El Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) de la manufactura en Puerto Rico, principal indicador adelantado del desempeño del sector manufacturero, registró un valor de 46.2 en diciembre de 2025, lo que indica una contracción del sector en relación con el mes anterior. Un valor inferior a 50 señala una disminución de la actividad manufacturera respecto al período previo.
El PMI es el principal indicador del desempeño de la manufactura en Puerto Rico y se publica con frecuencia mensual. El Instituto de Estadísticas de Puerto Rico produce y divulga este indicador como parte de su compromiso institucional de ofrecer información estadística objetiva, confiable e independiente, en apoyo al análisis económico y la toma de decisiones informadas.
Durante diciembre, aunque el índice general se mantuvo por debajo del umbral de 50, algunos de sus componentes registraron resultados distintos. En particular, los componentes de empleo y entregas de suplidores se ubicaron en o por encima de ese nivel, lo que refleja una evolución distinta de estos componentes respecto al índice general. Asimismo, los inventarios propios aumentaron en comparación con el mes anterior.
Como parte de una encuesta suplementaria a establecimientos manufactureros, los principales retos identificados durante el mes se concentraron en tres áreas. En el ámbito operacional, se destacaron los costos, las limitaciones en la disponibilidad de materias primas, las entregas de suplidores, la logística de la cadena de suministro y las ventas. En el área de recursos humanos, el principal reto reportado fue el ausentismo laboral. Asimismo, se señalaron problemas relacionados con la confiabilidad del suministro de energía eléctrica.
Desde el inicio de la encuesta, el PMI de la manufactura en Puerto Rico se ha ubicado en o por encima del umbral de expansión en 116 de los 187 meses observados, lo que permite contextualizar el resultado de diciembre dentro de su trayectoria histórica.
Acceda aquí al informe completo y el conjunto de datos del PMI:
Compendio Estadístico sobre la Educación Superior de Puerto Rico 2019-2020
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Date: May 3, 2021
To order the Commissions on Social Welfare and Old Age Affairs; and on Education, Tourism and Culture to conduct an exhaustive investigation into compliance with Laws 136-1996, 80-2002, 181-2014, 78-2018, 173-2018, 174-2018, 174-2018 and 266-2018, by all public agencies of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. They should also investigate whether the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute, in accordance with its enabling law, Act 209-2003, collects and analyzes data related to the number of people in Puerto Rico who are trained in sign languages.
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They will present the Virtual Forum on Statistics and Technology
The activity is free of cost
Fulfilling its mission to lead in the use of technology as a work tool and service in the development of better statistics, the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics will hold the Virtual Forum on Statistics and Technology on Friday, May 7, 2021 from 8:30 in the morning to 12:30 in the afternoon. The activity is free of charge, but it requires that participants register, from now on, through the following link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8947053084746770957
The event will include two educational sessions. The first session will present the following topics: Statistics and technology to understand population characteristics; Technology: An essential tool for economic statistics, as well as the interconnectivity of systems to improve government statistics. In the second intervention, the topics will be the following: Tools for visualizing statistics and indicators and The Future Now: “Big Data”.
As reported, the forum is aimed at statisticians, economists, professionals in the field of technology, students of business administration, public health, demographers, in short, anyone with an interest in statistical and technological issues. In the same way, we urge students from public and private schools at the higher level (High School) to register and benefit from this extraordinary educational opportunity. Participants will receive a certificate through their emails.
“This forum allows us to continue educating about how technology is an ally and an essential tool for the development of better quality statistics and effective data visualizations. Spaces like this give us the opportunity to interact with different representatives of academic and governmental sectors, private companies, non-profit organizations, as well as with the research community on how, through technology, we can provide the statistical data that is so essential in decision-making to promote economic and social development in Puerto Rico,” explained Dr. Orville M. Disdier, executive director of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics.
The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute is an autonomous governmental entity tasked with coordinating the government's statistical production service to ensure that the data collection and statistics systems, on which public policies are based, are complete, reliable, and accessible quickly and universally.
