Authorized statements by the Executive Director regarding the final approval of P. de la C. 1403

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26 December 2025

PRESS RELEASE
DR. MARIO MARAZZI-SANTIAGO
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS BY THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS REGARDING THE FINAL APPROVAL OF P. C. 1403 BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PUERTO RICO

Last night, the Legislative Assembly agreed on the Conference Committee and approved the House Project 1403 after deleting Chapter XII related to the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics.

We thank and congratulate both the House and the Senate for having completed the approval of the reorganization of the Department of Economic Development and Commerce, after having accepted our recommendation as well as the request of thousands of individuals and scientists, 47 world-renowned scientific organizations, 16 congressmen, the Puerto Rican National Agenda, the Private Sector Coalition, the Transparency Network, the Network of Foundations, the Academy for the Advancement of the Sciences, the American Statistical Association, the Royal Statistical Society, among many others, who publicly called for the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics to remain an autonomous entity of the Government of Puerto Rico.

We reiterate our best willingness to hold an open dialogue regarding the future of the Institute of Statistics, its role within the Government of Puerto Rico and our society, so that we are allowed to continue working to ensure that the systems for collecting data and statistics, on which public policies are based, are complete, reliable and accessible quickly and universally.

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Platform to learn about the progress of vaccination against COVID-19 in Puerto Rico

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Puerto Rico Statistics Institute launches digital platform that will help monitor the progress of vaccination against COVID-19 in Puerto Rico

The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute (Institute) made available today the COVID-19 Vaccination Indicator Platform, a digital tool that will help monitor vaccination progress in Puerto Rico, said its executive director, Dr. Orville M. Disdier. This mechanism will include indicators generated by the entity based on the quantity of vaccines administered and data provided by the Puerto Rico Department of Health, which meet the Institute's minimum quality criteria.

The platform presents, through tables, graphs and maps, the number of people vaccinated in Puerto Rico according to the doses administered; the demographic characteristics in terms of sex and age of the people vaccinated according to the dose; the age and sex distribution of the people vaccinated according to the dose; the people aged 16 and over vaccinated according to the dose per 10,000 inhabitants, as well as the 10 municipalities with the highest and lowest vaccination rates per 10,000 inhabitants.

“The purpose of this platform is to use recorded data on the vaccination process in Puerto Rico to generate some statistics and indicators. These indicators, although not intended to serve as a method of prediction or projection, will certainly help to know the progress of vaccination in Puerto Rico and the characteristics of those vaccinated, which will be an excellent source of information for all those interested in this topic,” said Disdier.

The platform is available through the link: COVID-19 Vaccination Indicator Platform. The content, as reported, will be updated weekly according to data availability.

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.

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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