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.

To create the “Protocol Act for the Determination of the Cause and Manner of Deaths Related to Natural Disasters or Catastrophic Events”, for the purpose of adopting a protocol for determining the cause and manner of death in cases where environmental factors related to a natural disaster or a catastrophic event contribute to the death of a person; to provide for mechanisms for collecting information on deaths related to natural disasters or catastrophic events; for the creation of a Committee Interagency for Official Disclosure of Information on Statistical Data on Deaths Related to Natural Disasters or Catastrophic Events; and for other related purposes.

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The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics has a new president of its Board of Directors

The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute (Institute) has a new president of its Board of Directors. The Board elected Dr. Javier Hernández Acosta as president, after the expiry of the term as board member of the past president, Nicolás Muñoz Muñoz. Dr. Hernández is a professor and director of the School of Arts, Design and Creative Industries at the Sacred Heart University. Similarly, Dr. Hernández is the Founder of Cultural Investment and the Center for Creative Economy, Inc., non-profit organizations that support the development of cultural and creative industries in Puerto Rico. Dr. Hernández has been a member of the Board of Directors since October 2020 and prior to that role he collaborated as a researcher on several projects of the Institute such as the World Values Survey (2018), the Innovation Survey (2015) And the Science and Technology Survey: Research and Development (2015).

Members of the Board of Directors do not earn compensation for their services. The Board is composed, in addition to Dr. Javier Hernández Acosta, Mrs. Carola Ballester Descartes, vice-president, Dr. José A. Jorge Pagán, secretary, Mr. Vicente Feliciano Pérez, Dr. Francisco E. Martínez Aponte and Mr. Manuel Laboy. This Board of Directors, as established in Act 209 of August 28, 2003, is the governing body that establishes the administrative policy of the Institute, which is led by Dr. Orville M. Disdier, Executive Director. “The Institute's relevance increases every day with the need for greater transparency and accessibility to information sources to support decision-making. It is up to us to guarantee its autonomy and fiscal sustainability so that it can continue to expand its impact. It is a great responsibility to support this management from the Board of Directors,” said Dr. Hernández, president of the Board of Directors.

The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute is a governmental entity with fiscal and administrative autonomy with the mission of coordinating the statistical production service of government entities. To learn more about the Institute of Statistics, you can access the website: www.estadisticas.pr.gov. On social media through Facebook (@estadisticas .pr), Instagram (@estadisticas .pr), Twitter (@EstadisticasPR) and LinkedIn (Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico) accounts.

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Date: October 5, 2021

To designate March 21 of each year as the “National Day for the Eradication of Racism and Affirmation of Afro-Descendancy”, as part of efforts to eliminate any manifestation of racial and/or ethnic discrimination from our society; to designate the week during the month of March in which the Day for the Abolition of Slavery is commemorated as the Week for the Eradication of Racism and Affirmation of Afro-Descent; to repeal Law 138-1996; and for other related purposes.

The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute has just released the Puerto Rico Creative Industries Report 2019.

This is the fifth publication on the subject, and is being published in the International Year of the Creative Economy, as declared by UNESCO.

Learn more at:

Creative Industries 2021-2022

You can also access the following infographic:

https://infogram.com/industrias-creativas-2019-1h7g6k0mmj7x02o?live

Access the data sets at:

https://datos.estadisticas.pr/dataset/industrias-creativas-en-puerto-rico

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