The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics has joined forces with the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Puerto Rico Planning Board to continue developing a project to estimate the island’s gross domestic product. To move the initiative forward, the Institute’s Interim Executive Director Orville Disdier traveled to the BEA’s Washington D.C.’s offices last week to […]
About 33% of Puerto Rico’s population aged 18 and older are at risk of facing food insecurity, according to the findings of the Puerto Rico Food Security Survey released by the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics. Similarly, 21.7% of those interviewed said in the 12 months prior to the study, there were times when they […]
Looking to expand the statistical information on a number of topics and educate about statistics and tools available to manage and access them, the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics is hosting a series of workshops and webinars. While the workshops requiring attendance target mainly government employees and representatives of non-governmental entities responsible for keeping statistics […]