Statistics Institute participates in the Reach Higher FAFSA Meeting at the White House

Date: October 22, 2015

To establish the “Puerto Rico Vital Event Registration Act”, for the purpose of establishing the Puerto Rico Vital Event Registration Office (OREV), attached to the Department of Health; establishing its functions and responsibilities; providing for a minimum amount of local records; creating the management position of State Registrar; establishing minimum requirements, the term, functions and powers of the position; implementing a security method to the Vital Events System for public health, national security, and others; establish procedures for handling legal documents provided for in the Act, such as certificates and reports of vital events; impose controls to prepare, maintain and disclose the content of vital records and reports in their custody; repeal Act No. 24 of April 22, 1931, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Demographic Registration Act”; repeal Act No. 4 of December 4, 1947; repeal Act No. 370 of May 13

To recognize the great contribution of statistics to the quality of life of all, the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics joins organizations around the world in celebrating World Statistics Day 2015. The objectives are:

1. Highlight the contributions of statistics in the different areas of knowledge.
2. Build an environment that brings together students, teachers, researchers, public employees, statisticians and other professionals who share a common interest in statistics.
3. To publicize the functions and contributions of the Institute in the community.

Presentations

• Dr. Mario Marazzi-Santiago, Greetings and welcome
• Dr. Anna Sandoval Girón, Qualitative Methods in the Design of Surveys and Evaluations
• Ben Wood, Modern Consumer Panel Research
• Dr. Qing Wu, Statistics at Google
• Steve Ellsworth, Socrates
• Carlos R. Torres-Cintrón, The transformation of Puerto Rico's cancer epidemiological surveillance system
• Dr. Roberto Rivera, Quality Issues with Data

Technology Hall

• Dr. Luis R. Pericchi, Hypothesis Testing and Estimation under a Bayesian Approach
• Dr. Wolfgang Rolke, Regression and Generalized Linear Models
• Stuart Gano, World Statistics Day

Materials

• Prog Photographs of the activity Photographs of the infographic competition Videos

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Statistics Institute holds Expo Statistics 2015 in observance of World Statistics Day

Net emigration reaches its highest point in the last decade

Date: September 16, 2015

To order the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO) to transfer, free of charge, to the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, the ownership of land and structure, located on Roosevelt Avenue, in Hato Rey, Municipality of San Juan, to ensure that the headquarters of the Institute are located in an accessible building with the space necessary to carry out its mission.