Date: December 13, 2021

To order the Department of the Family, the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute and the Puerto Rico Police Bureau to provide all available statistics on the incidence of child abuse and exploitation in Puerto Rico from March 1, 2020, the month in which the closure and curfew began due to COVID-19, until March 31, 2021; provide the plan of action to address and combat child abuse and exploitation; and for other related purposes.

The Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico issues a favorable opinion on the fiscal operations of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics

“The tests carried out and the evidence in our possession revealed that the operations of the Institute subject to this Report were carried out, in all significant respects, in accordance with applicable law and regulations.”

“The Report comments that since the Institute of Statistics was created in 2003, the Legislature has not allocated the budget for the special fund contrary to Law 209-2003 which establishes an allocation of $2,000,000 as an initial item to finance projects for methodological improvements or statistical products. As of May 28, 2021, the Institute had not received the allocation for the special fund.”

“This situation prevented the Institute from updating Puerto Rico's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) methodology. This measurement of GDP is necessary for the Federal Government to integrate the measurement of Puerto Rico's economy, as required by the Report by the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status of March 11, 2011 under the presidency of Barack Obama.”

Source:

AUDIT REPORT DA-22-06

More information at:

https://www.ocpr.gov.pr/... /auditor-report-of-22... /

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The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute joins 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, which is an annual international campaign that begins on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and continues until December 10, Human Rights Day.

As part of the PARE Committee, the Institute invites them to access the Committee's educational materials on this topic.

Visit: https://parelaviolencia.pr.gov/

Puerto Rico Statistics Institute creates and publishes a new Educational Program in Podcast format

This program is the official Podcast of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics (Institute). This medium is a quick and convenient way to obtain information through a digital audio format. The audios can be listened to at any time, from anywhere, through various platforms on the Internet. Each episode of this podcast helps people have greater and better access to comprehensive, reliable statistics that are quickly and universally accessible.

The Podcast is accessible through the following link: https://anchor.fm/instituto-de-estadsticas-de-puerto-rico

Episode 1 (S1) is aimed at the topic of education and is entitled: “Statistical Compendium of Higher Education in Puerto Rico: Year 2020-2021”.

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October was the month of manufacturing, so the Institute developed a supplement to the Purchasing Manager's Index Report (PMI) for the month of September 2021, published in early November.

This supplement examines the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the PMI and the manufacturing sector in Puerto Rico. The report focuses on economic sub-indices and indicators, and presents the different factors that were affected in manufacturing companies by the health measures taken by the government from April 2020 to August 2021.

To order the Department of the Family, the Department of Education, the Mental Health and Counteraddiction Administration, the Department of Health and the Puerto Rico Police to establish, within a period of no more than 60 days, an emergency plan to address the crisis of child abuse and abuse in Puerto Rico, including a continuing education campaign in the media and on the social networks of the agencies; to order the Statistics Institute of Puerto Rico to enter into collaboration agreements with the Department of the Family and the Puerto Rico Police to publish an Annual Child Abuse Profile, within 180 days; to order the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Bureau to call on technology companies and telecommunications providers to take steps to ensure the safety of children in cyberspace, provide children with access to toll-free helplines, use their platforms to promote campaigns to prevent child abuse and abuse; order the Department of Housing to start educational campaigns and offer workshops on guidance on child abuse and maltreatment for all residents and participants in their programs; and for other purposes.