Statistics Institute participates in The Hour of Code 2015
Number of high school graduate students in Puerto Rico's public system will be below 20,000 in 2020
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Instituto de Estadísticas publica el Perfil de Salud y Seguridad del Estudiante en Puerto Rico: Años 2015-2017
El 41.5% de los estudiantes en duodécimo grado afirmaron haber tenido relaciones sexuales en algún momento en sus vidas y un 33.4% informaron estar activos sexualmente.
El 41.5% de los estudiantes de duodécimo grado, en escuela superior en el sector público, informaron haber tenido relaciones sexuales en algún momento en sus vidas y el 33.4% informaron estar activos sexualmente. Además, el 13.7% de los estudiantes de escuela superior, en el sector público, intentaron suicidarse en una o más ocasiones. Estos son parte de los resultados del informe titulado “Perfil de Salud y Seguridad del Estudiante en Puerto Rico: Años 2015-2017”, publicado hoy por el Instituto de Estadísticas de Puerto Rico. El informe presenta un perfil estadístico de aspectos relacionados a la salud y a la seguridad de los estudiantes en Puerto Rico para los años 2015 y 2017. El documento incluye estadísticas sobre el acoso escolar, acoso electrónico, comportamiento violento, comportamiento sexual, uso de drogas y sobre los hábitos alimentarios de los estudiantes de escuela superior en escuelas públicas. Por otro lado, el informe incluye también estadísticas sobre incidentes delictivos en las instituciones postsecundarias públicas y privadas. Los datos fueron obtenidos de bases de datos secundarias como lo son el Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) y el Campus Safety and Security Data (CSSD).
“Para que el proceso educativo sea efectivo, es imprescindible que ocurra dentro de un ambiente seguro, libre de intimidaciones o de riesgos explícitos o implícitos. De igual forma, un estudiante que no está física o mentalmente saludable tendrá mayor dificultad en cumplir con las exigencias académicas. Conocer este perfil del estudiante nos brinda la información necesaria, para tomar las acciones pertinentes, hacia un ambiente educativo que propicie el aprendizaje y para promover un estilo de vida saludable en nuestros estudiantes”, señaló el Dr. Orville M. Disdier, autor principal del informe y Director Ejecutivo Interino del Instituto de Estadísticas de Puerto Rico.
Por su parte, Dharma R. Rodríguez, coautora del informe y participante del Programa de Internado del Instituto, agregó que "el perfil de salud y seguridad nos alerta a cerca de la necesidad de repensar las medidas o políticas públicas establecidas para trabajar la seguridad y salud (física y mental) de los estudiantes. Por tanto, hay una clara urgencia de brindar más herramientas y recursos a los profesionales responsables de lograr la mejoría que los estudiantes merecen".
A continuación, se presentan algunos de los hallazgos generales y más sobresalientes, sobre los estudiantes de escuela superior del sector público:
Para sector postsecundario público y privado:
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Puerto Rico Statistics Institute releases results for fiscal year 2021-2022
In one year, they update data on violent deaths, gender-based violence, child abuse and present the first report on the needs of the deaf community in Puerto Rico
September 12, 2022: The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics released its Results Report for the 2021-2022 fiscal year, which includes a summary of the most significant achievements during this period.
“During the 2021-2022 fiscal year, the Institute continued and initiated several comprehensive projects and programs with a significant impact on Puerto Rico. This is thanks to technological innovation and the undisputed commitment of an excellent team,” said Dr. Orville M. Disdier Flores, executive director of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics.
The report highlights the updating of data on violent deaths in Puerto Rico, through the publication of the 2018 Annual Violent Deaths Report. Later this year, the report for 2019 and then the report for 2020 will be published. The Puerto Rico Violent Death Notification System (PRVDRS) collects, analyzes and publishes information on all violent deaths in Puerto Rico that occur due to suicide, homicide, unintentional firearm injuries, deaths due to legal intervention (except the death penalty) and deaths with undetermined intent.
The report also points out that it was possible to obtain more and better statistics on gender-based violence in Puerto Rico, published in the Platform for Statistics and Indicators of Gender-based Violence. Regarding this topic, the Institute drafted guidelines for the implementation of the System for the Compilation and Management of Statistical Data on Gender-based Violence in Puerto Rico, in compliance with Law 40 of August 27, 2021, and worked with the Puerto Rico Police Bureau to draft collaboration agreements.
Disdier stated that, “in an achievement for the deaf community in Puerto Rico, the Institute conducted a study on the needs of this community, both the adult population and the children and the tools their teachers need to support them in schools.” This new product, called Deaf Community Needs Study: Interactive Report, presents the first results of the survey that the Institute conducted, both to deaf and partially deaf people, and to the general public. In addition, the interactive report presents the results of focus group interviews with teachers of students with hearing difficulties. The Institute will continue with additional phases of the study in fiscal year 2023.
In the same way, it should be noted in the report, the development and publication of the Puerto Rico Child Abuse Profile: Interactive Report 2018-2022, which consists of a new digital platform through which statistics related to child abuse are organized and summarized, based on secondary data provided by various local agencies and the federal government. Available statistics show the number of children abused per year, the rates of abuse, the geographical distribution of abuse, the distribution and magnitude of the types of abuse, the ratio of the perpetrator, and the contrast between Puerto Rico and other jurisdictions in the United States. Not only does this profile fill an information gap that existed since the previous publication, which dates back to 2015, but now the report is a digital and interactive one, in which the user can select between several years, categories and variables, and can even download the data for subsequent analysis.
“During the next fiscal year of 2023, we will continue to work on important contributions to the Puerto Rico Statistics Production Service. These efforts will continue to strengthen our capacity as a society to make decisions based on empirical data, which will continue, in turn, to help Puerto Rico set out on the path of sustainable socio-economic development,” concluded Disdier.
The Results Report of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics is available, free of charge, on the Institute's website and its PDF version is downloadable through the following link: Results Report 2021_22.pdf.
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