April 23, 2020: The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute reported that it has already completed the update of its COVID-19 Indicator Platform in Puerto Rico, after receiving the revised data from the Department of Health. The platform includes graphic representations based on information from single positive cases, using molecular tests, reported since March 9 and purified by that agency, said the executive director of the Institute, Dr. Orville M. Disdier.
The platform has graphs of positive cases, epidemic curve based on molecular tests, daily growth factor based on the date of the molecular test, demographic characteristics and cases by municipality.
“The data provided by the platform will serve as a basis for researchers to carry out their own statistical analysis and generate projections, and that the government can take the actions required to control infections. However, it is important to clarify that the graphs do not reflect all the unique cases, because, as recognized by the Department of Health, there were flaws in the methodology and data collection,” said Disdier.
As he noted, the Department of Health's commitment is to continue sending them daily purified data so that the Institute continues to update the graphics.
“As we have said before this pandemic was declared, at the Institute of Statistics we are in the best position to do everything in our power and in accordance with what the law empowers us, to contribute to transparency in the dissemination of data about this virus,” he said.
The COVID-19 Indicator Platform can be accessed through the following link: Covid-19
To learn more about the Institute of Statistics, you can access the website: www.estadisticas.pr.gov. On social media through Facebook (@estadisticas .pr), Twitter (@EstadisticasPR) and LinkedIn (Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico) accounts.
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Contact: Idia M. Martinez, Lic. R-28, 787-603-3200, imartinez@upfrontpr.net
DISRUPTED THE MOVEMENT OF PASSENGERS AFTER HURRICANES
Federal data on passenger departures and arrivals on domestic flights confirm this
San Juan, PR, December 19, 2017 — Recently, the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) published the statistics on air traffic in the United States and Puerto Rico, known as Air Carrier Statistics, for the month of September 2017. These data are provided by airlines to BTS on a monthly basis and represent the first official data published by the federal Government on the movement of air passengers following the passage of hurricanes Irma and María over Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute (Institute) presents this brief summary of several findings from this disclosure:
1) Compared to September 2016, the number of air passengers arriving in Puerto Rico dropped by 45 percent, from 238 thousand passengers to only 131 thousand. In the same way, passenger departures from Puerto Rico fell from 254,000 passengers to 173,000 for a decrease of 32 percent.
2) All major destinations and origins of flights from Puerto Rico were affected. The states that experienced the largest percentage reductions in passenger arrivals from Puerto Rico were: Florida, Connecticut, Texas, Georgia, and Illinois. The states with the largest percentage reductions in passenger departures to Puerto Rico were: Florida, Illinois, Connecticut, Texas and Maryland.
3) In 2016, 88,000 net people left Puerto Rico on domestic flights. In recent months, this figure had shown signs of diminishing, falling to almost 60,000 net passengers. With the data just released, this number once again expanded to 93,000 passengers for the 12-month period between October 2016 and September 2017.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Air Carrier Statistics, T-100 Domestic Segment (U.S. Carriers).
Source: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Air Carrier Statistics, T-100 Domestic Segment (U.S. Carriers).
Note: Flights within Puerto Rico (intra-island) are excluded. States that received less than a thousand passengers from Puerto Rico in September 2016 are excluded, so the sum of the states is slightly different from the total reported in the table.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Air Carrier Statistics, T-100 Domestic Segment (U.S. Carriers).
Regarding the movement of passengers, Alberto L. Velázquez-Estrada, manager of Statistical Projects at the Institute, said: “The net movement of passengers in the last 12 months allows us to approximate the behavior of the migratory trend, which in itself is volatile. Data released as of September 2017 are beginning to validate the repercussions after the natural event. First, a decline in air passenger flow due to airport interruptions and second, an increase in more people leaving than returning to the island. In other words, the figure for September 2017 predicts a new increase in emigration, which in itself has fluctuated for more than a decade at high values compared to the size of the population of Puerto Rico.”
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 statistics.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. For more information you can visit our website: www.estadisticas.pr. 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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