PRESS RELEASE

DR. MARIO MARAZZI‐SANTIAGO

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Statistics Institute announces enrollment period for the first semester of its training courses in data production and analysis

San Juan, PR, October 12, 2018 — The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute (Institute) announced the beginning of the enrollment period for the first semester of its Academies and Workshops for the 2018-2019 fiscal year, whose purpose is to provide the theoretical basis and best practices on issues related to statistics.

For this first semester, several academies and workshops of interest will be offered, including a course online which is included in the curriculum under Virtual Academy. It is called “Ckan as a data tool” and will take place from October 29 to November 5 for a total of 15 hours. For this purpose, the learning platform will be used Moodle and a link will be provided to access it via the Internet.

In addition, the following workshop will be offered “RStudio: Statistical Tool” at the Pre-Basic, Basic, Basic-Intermediate and Intermediate levels. All have a duration of 3 hours. While this time there will be a wide range of Webinars which includes five 1-hour alternatives to choose from. These are:”Tableau Public: Tool for dynamic data visualization”, “Interactive Tools of the U.S. Census Bureau/Update on work towards the 2020 Census”, “Introduction to Python” at Pre-Basic and Basic levels, as well as “QGIS for visualizing municipal data” at Basic Level.

The Institute's Academies and Workshops will be held starting next October 18 and will run until December 14, 2018. Pre-enrollment must be done through the Institute's Online Enrollment System (SML), which can be accessed through the following Internet address: https://estadisticas.pr.gov/academia. The SML requires the applicant to complete a pre-enrollment form and accept the pre-enrollment rules and terms. After the Institute processes the application, the applicant will be notified, by email, if he was officially accepted and enrolled, if he was placed on the waiting list or, on the contrary, the request was denied.

“We urge all interested parties to pre-register on time to ensure their participation as spaces are limited. It is important to remember that, in order to benefit from our Academies and Workshops, it is necessary to register through our website,” said Dr. Orville M. Disdier Flores, Director of the Institute's Academies and Workshops Program.

If you would like to contact Dr. Disdier Flores directly, you can do so at (787) 993-3342 or via email: orville.disdier@estadisticas.pr.

The Institute's Academies and Workshops are primarily aimed at government professionals working in statistical functions, but are also available to individuals and professionals from non-profit institutions and the private sector. Only in the latter case would a small tuition charge apply. For government employees, courses are free of charge, and employees of non-profit organizations can request a fee waiver.

The curricular design of these courses, which are offered every semester, takes into consideration the fact that statistical analysis is not an isolated process since it is strongly linked to other activities, such as sample design and data entry management. It is for this reason that the courses cover everything from basic topics to more specialized or advanced topics, to address the challenges in data management that public and private organizations face on a daily basis.

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 www.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.

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 on 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 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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Press Contact: Sandra Morales Blanes/(787) 688-0401

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PRESS RELEASE

DR. MARIO MARAZZI‐SANTIAGO

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

67,000 people immigrated from Puerto Rico to the United States in 2016

This represents a new record, as revealed by the most recent Migrant Profile published by the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics.

San Juan, PR, June 20, 2018 — In 2016 89,000 people immigrated to the United States, thus maintaining the same record level as last year, while there was an increase of 3,000 compared to 2015, for a total of -67,000 people, who emigrated in net terms. This represents a new immigration record for Puerto Rico.

This was revealed in the 2016 Migrant Profile, which was released today and presents a look at the migratory movement of Puerto Rico in the 2016 calendar year using the Survey on the Community of U.S. Census Bureau, as well as the net movement data of air passengers from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and the Ports Authority. Here are some of the report's other key findings:

1. In 2016, Puerto Rico's migration indicators showed that:

• -24,000 people immigrated to the United States with some post-secondary education in net terms (Community Survey)
• -84 thousand air passengers to all destinations in net terms (BTS)
• -98 thousand air passengers to all destinations in net terms, (Ports Authority)

2. For 2016 (before considering the impact of the 2017 hurricanes), the current wave of migration showed no sign of abating. In the 12-year period between 2005 and 2016, in net terms:

• -524 thousand people immigrated to the United States (Community Survey)
• -662,000 air passengers departed to all destinations (BTS)
• -830 thousand air passengers departed to all destinations (Ports Authority)

3. The ten states with the highest net migration balance in relation to Puerto Rico were Florida, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Connecticut, Georgia, New Jersey, Virginia and Kentucky.

4. Between 2015 and 2016, the profile of the population that migrated between Puerto Rico and the United States changed in several ways:

• The difference in the median age between the emigrant and immigrant population of Puerto Rico was minimal, close to 0.4 years, with the youngest emigrants having a median age of 29.5 years and the immigrants being 29.9 years old.
• The percentage of the emigrant population with some post-secondary education showed an increase of 4 percentage points from 53% to 57%; this percentage of people for the immigrant population increased by 3 percentage points from 45% to 48%.
• The percentage of emigrants who are out of the labor force (after migrating) decreased by 3 percentage points between 2015 (41%) and 2016 (38%) and among immigrants it increased by 8 percentage points from 50% to 58%.
• The median income of emigrants and immigrants between Puerto Rico and the United States increased by 13 and 7 percent respectively between 2015 and 2016.

5. In 2016, 46% of immigrants and 38% of migrants were living in poverty.

6. The occupational group with the highest frequency among emigrants was Management and Professional, followed by Sales and Office occupations. As for specific occupations:

• Between 457 and 3,831 emigrants were employed as customer service representatives.
• Between 764 and 3,212 were employed by retailers, it was estimated that between 826 and 2,412 emigrants were teachers and between 548 and 2,324 were cashiers.

“Among the characteristics examined in 2016, a remarkable 57% of emigrants aged 25 and over had some education greater than high school. In addition, the percentage of emigrants outside the labor force once mobilized in the United States was 37%, compared to 55% with a similar characteristic in Puerto Rico. This picture makes clear the lack of opportunities on the island to allow more people to be inserted into the labor sector, even though more than half of the adults who decided to emigrate have some preparation and potential to be employed. One wonders if we are considering these types of indicators and their trends in order to counteract this pattern,” said Alberto L. Velázquez-Estrada, manager of statistical projects at the Institute.

The full report, as well as previous publications of the profile, are available on the Institute's portal at www.estadisticas.pr.gov, you can also access the various publications in the profile via direct link hither.

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 www.estadisticas.pr.gov, about 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.

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 on 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 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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Press Contact: Sandra Morales Blanes/(787) 688-0401

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The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute (Institute) today released the Statistical Yearbook of the Puerto Rico Education System 2013-2014.

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