The Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico issues a favorable opinion on the fiscal operations of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics

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22 December 2025

The Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico issues a favorable opinion on the fiscal operations of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics

“The tests carried out and the evidence in our possession revealed that the operations of the Institute subject to this Report were carried out, in all significant respects, in accordance with applicable law and regulations.”

“The Report comments that since the Institute of Statistics was created in 2003, the Legislature has not allocated the budget for the special fund contrary to Law 209-2003 which establishes an allocation of $2,000,000 as an initial item to finance projects for methodological improvements or statistical products. As of May 28, 2021, the Institute had not received the allocation for the special fund.”

“This situation prevented the Institute from updating Puerto Rico's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) methodology. This measurement of GDP is necessary for the Federal Government to integrate the measurement of Puerto Rico's economy, as required by the Report by the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status of March 11, 2011 under the presidency of Barack Obama.”

Source:

AUDIT REPORT DA-22-06

More information at:

https://www.ocpr.gov.pr/... /auditor-report-of-22... /

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Statistics Institute publishes the Creative Industries report 2017

PRESS RELEASE

DR. ORVILLE M. DISDIER FLORES

INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Statistics Institute publishes the Creative Industries report 2017

It reveals that the total number of establishments dedicated to Creative Industries was 2,054, the majority (41.7%) belonging to the Arts sector.

San Juan, PR, December 17, 2018 — The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute (Institute) today released its report of Creative Industries in Puerto Rico 2017, as part of public policy aimed at supporting the development of this sector, in accordance with Law No. 173 of October 13, 2014, also known as the Act to Promote Creative Industries. This law summarizes creative industries into the following groups:

  • Design (graphic, industrial, fashion and interiors)
  • Arts (music, visual and performing arts and publications)
  • Media (application development, video games, online media, digital content and multimedia)
  • Creative Services (architecture and creative education)

Here are some of the publication's key findings:

  1. The total number of establishments dedicated to Creative Industries totaled 2,054. With 41.7% of the establishments, the Arts sector had the largest number of Creative Industries. Within this sector, the specific industries of Computer Systems Design were the one with the highest number with 195 establishments (10.2%).
  2. The largest number of establishments (59.3%) was characterized by being in the category of 1 to 4 employees.
  3. In terms of the number of employees per Creative Industry, the Media sector accounted for 46% (8,454) of the people employed in Creative Industries.
  4. The largest number of employees is in the Computer Systems Design industry with 2,154 employees.
  5. The Creative Industries were numerically dominated by the male population. The number of male population totaled 34,542 (63%) people, while the employed female population was estimated at 20,323 (37%) people.
  6. The average annual wage for all industries was $28,680, the median was $23,650 and the minimum was $6,492.
  7. The highest average annual wage was for the Software Publishing-related industry at $118,200.
  8. The highest average annual salary, by occupation, was System Software Developers with $62.120.

Francisco Pesante González, author of the report, stated that “despite the fact that Puerto Rico has been in recession for more than 10 years, and has had to face the effects of hurricanes Irma and María, the 2017 indicators reveal consistent growth in exports from creative industries.”

For his part, Dr. Orville M. Disdier, Acting Executive Director, said: “With this third report prepared and published by the Institute of Statistics, we reiterate our commitment to join forces with the Institute of Culture and the Trade and Export Company, aimed at continuing the promotion and support of Creative Industries in Puerto Rico.”

To access the full report you can visit: Creative industries.

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.

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

Destaca Puerto Rico en la posición número uno en excelencia del Sistema de Vigilancia de Muertes Violentas

Comunicado de Prensa

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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Contactos de Prensa:

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

Idia Martínez/787-603-3200 /imartinez@upfrontpr.net

Institute of Puerto Rican Culture joins Puerto Rico's Financial Transparency System to hold citizens accountable for their income and expenses

Institute of Puerto Rican Culture joins Puerto Rico's Financial Transparency System to hold citizens accountable for their income and expenses