The Second Symposium on Gender-based Violence Statistics in Puerto Rico:

The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute organized the Second Symposium on Gender Violence Statistics, which took place on May 10, 2024. During the Symposium, a space was created to guide citizens on the availability of statistical data on gender-based violence generated by government agencies. These data are crucial to contribute to the analysis, prevention and eradication of gender-based violence in Puerto Rico.

The Initiative:

This event emerged as an essential continuation of providing relevant statistical information on gender-based violence in Puerto Rico. At this event, professionals from multiple disciplines present information aimed at the different manifestations of gender-based violence. This was done with the purpose of continuing efforts to create orientation spaces to accurately measure the problem of gender-based violence in Puerto Rico and its different manifestations from a health perspective. Information exchanges at events like this are of paramount importance as they promote understanding of this topic and the need for coordinated, multisectoral efforts to address this problem.

Presentations:

• Dr. Orville M. Disdier, Effects of violence on the teaching-learning process
• Lcd. Ileana V. Espada Martinez, Public Policies against Gender-based Violence
• Dr. Diego Zavala, Intimate partner violence and the health approach
• Dr. Rebeca Ward and Brenda Guzman, Data, primary prevention tools and action plans
• Captain Aymée Alvarado Cardona and Myribel Santiago Torres, Domestic Violence Among the Police Negotiate
• Mariluz Bezares Salinas, Towards an Accurate Measurement of Femicide in Puerto Rico
• Manuel Mangual, Information updates about PARE
• Lcd. Madeline Bermudez, Gender Violence from the OPM Perspective and Identifying the needs of working women in Puerto Rico.
• Prosecutor Laura Hernández, The Strategic Role of Statistical Data in Combating Domestic Violence
• Dr. Francisco Pesante Gonzalez, Profile of Child Abuse in Puerto Rico
• Dr. Ronald Hernandez and Leyda I. Soto López, Employment and Gender; An Overview of Puerto Rico

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To recognize the great contribution of statistics to the quality of life of all, the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics organized the First Symposium on Statistics of Gender-based Violence in Puerto Rico, held on May 5, 2023. This Symposium provided a space that allowed us to deepen empirical evidence and provide key information that contributes to the prevention and eradication of gender-based violence in Puerto Rico.

The Initiative:

We worked from a health and statistical perspective, which validated the importance of continuing to provide data and statistics that allow us to continue designing strategies that help the economic and social development of Puerto Rico, and to build a healthy society both physically and mentally.

Presentations:

• Dr. Orville M. Disdier, Risky Behaviors in High School Students
• Lcd. Ileana V. Espada Martinez, About PARE
• Lieutenant Aymée Alvarado Cardona, COPOP
• Dr. Diego Zavala, The Health Approach
• Soé Rodríguez Álamo, and Brenda A. Guzmán Pagán, Sexual Violence and the Department of Health's Information Systems
• Myribel Santiago Torres, Domestic Violence Incident Rates in Puerto Rico, 2014-2021
• Mariluz Bezares Salinas, System for the Compilation and Management of Femicide and Transfemicide Statistics
• Dr. Raúl G Castellanos, Gender-based Violence from the PAHO/WHO Perspective
• Attorney Laura E. Hernández Gutierrez, The Department of Justice's Development of Statistical Data on Gender-based Violence
• Alberto L. Velázquez-Estrada, Violent Deaths and Life Expectancy PR 2001-2021
• Dr. Francisco Pesante Gonzalez, Women's Participation in Education and the Workforce
• Leyda I. Soto Lopez, Labor and Economic Variables by Gender in Puerto Rico

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Additional Information on Gender-based Violence Statistics: Statistics on Gender-based Violence in Puerto Rico

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On Friday, August 7, staff from the Institute of Statistics held a workshop as part of the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo professional training series. Focusing on how to identify data related to the Puerto Rican diaspora, Dr. Ronald Hernández Maldonado, Lanselotte Oliveras Vega and Alberto L. Velázquez Estrada shared information on available sources and tools. Specifically, the session covered topics such as census data sources and their differences, community vulnerability estimates, custom tabulations using the U.S. Census Bureau's MDAT tool, and the cost-of-living index and its calculator for metropolitan areas in Puerto Rico and the United States.