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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Statistics Institute reveals the Migrant Profile 2013

PRESS RELEASE

Statistics Institute releases new version of the Occupied Positions Report

A new programming improves the visualization of the statistics of positions held in the government

A new programming carried out by the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics will allow a better visualization of the Occupied Positions (PO) Report in the Government and the ability to compare current information with previous months, among other advantages. For the redesign of this report, free of charge and open source software was used R, so now it is done completely through this program, eliminating manual processes that were previously carried out.

“This new program is an advanced one because it optimizes the efficiency and effectiveness of statistical processes on this topic, improves our ability to monitor government positions with updated information, and allows comparisons to be made with previous years.”, said Dr. Orville M. Disdier, executive director of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics.

The new design, as indicated by Ana Gabriela Jara Castro, manager of statistical projects at the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, includes a monthly report tabulated by agency and type of position, in addition to the time series, with the following information:

1. Number of POs at the end of the reference month, broken down by type of position (career, trust, temporary, irregular, among others) and by type of agency.
2. Monthly change in the number of POs by type of position and by type of entity.
3. Total PO for each government entity.

Jara Castro explained that, within this new format, a table (Table 4) was included that represents entities that have not reported their positions to the Office of the Comptroller for more than six months.

“The inclusion of this new table will allow the accountability process, for positions in government entities, to be a more transparent one, and more accessible to the population. The main objective of this report is to summarize the information of all the agencies represented in the Office of the Comptroller on its website,” said Ana G. Jara Castro, who was primarily responsible for the redesign of the report.

According to the website of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, the statistics presented in the Report on Statistics of Occupied Government Positions, come from the Register of Occupied Positions and Related Information, created under Act No. 103-2006, known as the Puerto Rico Government Tax Reform Act of 2006. This law states that every governmental entity has a duty to certify this information to the Comptroller's Office on a monthly basis. In those cases where the entity has not fulfilled its duty to certify its figures in a timely manner, the Statistics Institute performs a simple statistical attribution of the missing data to complete the statistics. All figures are under constant review and may change in future reports. The January 2021 edition is the most recent edition of this report and reflects that the number of total POs in government has fallen from 275,448 in January 2008 to 150,502 in January 2021. In the same way, “De Carrera” POs have fallen from 218,540 in January 2008 to 109,975 in January 2021. The report can be accessed through the following link: Statistics of Occupied Positions in the Government.

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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