The Barbados Statistical Service (BSS) is presently conducting another round of its Continuous Labour Force Sample Survey (CLFSS), to capture data for the first quarter of the year. As a result, Field Officers from the BSS will visit households in several districts across the island.
In St. Michael, they will survey the following districts: New Orleans, Westbury Road, Pickwick Gap, Wharton’s Gap, Marshall Gap, Deacon’s Farm, Deacon’s, Black Rock, Grazettes, St. Stephen’s Hill, Clevedale, Cadogan Road, Tudor Bridge, Palm Road, Roxy Avenue, Waterhall Land, Hill Road, Kew Road, Promenade Road, Dalkeith, Paddock Road, Dayrell’s Road, Gooding Road, Deighton Road, Hall’s Road, Belmont Road, St. Hill Road, Train Line Road, Chase Road, Wildey, Austin Drive, Lodge Crescent, Well Gap, Rock Dundo, St. Stephen’s, Stanmore Crescent, Free Hill, Boarded Hall, Cutting Road, Sinckler Road, Mayers Road, Back Ivy, Rogers Road, Green Hill, Eden Lodge, Skeete’s Road, Hothersal, Station Hill, Belle View, Constitution River, Barkers Road, Neils Tenantry, and Tichbourne.
In Christ Church, officials will visit Plumgrove, Lodge Road, Newton, Rollins Road, Goodland Road, Woodford Square, Gibbons Terrace, Parish Land, Providence, Thornbury Hill, Callenders, Wilcox Hill, Chancery Lane, Holbourne Terrace Ridge, Edey Village, Lower Grey’s, Frere Pilgrim, Rockley, Dayrells Road, Navy Garden, Brownes Gap, Vauxhall, Warners, Observatory Road, Harper Tenantry, Clapham, Charnocks, Spencers, Holbournand Sayes Court.
The communities to be surveyed in St. George are Locust Hall, Applewaites Road, Constant, Walkers, St. Jude’s, Free Hill, Elcock Road, Jericho, Fairview Heights, Foster Hall, Charles Rowe Bridge, Glebe, and Rowans.
In St. Philip, the team will visit: Harlington, Mangrove, St. Martin’s, Foul Bay, Garret Road, College Drive, Country Drive, Chapel, Church Village, Jaggery Avenue, Palm View Drive, Fortesque, Sabal Drive and Cummins Hole, Mount Pleasant, Sandy Hill, Diamond Valley, Union, Blades Hill, Three Houses Park, Golden Grove, and St. Catherine’s.
Field officers will traverse the following districts in St. John: Edgecliff, Malvern, Mount Tabor, Sherbourne, Colleton Gardens, Coach Hill, Sargeant Street, and Clifton Hall.
BSS officials will also be in St. Thomas and will visit Melrose, Edgehill, Grandview, Apple Grove, Redman’s Village, Jack-in-the-Box Gully, Mount Wilton, Walkes Spring, Bloomsbury, Welchman Hall and Welches, while in St. James, the team will be in Prospect, West Terrace Gardens, Appleby, Derrick’s Hill, West Terrace, Oxnards, Husbands, Haynesville, Prior Park, Halls Village, Thorpes, Durants Village, Westmoreland and Upper Carlton.
Officials will visit respondents living in Andrew’s Plantation, Coffee Gully, Ginger Works Road and Airy Hill in St. Joseph; Ashton Hall, Six Men’s, The Whim, Oxford, Mile-and-a-Quarter, Castle Road, Diamond Corner, Maynards, Retreat, Convent Drive, Benn Hill, Church Street, Farm Road and Niles Road in St. Peter; King Street, Belleplaine, Franklyn Douglin Road, Haggatts, Bruce Vale, in St. Andrew; and Luke Hill, Alleyndale, Swampy Town, Trents, Lamberts, Alexandra, Cottage, River Bay, Spring Garden, Chance Hall, Lowlands, and Bishop’s Road, in St. Lucy.
The BSS urges the public to actively participate in the exercise and assures that all information will be kept in the strictest of confidence.
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.
This information is then 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 leads to the provision of statistics for timely and necessary social and economic planning.