For more information you can visit the website: https://estadisticas.pr.gov/. In addition, you can follow the Institute on social networks, through Facebook (@estadisticas .pr), Twitter (@EstadisticasPR) and LinkedIn (Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico) accounts.
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Idia M. Martinez, R-28
787-603-3200
Date: April 21, 2021
To establish the “Puerto Rico Minimum Wage Act”, for the purpose of allowing the state minimum wage in Puerto Rico to prevail over the federal minimum wage the higher it is; create the Minimum Wage Evaluation Board attached to the Department of Labor and Human Resources, provide for its powers and composition; provide protection for workers in local companies not covered by the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; empower the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources to implement this Act; amend Article 1; repeal the Articles 2 and 3; amend the current Article 4 and re-list it as a new Article 2; repeal paragraph (d) of Article 5; re-list the current Articles 5, 6 and 7 as the new Articles 3, 4 and 5; amend the current Article 8 and re-list it as the new Article 6; re-list the current Articles 9, 10, 11 and 12 as the new Articles 7, 8, 9 and 10; amend the current Article 13 and re-list it as the new Article 11; and re-list the current Articles 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 like the new Articles 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 of Law 180-1998, according to amended, for the purpose of removing any minimum wage provision from that law; and for other related purposes.
PRESS RELEASE
A new programming carried out by the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics will allow a better visualization of the Occupied Positions (PO) Report in the Government and the ability to compare current information with previous months, among other advantages. For the redesign of this report, free of charge and open source software was used R, so now it is done completely through this program, eliminating manual processes that were previously carried out.
“This new program is an advanced one because it optimizes the efficiency and effectiveness of statistical processes on this topic, improves our ability to monitor government positions with updated information, and allows comparisons to be made with previous years.”, said Dr. Orville M. Disdier, executive director of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics.
The new design, as indicated by Ana Gabriela Jara Castro, manager of statistical projects at the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, includes a monthly report tabulated by agency and type of position, in addition to the time series, with the following information:
Jara Castro explained that, within this new format, a table (Table 4) was included that represents entities that have not reported their positions to the Office of the Comptroller for more than six months.
“The inclusion of this new table will allow the accountability process, for positions in government entities, to be a more transparent one, and more accessible to the population. The main objective of this report is to summarize the information of all the agencies represented in the Office of the Comptroller on its website,” said Ana G. Jara Castro, who was primarily responsible for the redesign of the report.
According to the website of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, the statistics presented in the Report on Statistics of Occupied Government Positions, come from the Register of Occupied Positions and Related Information, created under Act No. 103-2006, known as the Puerto Rico Government Tax Reform Act of 2006. This law states that every governmental entity has a duty to certify this information to the Comptroller's Office on a monthly basis. In those cases where the entity has not fulfilled its duty to certify its figures in a timely manner, the Statistics Institute performs a simple statistical attribution of the missing data to complete the statistics. All figures are under constant review and may change in future reports. The January 2021 edition is the most recent edition of this report and reflects that the number of total POs in government has fallen from 275,448 in January 2008 to 150,502 in January 2021. In the same way, “De Carrera” POs have fallen from 218,540 in January 2008 to 109,975 in January 2021. The report can be accessed through the following link: Statistics of Occupied Positions in the Government.
The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute is an autonomous governmental entity tasked with coordinating the government's statistical production service to ensure that the data collection and statistics systems, on which public policies are based, are complete, reliable, and accessible quickly and universally.
For more information you can visit the website: https://estadisticas.pr.gov/. In addition, you can follow the Institute on social networks, through Facebook (@estadisticas .pr), Twitter (@EstadisticasPR) and LinkedIn (Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico) accounts.
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Contact:
Idia M. Martinez, R-28
787-603-3200
Date: March 23, 2021
To amend articles 2, 3, 4 and 5, add new articles 5-A and 5-B, and amend articles 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 16 and 20 of Law 209-2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Act”, in order to inventory and consolidate in its Organic Law, those other duties and functions, which were conferred on it by various additional laws; to make technical corrections, in consideration of the current rule of law; repeal Law 190-2007 and Law 33-2018; and for other related purposes.
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