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Dr. Mario Marazzi-Santiago Instituto de EstadísticasExecutive Director February 4, 2015
Inventory of StatisticsDatabases http://api.estadisticas.gobierno.pr/ Web interfacesSpecial publicationsVirtual Library of Special StudiesE-mail Subscription SystemSchedule of Release [email protected]
Interdisciplinary team of experts in statistics in a diversity of fields: Economics, Health, Education, Criminal Justice, Planning, Geography, amongst others.
Work with public entities in Puerto Rico to make sure they have the necessary data to justify their grant applications for federal funding.
American FactFinder (del U.S. Census Bureau) now offers data tables for the Puerto Rico Community Survey in ESPAÑOL.
http://factfinder.census.gov
School Lunch Programs (Comedores escolares): Advised the Puerto Rico Department of
Education on the implications of newly released data on the cost of living in Puerto Rico to potentially justify increases in reimbursement rates for the “bandeja escolar”.
The first publication of the Cost-of-Living Index showed that supermarket items in Puerto Rico were 23 percent higher than the average cost in the United States.
Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Provided Medicare with up-to-date malpractice
premium information from the Puerto Rico Office of the Insurance Commissioner to increase rates paid to doctors in Puerto Rico.
the Malpractice Geographic Practice Cost Index
increased 18 percent. Providing technical assistance on a potential
housing subsidy bias in the formulas used by Medicare to compensate doctors in Puerto Rico.
