REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
SAINT LUCIA
OECS DATA FOR DECISION MAKING PROJECT
IDA-71120
ASSIGNMENT TITLE: Consultancy Services to Support Data Processing and
Analysis of the Saint Lucia 2022/2023 Population and Housing Census
Reference No.: SLU-DATA-CS-ICS-DAC-01-22
The OECS Data for Decision Making (DDM) Project is a regional project that seeks to
improve the capacity of participating Eastern Caribbean countries to produce and
publicly disseminate statistical data for country and regional level analytics. The project
seeks to achieve its objective by strengthening both national and regional level capacities
and fostering regional coordination. At the national level, Component 1 and Component
2 of the project will strengthen national statistical systems through (i) statistical
modernization and capacity building, and (ii) data production, analysis, and
dissemination, with a focus on the population and housing census, living conditions
surveys, labor market surveys, and agricultural census.
The Population and Housing Census (PHC) represents the most comprehensive
investigation of Saint Lucia’s demographics and forms the basis for performing more
focused research on a vast and variety of economic, social and environmental subject
matters. The PHC produces an official count of the population, as well as statistics on the
demographic and socio-economic conditions of everyone living in Saint Lucia. The
information provided assists in developing and informing policies, geared towards
designing and implementing programs and projects in furtherance of the development
of the nation. To date, sixteen (16) rounds of Censuses have been undertaken in Saint
Lucia. The Government of Saint Lucia through the Central Statistical Office (CSO) started
the 17th round of the Saint Lucia PHC on 22 May 2022. The Census has been implemented
throughout the ten (10) districts of Saint Lucia via Tablet-based face-to-face enumeration
process. It is expected that enumeration of the 2023 round of the PHC will be completed
by November 2023. In that context, the CSO is seeking the services and expertise of an
Individual Consultant as Data Processing and Analysis Expert to lead the data processing and
analysis of the 2022/2023 PHC.
The Data Processing Expert will undertake the following:
1. Review and advise the CSO on the processing plan, data processing infrastructure,
data transmission, data security, and data archiving, etc.;
2. Review and advise on guidelines of edit rules/specifications for detection and
correction of range and consistency errors;
3. Develop an editing-in-batch for error detection and correction using CSPRO;
4. Prepare an operational monitoring system for data processing and data analysis
monitoring;
5. Full preparation of an automated tabulation in batch to all thematic tables and
other related tables;
6. Develop a well-organized approach for data distributed computing;
7. Produce and submit a clean 2022/2023 Population and Housing Dataset in plain
text format inclusive of metadata;
8. Produce tabulations that are consistent with the 2010 Preliminary Census Report
and CARICOM recommended tabulations;
9. Work closely with the CSO Director and key technical staff in the development
and approval of the tabulation plan, analysis plan and strategic document for an
optimal use of the 2022/2023 Census data;
10. Work closely with collaborating development partners that may provide
supplementary support;
11. Produce the anonymized data file and public use file and ensure that the raw data
file is kept confidential and secured;
12. Set up automated monitoring, quality checks and reporting from raw data;
Work with CSO staff in electronic documentation using microdata management
toolkit. and Data documentation.
The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be found at the following
https://stats.gov.lc/about-us/tor-data-processing-analysis-expert/
The Department of Economic Development now invites eligible individual consultants
(“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested Individual
Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required
qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services; (Curriculum Vitae with
supporting certified copies of qualifications, description of similar assignments, etc).
Interested Consultants should have the following requisite minimum qualifications and
professional experiences listed below for undertaking the assignment.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS FOR SELECTION OF AN
INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT ARE:
Mandatory
1. At least a bachelor degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, or any other
relevant discipline from a recognized University;
2. At least five (5) years’ experience processing household survey data captured using
tablets for computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI) and Survey Solutions
software;
3. At least ten (10) years demonstrated professional experience conducting quality
assurance of household-based surveys, and population censuses, data processing,
systems design and data archiving;
4. At least five (5) years of experience working with the following statistical and
demographic analysis software: CSPRO and SPSS. Knowledge of Python or R
would be an asset;
5. Demonstrated ability to communicate and present fluently in English in both
written and oral.
The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraph 3.16 of the World Bank’s
Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers (Procurement Regulations) fourth edition, November
2020, setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.
A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Individual Consultants (IC) method
set out in the World Bank Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers (Procurement
Regulations) fourth edition, November 2020
Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 8:00 a.m. -
4:00 p.m. (0800 to 1600 hours).
Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in
person, or by mail, or by e-mail) by Friday 27th November, 2023.
The Chairperson
Public Procurement Committee (Department Public Procurement Board)
Department of Economic Development
First Floor, Finance Administrative Centre
Trou Garnier, Pointe Seraphine
Castries
E-mail: bfrancis@gosl.gov.lc