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Norma Abdulah 1930 - 2003
Former Deputy Director
Senior Research Fellow
Norma Abdulah was born in Jamaica on October 28, 1930 and educated at Oxford University (St. Hugh's College) between 1950 and 1953 where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Her special subject was Statistics. Her postgraduate work was done at Nuffield College, Oxford from 1953 to 1954 where she gained a Certificate in Statistics.
Ms. Abdulah returned to Jamaica where she served as a Research Fellow, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica for a short period in 1954. In Trinidad, she was employed as a Statistician with the Central Statistical Office during the period 1954 - 1956 and Assistant Census Officer, Trinidad and Tobago, 1957 -1960. In 1970 she was appointed to the post of Research Fellow, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, then it was agreed that the post of Deputy Associate Director, ISER, St.. Augustine, be conferred on her in 1982.
Norma Abdulah attended several conferences and meetings, such as the UNESCO Conference on Education, Bogota, Colombia, Seminar on "Population Growth Targets" held in Trinidad, April, 1973 by the Committee for the Co-ordination of National Research in Demography: (CICRED), Meetings of the International Statistical Institute and the International Association of Survey Statisticians; Vienna, Austria, August, 1973 and the Meeting of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population; Liege, Belgium; August - September, 1973.
Mrs. Abdulah was the author of several monographs published by the ISER, the International Statistical Institute and Macro International. She contributed articles to edited texts and was also the author of several technical reports. One of her major contributions was the book entitled: Designing Social Surveys for the Caribbean
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