San Juan, PR — The U.S. Census Bureau today released the most recent data from the Puerto Rico Community Survey known as the Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) at the municipal level. These statistics refer to information collected from 2012 to 2016, a period of 5 years or a five-year period. The new publication provides data on social, economic and housing characteristics for Puerto Rico and for all municipalities, as well as for some specific geographical levels such as neighborhoods, census tracts and block groups. As the leading entity of the U.S. Census Bureau's State Data Center Network in Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute (Institute) presents this brief summary of some of the results:

1. During the 5-year period (2012-16), the median household income in Puerto Rico was $19,606, which decreased by about 4 percent compared to the previous five-year period (2007-11) when the median income was $20,403.
2. Comparing the two five-year periods (2012-16 vs. 2007-11) at the municipal level:
   • In 51 municipalities, there was a decrease in the median household income, and in 17 of these municipalities the change was statistically significant, with a confidence level of 90%.
   • The 5 municipalities that showed the highest decrease according to the percentage change in household income were: Guayama, Las Marías, Adjuntas, Lajas and Santa Isabel.
   • On the other hand, the 5 municipalities that showed the highest increase in household income were: Salinas, Naranjito, Culebra, Juana Díaz and Morovis.

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At the Puerto Rico level, data indicate a reduction of about $800 in household income during the most recent five-year period 2012-16 compared to the previous 2007-2011. Looking at income by category, the proportion of households with incomes under $10,000 increased from 28% to 29% between the two periods, pointing to more households with minimum incomes in Puerto Rico. As for municipalities, 65% of these reflected a decrease in the median household income without showing any particular geographical pattern. On the other hand, seven municipalities showed an increase of 12% or more in household income, located in the center, south and east of Puerto Rico,” said Alberto L. Velázquez-Estrada, manager of statistical projects at the Institute.

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More statistics on the Community Survey estimates can be obtained at: http://factfinder2.census.gov/. If you need assistance using this tool to get
data, you may find the self-study guide useful for using this available tool: https://censo.estadisticas.pr/fact-finder . Information on the methodology used to produce the estimates can be accessed here.

In addition, as the leading entity of Puerto Rico's SDC, the IEPR manages the SDC portal, which contains the main statistical reports and publications of the U.S. Census Bureau on Puerto Rico, specifically those that are most in demand, such as annual population estimates; the Puerto Rico Community Survey and official statistics on Puerto Rico's decennial population and housing censuses, among others. The Puerto Rico SDC portal can be accessed through: https://censo.estadisticas.pr/.

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. The Institute has in its inventory, accessible through
https://estadisticas.pr.gov, over 300 statistical products. In addition, it is a custodian and provides access to over 100 data sets or “data sets” through www.data.pr.gov and to over 40 tables and more than 6 thousand indicators through: www.indicadores.pr.

For more information you can visit our website: https://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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Destaca Puerto Rico en la posición número uno en excelencia del Sistema de Vigilancia de Muertes Violentas

El sistema es operado en Puerto Rico por el Instituto de Estadísticas

El Sistema de Muertes Violentas de Puerto Rico (PRVDRS, por sus siglas en inglés) del Instituto de Estadísticas de Puerto Rico figuró en la posición número uno en excelencia en la puntualidad y completitud de los datos, entre 42 jurisdicciones participantes de los Estados Unidos, según reportó el Sistema Nacional de Reportes de Muertes Violentas de los Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades de los Estados Unidos (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés). El informe incluyó los hallazgos sobre la evaluación de los indicadores de desempeño en la recopilación de los datos de muertes violentas correspondiente al año 2017.

Los indicadores evaluados fueron aquellos relacionados con la puntualidad y con la completitud de los datos, específicamente los siguientes:

• La puntualidad de los casos iniciados dentro de los 120 días de la muerte. Este indicador evalúa el porcentaje de casos que fueron registrados dentro de los 4 meses posteriores a la fecha de la muerte.
• Completitud de la información. Este indicador evalúa cuán completos son los datos en términos de su información descriptiva e información sobre las circunstancias del incidente.

