https://media.blubrry.com/dollarsandsensenewsismybusines/newsismybusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NIMB-Podcast-2020-Instituto-Estadisticas_mixdown.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSNewly confirmed Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Executive Director Orville Disdier sat down with Dollars and Sense to discuss the agency’s pipeline of projects for this year, including working alongside the U.S. Census for this year’s survey on the island, and working aggressively to shore […]
U.S. Census Bureau surveyors will begin visiting Puerto Rico homes starting Mar. 15, inviting residents to participate in the assessment that takes place every 10 years, said Jeff Behler, director of the U.S. Census Bureau’s New York Regional Office. During a joint press conference with the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, he said during the […]
Six months after opening the process to select an executive director the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics has appointed Orville M. Disdier as executive director of that entity, promoting him from the interim position he held for more than a year. The announcement was made by Statistics Institute Board Chair Arnaldo Cruz, who said he […]
Puerto Rico’s population increased by 340 people (0.0%) between 2018 and 2019 after several years of annual population decline, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s national and state population estimates. The most recent annual population estimates for Puerto Rico confirmed the number of local residents at 3,193,694 as of July 1, 2019. This slight increase […]
The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, in collaboration with the United Nations Foundation, (UNA-USA Puerto Rico) have joined forces to launch a website to make it possible for Puerto Rico to have indicators that measure its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved by the United Nations. Ricardo Arzuaga-Chaves, Executive director of UNA-USA Puerto Rico, explained that […]
During calendar year 2018, it was estimated that about 113,000 people migrated to other jurisdictions in the United States, in net terms, according to the latest data from the American Community Survey released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Migration from Puerto Rico to the mainland United States increased by 36.9% between 2017 and 2018, […]
During calendar year 2017, an estimated 2.4% of Puerto Rico’s population migrated to other jurisdictions in the United States, resulting in about 77,000in net terms, according to the Migrant Profile report published by the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics. The report presents a snapshot of Puerto Rico’s migratory movement during the 2017 calendar year. […]
The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics is seeking an injunction and declaratory judgment from the San Juan Superior Court challenging the validity of a number of board appointments Gov. Ricardo Rosselló made in late November 2018. The appointments casts doubt on the Institute’s independent criteria and the knowledge and expertise required for Board members to […]
The Puerto Rico Science Policy Action Network (PR-SPAN) and CienciaPR, the largest network of Puerto Rican scientists in the world, is echoing the concerns expressed by the American Statistical Association and the Association of Economists of Puerto Rico about recent appointments to the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics and how […]
The Board of Directors of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics announced the unanimous election of Arnaldo Cruz, co-founder of Open Puerto Rico and Director of Research and Analytics Foundation for Puerto Rico, as chairman of the body.
The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics filed a motion at the San Juan Superior Court reiterating its request for declaratory judgment and injunction requested following the legal controversy that arose last summer, related to the composition of its Board, which has not yet been resolved.
We appreciate the statement of the Oversight Board on the desirability that the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics is maintained as a public, independent and separate instrumentality from the government of Puerto Rico.
The Puerto Rico Private Sector Coalition, which represents more than 30 local professional organizations, on Monday argued that given the island’s circumstances post-Hurricane María and the potential impact of government measures, it is “critical” to have a body that ensures the independence and transparency of metrics and statistics to provide complete, reliable, and fast statistics.
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