Research and development grows despite economic recession

They publish Retail Sales estimates that correct seasonality

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The beginning of the recession coincides with the beginning of major emigration in the last decade.

Scotiabank, the Industrialists Association and the Statistics Institute begin publication of the Purchasing Managers Index

Date: January 28, 2011

To order the Department of Health, the Department of the Family, the Department of Labor and its Vocational Rehabilitation Administration and the Department of Education, in coordination and under the standards adopted by the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute created under Act No. 209 of August 28, 2003, as amended, to carry out a statistical study on how many people have been diagnosed with the condition of autism in Puerto Rico who receive services from these Departments and for the creation of a permanent registry, to those ends.

Date: January 28, 2011

To amend Article 1.03 of Act No. 149 of July 15, 1999, as amended, known as the “Organic Law of the Puerto Rico Department of Education” for the purpose of ordering the Secretary of Education to provide information to the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics to create an Early Detection System for Deserters and to submit an annual “School Dropout Report” to the Governor and the Legislative Assembly.