R. of C. No. 654

Memorials
IEPR
04 March 2026

Date: March 5, 2014

To order the Government Commission and the Commission on Socio-Economic Development and Planning of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to conduct an exhaustive investigation into the collection and methodology used by the agencies of the Executive Branch in relation to statistical information of public interest, with special emphasis on the efforts and duties of the Planning Board and the Statistics Institute; to examine the methods of updating and reliability of the statistics collected by governmental entities; and evaluate the resources available for State statistical management and the legal framework that affects it, in order to identify needs, and to know, if necessary, to make any adjustments or amendments that promote the relevance, objectivity and correctness of information based on statistical data; and for other related purposes.

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