Statistics Institute launches subscription system to offer recent statistical products

The service is free of charge

Current statistics, is the new official registry of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics to provide, through a subscription system, recent statistical products to citizens. Subscribers of Current statistics they will receive relevant data directly to their emails on specific topics in which they indicated that they had an interest. In this way, they will have up-to-date information on preferred data, whether for work, study, business or general interest purposes.

Through this system, whose registration process is quick and simple, subscribers will select the topics of interest on which they want to receive updated data once they are available. The Institute will also share with subscribers updated information that is considered to be of interest to the subscriber community. The subscription service to Current statistics it's free, but interested parties must register through the following link: Subscriptions.

“This new service allows us to continue to make the data and statistical products generated by the Institute accessible to all people. In the same way, it is an excellent tool to continue educating about the importance of statistics, since eventually subscribers will have exclusive access to Current statistics vlog, in which educational information, novel and relevant to the field of statistics, will be published,” said Dr. Orville M. Disdier Flores, Executive Director of the Institute.

The service, as reported, is aimed at anyone interested in obtaining statistical data such as researchers, health professionals, statisticians, teachers, demographers, journalists, university students, human behavior professionals, public servants, among others.

All statistical products produced or published by the Statistics Institute are available at www.estadisticas.pr. However, subscribers to Current Statistics will have the advantage of receiving direct notifications to their email about the most recent data produced or published by the Institute.

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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The value of investment in Research and Development in Puerto Rico increases

Donations to non-profit organizations in Puerto Rico increased 136.5% in eight years

Report from the Institute of Statistics and UPR reveals that donations deducted from payroll exceeded $329 million in 2023

The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics and the Graduate School of Public Administration (EGAP) of the University of Puerto Rico published the new Generosity Report 2015-2023, an analysis that reveals sustained growth in monetary donations reported by taxpayers in Puerto Rico over the past eight years.

The report, based on official data from the Department of Treasury on deductions claimed for donations to non-profit organizations, shows that total monetary donations increased from $139.5 million in 2015 to $329.8 million in 2023, representing a cumulative increase of 136.5%.

The analysis also reveals that, during the period studied, taxpayers in Puerto Rico claimed an average of $231.9 million annually in deductions for donations. The largest annual increase occurred between 2020 and 2021, when deductions grew 19.6%, a behavior that coincides with the period after the pandemic and multiple emergencies that impacted Puerto Rico.

“The report confirms that in Puerto Rico there is a culture of support and solidarity that deserves to be documented and studied in greater depth. This data allow us to begin to measure Puerto Rico's philanthropic behavior, using official and comparable information,” said Dr. Luz Mairym López-Rodríguez, associate professor at EGAP and project manager.

The doctor added that “the preparation of this report represents an opportunity for Puerto Rico to join the discussion on generosity, particularly in the context of Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition, it will make it possible to promote academic research based on concrete data.” He also expressed his gratitude to Omar Álvarez González, the Institute's statistical project assistant, for his collaboration in the development of the report.

“In many jurisdictions around the world, there are efforts to measure and document the ecosystem of generosity. In Puerto Rico, there is still little statistical information on this topic, so this report represents an important step in generating comparable data and bringing a new dimension to the economic and social analysis of Puerto Rico,” said Dr. Orville M. Disdier Flores, executive director of the Institute of Statistics.

Disdier also mentioned that “non-profit organizations and philanthropy are an important part of the social and economic fabric of Puerto Rico, and having official statistics on generosity allows us to better understand how people support community, educational, cultural and health causes, among others. That is why we welcomed the collaboration proposed by Dr. Luz Mairym López-Rodríguez to develop this analysis.”

The report also includes interactive graphics and maps that allow us to visualize trends and compare the behavior of deductions for donations over time. Although the total amount of donations increased, the study points out that the number of taxpayers who claimed deductions for donations showed a reduction during the period analyzed, suggesting that the average contributions claimed are higher than a decade ago.

The report is available at: Generosity Report 2015-2023.

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