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The workshops are aimed at helping government officials and the general public.
Consumer spending in Puerto Rico contracted by nearly 9% from 2012 to 2017, when the island’s population also consistently declined, according to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. Consumer spending — which contracted by an average of 1.8% annually during the period — measures the goods and services purchased […]
This effort complements the implementation of Department of Economic Development and Commerce Reorganization Act.
The U.S. General Accountability Office issued a report recommending that several U.S. agencies work to include Puerto Rico in more federal economic and labor data reporting, to make it easier to assess the commonwealth’s true problems.
Companies doing business in Puerto Rico will soon be receiving questionnaires to fill out for the Puerto Rico 2017 Economic Census, the main source of data on the structure and functioning of the island’s economy.
More than five months after Hurricane María made its devastating landfall on Puerto Rico, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced that Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University will lead a study on the review of deaths associated with the deadly storm.
The Financial Oversight and Management Board held Thursday the first of three listening sessions to inform the process for revising the certified Fiscal Plans of the government of Puerto Rico and its agencies.
The U.S. Census Bureau has updated its demographic projections for Puerto Rico, predicting that the island’s population will be at 2.98 million by 2025, or 25 years earlier than its original projection, the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics revealed.
The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics offered details of the new methodology used by the Puerto Rico Trade & Export Company to estimate the value of the island's retail sales starting in October 2016.
U.S. Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) hosted Tuesday a panel of experts and other members of Congress for a roundtable discussion on unlocking the keys to stimulating economic growth in Puerto Rico.
The Committee urged the Census Bureau to include all American citizens, including those residing in Puerto Rico and other territories, in their estimates of the resident population and other national statistics.
On a non-seasonally adjusted basis (NSA), the Purchasing Managers Index for Puerto Rico’s manufacturing sector edged down to 49.1 in November, suggesting a contraction in the sector with respect to the previous month.
A study released by the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute showed that Research & Development investments during Fiscal 2015 were $443.3 million, or to 0.43 percent of the island’s GDP. This represents a slight 1.3 percent drop compared to Fiscal 2013.
The U.S. Census Bureau announced Thursday its participation in the upcoming two-day Hackathon, slated for Oct. 8-9, to share with participants how its statistics systems work.
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