The Barbados Statistical Service (BSS) has commenced another round of its Continuous Labour Force Sample Survey (CLFSS) capturing data in various districts across the island for the month of September.
As a result, field officers from the department will be visiting households and persons are encouraged to actively participate in this exercise.
In St. Michael, the team will survey the following: Grazettes, Quarry Road, Skeete’s Road, Hothersal, Dayrells Road, Station Hill, Belle View Gap, Bridge Road, Rockley Village, Brownes Gap, Navy Garden Road, Observatory Road, Clapham Road, Harper Tenantry Road, Barkers Road, Neils Tenantry Road, Rouen Road and Tichbourne Road.
In Christ Church, BSS field officers will visit: Cane Vale, Green Hill Drive, Silver Hill, Edey Village, Lower Greys Road, Frere Pilgrim and Charnocks.
The communities in St. George to be surveyed are: St. Judes, Hope Road, Free Hill Road, Workmans, Jericho and Elcock Road.
The field officers will target the following districts in St. Philip: Harlington Road, St. Martins, Harmony Lodge, Foul Bay, Mangrove, Diamond Valley, Union Road and Rock Hall.
BSS officials will also visit: Westmoreland, Husbands, Oxnards, West Terrace, Watermans Village, Durants Village, Haynesville, Prior Park, Thorpes, Halls Village, Denny Road and Upper Carlton Road in St. James; Jack-in-the-Box, Walkes Spring, Clifton Hall, Mount Wilton, Bloomsbury and Bryan Road in St. Thomas; Church Street, Speightstown, Farm Road, Niles Road, Haymans Road, The Whim Road, Ashton Hall and Church Street in St. Peter.
The CLFSS is the quarterly collection of current information on various labour force characteristics, as well as income and expenditure data, gathered from a sample of households across Barbados.
The information will then be used to determine employment and unemployment levels in the island, coupled with the distribution of skills/professions in the different sectors of the economy, all of which lead to the provision of statistics for timely and necessary social and economic planning.
The BSS urges household members to cooperate with the field officers who will be wearing the official BSS identification card. The department also expresses appreciation to all those who have previously cooperated in the completion of the surveys and reminds persons that all information is kept in the strictest confidence and handled in a manner to prevent recognition of any individual.