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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Free workshops and webinars at the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics

For government officials and the general public

Starting today, Wednesday, February 22, 2023, pre-registration begins for the free offer of workshops and webinars offered by the Statistics Institute of Puerto Rico. This virtual offer of nine workshops with 16 sessions and three webinars seeks to provide solutions in the access, management and analysis of government statistical data and is carried out with rigor and quality in the development of content that is carried out by specialists.

The online format offers the opportunity to participate to government officials and the general public, since the format is asynchronous, that is, within the time available to the participant. In the same way, multiple sessions are included, allowing participants the flexibility to enroll on those dates that are most convenient. Interested individuals can complete pre-enrollment at Academy

The topics included are:

• • • R statistical analysis software: one of the most commonly used open-access and user-friendly software for Data analytics and Data Science.
      • R basic: introductory workshop to help publicize and facilitate the adoption of this programming language for people interested in strengthening their resources for the processing, analysis, visualization and presentation of their statistical research.
      • RStudio: introduction to the integrated development environment (IDE, in English) for managing R, in the analysis, visualization and presentation of statistical analyses.
      • Tidycensus: R library that facilitates the access and processing of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, such as the Census, population estimates and the Community Survey.
    • Tableau Public: free platform that allows the use of interface commands to explore, create and publish data and visualizations online.
    • Resources from the U.S. Census Bureau:
      • Population and housing data: presentation and performance of practical exercises on the tool https://data.census.gov/ to search for data on population and housing in Puerto Rico.
      • Access to microdata from the Community Survey: tool for customizing variable crosses for the analysis of population and housing data in Puerto Rico.
      • QGIS for analyzing data by geographical regions: QGIS is an open source Geographic Information System (GIS). Together with data from the U.S. Census Bureau, maps can be generated to analyze housing, economic, social and demographic issues.
    • Resources from the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics:
      • Cost of Living Index and Calculator: presentation of a publication and Web App that allows us to compare the cost of living in Puerto Rico and different urban areas of the United States.
      • The Violent Death Surveillance System in Puerto Rico: project presentation and publication of data on violent deaths from a health perspective.

On the other hand, webinars are live sessions, in which participants can connect via the Internet to a platform where they can see and hear the speaker and ask the speaker questions after the session is completed.

The topics of the three webinars, with a capacity of 1,000 participants each, are:

• Dominican population in Puerto Rico and its contrasts with the Puerto Rican population, 2015-2019: exposure to the microdata files of the U.S. Census Bureau and an example of their application to the study of the sociodemographic profile of the Dominican population living in Puerto Rico.
• Geographic Delimitations of the U.S. Census Bureau: guidance on the various geographical levels used by the U.S. Census Bureau for the presentation of its data.
• Violence and Femicide in Puerto Rico - Concepts and Statistics: aimed at advising participants on the importance of statistics on gender-based violence and femicide from a health perspective.

To access all the details of the Academies and Workshops Program, see Here.

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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