Statistics Institute launches subscription system to offer recent statistical products

The service is free of charge

Current statistics, is the new official registry of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics to provide, through a subscription system, recent statistical products to citizens. Subscribers of Current statistics they will receive relevant data directly to their emails on specific topics in which they indicated that they had an interest. In this way, they will have up-to-date information on preferred data, whether for work, study, business or general interest purposes.

Through this system, whose registration process is quick and simple, subscribers will select the topics of interest on which they want to receive updated data once they are available. The Institute will also share with subscribers updated information that is considered to be of interest to the subscriber community. The subscription service to Current statistics it's free, but interested parties must register through the following link: Subscriptions.

“This new service allows us to continue to make the data and statistical products generated by the Institute accessible to all people. In the same way, it is an excellent tool to continue educating about the importance of statistics, since eventually subscribers will have exclusive access to Current statistics vlog, in which educational information, novel and relevant to the field of statistics, will be published,” said Dr. Orville M. Disdier Flores, Executive Director of the Institute.

The service, as reported, is aimed at anyone interested in obtaining statistical data such as researchers, health professionals, statisticians, teachers, demographers, journalists, university students, human behavior professionals, public servants, among others.

All statistical products produced or published by the Statistics Institute are available at www.estadisticas.pr. However, subscribers to Current Statistics will have the advantage of receiving direct notifications to their email about the most recent data produced or published by the Institute.

The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute is a governmental entity in the executive branch, with fiscal and administrative autonomy, whose main purpose is to ensure that Puerto Rico has complete, reliable statistics that are quickly and universally accessible. To learn more about the Institute of Statistics, you can access the website: www.estadisticas.pr.gov. On social media through Facebook accounts (@statistics.pr), Twitter (@EstadisticasPR), Instagram (@institutodeestadisticas) and LinkedIn (Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics).

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PRESS RELEASE

Statistics Institute publishes fourth edition of the Creative Industries Report

The Report for the year 2018 reflects the decline in several indicators

San Juan, PR, January 12, 2021 — During the calendar year 2018, the number of people employed in Creative Industries was estimated at 22,172, with the media sector employing the most people, accounting for 47.5% of these. Overall, this meant a decrease of 1,217 jobs compared to 2017. This was revealed in the Creative Industries Report 2018, published by the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, and which presents social, economic and labor indicators for the development of creative industries in Puerto Rico. The sources used for this report correspond to the data sets of the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Department of Education - National Center for Education Statistics And the U.S. Customs. Here are some of the most relevant findings:

1. The number of post-secondary graduates in areas related to the creative industries was 2,453 students (2,329 in 2017).
2. The microenterprise category characterizes 68% of creative industries because they are mostly companies that employed between 1 and 4 employees.
3. The number of establishments ranged from 1,731 to 1,943 (between 1,908 and 2,054 for 2017). The sector dedicated to the arts was the largest with 632 establishments.
4. In the distribution by sex, men occupied 63% of jobs.
5. Wages by industry fluctuated between $5,123 (theater companies) and $120,732 (software publishing).
6. Average salaries per occupation ranged from $17,780 for movie ushers to an average of $60,750 for software developers.
7. At the time of the study, Puerto Rico had a rate of 6.1 establishments dedicated to creative industries per 10,000 inhabitants (6.4 in 2017).
8. The trade balance of cultural industry activity was negative when imports exceeded exports by $189,475,346 (the negative balance in 2017 was $167,454,125).

“The creative industries were mostly comprised of companies that employed between 1 and 4 employees. The decline experienced in several of the indicators, such as the number of establishments and people employed in creative industries, may respond to the passage of Hurricane Maria through Puerto Rico in September 2017 and its effects on infrastructure, electrical energy and telecommunications services, whose consequences lasted for several months following the event. These circumstances greatly affected the most vulnerable commercial and industrial sectors,” said Francisco Pesante, Assistant for Statistical Projects at the Institute and author of the report.

See more details and information about the Creative Industries Report, as well as previous publications, in the Publications section of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics: Publications.

The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute is an autonomous governmental entity responsible for 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 have quick and universal access.

For more information you can visit our website: www.estadisticas.pr.gov. In addition, you can follow us on social networks through Facebook (@estadisticas .pr), Twitter (@EstadisticasPR) and LinkedIn (Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico) accounts.

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