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

PUERTO RICO STATE DATA CENTER NETWORK (SDC-PR)

It is urgent to answer the 2020 Census

Only one in four households in Puerto Rico has responded

San Juan, PR, July 15, 2020 — The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute reported that, as of July 13, only 25% of households in Puerto Rico had responded to the 2020 Decennial Census. This percentage places Puerto Rico in the lowest response position compared to other jurisdictions. In addition, it indicates that Puerto Rico is 29 percentage points lower than the self-employed response to the previous Census in 2010 (54%).

During the months of April and June, field personnel from the Federal Census Bureau delivered the questionnaire and invitation to complete it to homes. The information that residents must provide is of paramount importance for the immediate future of Puerto Rico and its municipalities. Completing the 2020 Census, among many other aspects of social and economic planning, allows:

• Find out how many there are specifically in Puerto Rico
• that children have the necessary services for their development
• that our elderly population get their proper care
• a correct and adequate distribution of funds for our population

Currently, in municipalities, the level of response ranges from 14 to 31 percent. Among the lowest levels are Culebra, Vieques, Rincón Guánica and Luquillo. On the other hand, the highest percentages at the moment indicate that they are those in the municipalities of Hormigueros, Guaynabo, Bayamón, Sabana Grande and Caguas. Detailed response information by town can be accessed at censo.estadisticas.pr.

“Just by taking 10 to 15 minutes to complete it, residents of each household can significantly improve their response to the 2020 Census. They can do it either by Internet, paper or telephone,” said Alberto L. Velázquez-Estrada, manager of statistical projects at the Institute.

Answering the Census is a constitutional mandate. Census data influences daily life, providing information for making important decisions about funding community services and infrastructure, including health care, senior centers, jobs, political representation, roads, schools and businesses. In other words, it serves as a guide so that communities can obtain the fair funds they need, as well as supporting companies to make decisions based on data that encourage the economy. For more details, data and information about the 2020 Census you can access to: https://2020census.gov/es.html.

About the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics

The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute is an autonomous governmental entity tasked with 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 accessible quickly and universally. In addition, as the leading entity of the SDC in Puerto Rico, the Institute manages the SDC portal, which contains the main statistical reports and publications of the U.S. Census Bureau about Puerto Rico, specifically those that are most in demand, such as annual population estimates, the Puerto Rico Community Survey (Puerto Rico Community Survey) and official statistics on Puerto Rico's 10-year population and housing censuses, among others. The Puerto Rico SDC portal can be accessed through: https://censo.estadisticas.pr/.

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

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Press Contact:

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The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute is successfully complying with the “Protocol for Suicide Prevention”

On January 12 of this year, the Commission for Suicide Prevention (Department of Health) certified that the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute met all the requirements regarding the creation and implementation of a “Protocol for Suicide Prevention” in the agency.

The Institute is part of the 52 agencies or entities of the Executive Branch (out of a total of 121) that complied with this protocol.

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