Eastern Caribbean Center

The Eastern Caribbean Center (ECC) serves as a social sciences and multi-disciplinary research group with survey research and evaluation capabilities, and which administers a number of contracts including the decennial US Census, VI Community Survey (a local version of the American Community Survey- ACS), and several other sponsored projects for Economic Development (Tourism) and a project to establish U.S. Mailing Addresses for the USVI (HUD Street Addressing Initiative) and evaluations for the Virgin Island Department of Education State Office of Special Education. ECC serves as NIH Hub for the AIM AHEAD Consortium, for addressing URM representation and Health Equity issues using AI/ML via partnership with Morehouse SOM. ECC contributes to the research capabilities of UVI through targeted skill training in research methods and data procedures (Research Pipeline Series). ECC has five professional staff with statistical, sampling, project administration and research skills.

Who we are at ECC

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 (VI Community Survey).
• 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.

Virgin Islands Community Survey Flyer (VICS)

Take a look at our Research Training Series

• Research Question to Methodology
• Introduction to Qualitative Methodologies
• Interview Protocol Development

Link to Census Data HERE

Link to Data Request Form

Link to Download Reports

 

 

 

 

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Crash Course- hosted by ECC

 

 

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.

For more information about ECC, contact us:

Eastern Caribbean Center

Marissa Johnson Rogers, Ph.D. Director

University of the Virgin Islands
#2 John Brewers Bay
St. Thomas, USVI, 00802

Telephone: (340) 693-1020
Fax: (340) 693-1025

email:  ecc@uvi.edu