           El informe de evaluación demuestra y concluye que, en todos los indicadores de desempeño evaluados, el PRVDRS recibió la categoría de excelente, la cual es la clasificación más alta que se puede obtener. Además, en la clasificación general, el PRVDRS obtuvo el primer lugar en el ranking entre todas las 42 jurisdicciones participantes en los Estados Unidos durante el año 2017.

Destaca el hecho de que esta excelente clasificación se obtiene a pesar de que, durante el periodo de recopilación de los datos, el personal del PRVDRS tuvo que afrontar retos enormes, como lo fueron los huracanes Irma y María.

“Gracias al compromiso incondicional del equipo de trabajo del PRVDRS, del Registro Demográfico del Departamento de Salud, de los Negociados de Ciencias Forenses y de la Policía de Puerto Rico, quienes son agencias colaboradoras del proyecto, alcanzamos los más altos estándares de calidad a tono con nuestro compromiso de contar con estadísticas completas, confiables y de rápido y universal acceso.  Cuando a principios del año 2020, el PRVDRS y las agencias colaboradoras publiquen sus primeros datos, Puerto Rico contará, por primera vez, con estadísticas consolidadas, precisas y oportunas sobre las muertes violentas. Esto contribuirá al desarrollo y evaluación de políticas públicas basadas en la evidencia y dirigidas a reducir la incidencia de las muertes violentas en Puerto Rico”, expresó el Dr. Disdier, Director Ejecutivo Interino del Instituto de Estadísticas de Puerto Rico.

El Instituto de Estadísticas de Puerto Rico es una entidad gubernamental autónoma con la encomienda de coordinar el servicio de producción de estadísticas del Gobierno para asegurar que los sistemas de recopilación de datos y estadísticas, en los que se basan las políticas públicas, estén completos, sean confiables y de acceso rápido y universal.

Para más información puede visitar la página web www.estadisticas.pr.gov o las encuestas en las redes sociales de Facebook (@estadisticas.pr), Twitter (@EstadisticasPR) y Linkedin (Instituto de Estadísticas de Puerto Rico).

El PRVDRS es financiado en 90% por el NVDRS, de los CDC bajo el Grant # 6 NU17CE924857-02-03 y por el Instituto de Estadísticas de Puerto Rico.  El financiamiento se distribuye como sigue:

• Fondos federales (CDC): $249,566.00
• Fondos estatales (Instituto de Estadísticas de PR): $32,250.00

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Lourdes Burgos/787-562-2932/ lburgos@upfrontpr.net

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They add data on adult health conditions to the interactive map on school and community profiles

Based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)” annual survey

August 2, 2022: The executive director of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, Dr. Orville M. Disdier, announced that a new layer has been added to the interactive map on school and community profiles, known as the “School Community Profile: The Interactive Map”. This time, the new layer deals with aspects of adult health. This new layer presents statistics on several health conditions in the adult population (18 years and older), such as diabetes, asthma, heart disease, arthritis, and cancer, among others. The data are based on information collected by the annual “Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)” survey, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Department of Health. This particular layer is entitled “Behavioral Risk Surveillance System 2020 (CDC)” and must be activated using the “layers” menu. The data correspond to the calendar year 2020 and the statistics are available at the regional level, segregated into the following six (6) regions: Arecibo, Bayamón, Caguas, Mayagüez, Metro-Fajardo and Ponce.

“These data allow us to geo-correlate the regional prevalence of health characteristics of adult residents of those regions, with the rest of the diverse characteristics of schools, students and the communities that are located within them,” explained Dr. Disdier.

Some aspects that this new layer allows us to observe are, for example, that the prevalence of diabetes for 2020 was 19.3% for the Arecibo region, while for the Metro-Fajardo region it was 13%. On the other hand, for the Arecibo region, the prevalence of kidney disease was 3.3%, and for the Caguas region it was 2.6%. “The contrasts between the health aspects of the regions with the rest of the characteristics of the students, and their communities in those regions, could help improve health promotion and health risk prevention strategies within each community,” emphasized Dr. Disdier.

The School Community Profile: The Interactive Map”, with this new layer and all the others, resides on the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics website and can be accessed at any time by interested parties at the following e-mail address: School community profile.

For technical questions about this tool, you can send an email to: preguntas@estadisticas.pr.

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