconomic data.
  • Provides training in GIS (Geographic Information System).
  • Identifies and evaluates threats to natural areas in the Virgin Islands, and provides the tools for decision makers to address these threats.
  • Maintains geographic databases on digital photographic imagery, natural marine communities and terrestrial vegetation types.
  • Generates maps based on Virgin Islands census data at the district, sub-district, tract, block group and block level.

 



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