Place In Puerto Rico
Census 2000 Glossary of Basic Geographic and Related Terms
In addition to states establishing new incorporated places, these entities can be changed by legal action that results in some being disincorporated, merged, or renamed. CDPs may be dropped from the census because their area was included within newly incorporated places or they were annexed, in whole or substantial part, to existing incorporated places; also, some were merged, renamed, or dropped by the local and tribal governments that reviewed the CDPs for Census 2000. ... [Read More]
Welcome to the Puerto Rico Environment
The Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Area (AFWTA) on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico , is a Superfund site that includes land areas, waters and cays in and around the islands of Vieques and Culebra impacted by 100 years of military training operations, largely by the U.S. Navy. Due to these activities, some land and water may be contaminated with mercury, lead, copper, magnesium, lithium, perchlorate, TNT, napalm, depleted uranium, PCBs, solvents, and pesticides. ... "These winners are environmental trail blazers who make our world a better place," said Acting Regional Administrator Callahan. "By being leaders and making local changes, the award recipients demonstrate that we can all have a positive impact on the health of our nation's air, land and water." ... [Read More]
Complete of Tables for Puerto Rico Census of Agriculture
Table 6-8 : Inventory and Value of Machinery, Equipment, Land, Buildings, and Facilities on the Place: 1998 and 1993 ... NOTE:These documents are in Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF). ... [Read More]
Puerto Rico and the Island Areas
Maintained By: Information & Research Services Internet Staff (Population Division) Created: August 9, 1999 ... 1990 Census of Population and Housing, CH-1-53, "General HousingCharacteristics," Puerto Rico. ... Census of Population and Housing Listingsor CPH-Ls ... [Read More]
Census 2000 data for Puerto Rico
Summary File 3 consists of 813 detailed tables of Census 2000 social, economic and housing characteristics compiled from a sample of approximately 19 million housing units (about 1 in 6 households) that received the Census 2000 long-form questionnaire. Fifty-one tables are repeated for nine major race and Hispanic or Latino groups: White alone; Black or African American alone; American Indian and Alaska Native alone; Asian alone; Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone; Some other race alone; Two or more races; Hispanic or Latino; and White alone, not Hispanic or Latino. ... [Read More]
Puerto Rico State Information Page
The Puerto Rico Occupational Safety and Health Administration (PR OSHA), initiated operations in 1978, after the enactment of Act No. 16 of 1975, Occupational Safety and Health Act of Puerto Rico. The purpose of the Act is to guarantee safe and healthful working conditions for each employee in Puerto Rico authorizing the Secretary of Labor to prescribe and enforce the safety and health standards, rules and regulations developed or adopted; by assisting and encouraging employers and employees in their efforts to guarantee safe and healthful working conditions; by providing for scientific research, information, education and training and the development of statistic in the field of occupational safety and health. ... [Read More]
ECONOMIC CENSUS OF PUERTO RICO
The census covers the following sectors (as defined by NAICS): Mining, Utilities, Construction, Manufacturing; Wholesale and Retail Trades, Transportation and Warehousing, Information; Finance and Insurance; Real Estate and Rental and Leasing; Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Administrative and Support, Waste Management and Remediation Services; Educational Services; Health Care and Social Assistance; Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation; Accommodation and Food Services; and Other Services (except Public Administration). This scope is equivalent to that of the stateside economic census. Prior censuses were conducted based on the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. CONTENT ... [Read More]
Resources for Federal Contractors
Click on "Access to all tables and maps in American FactFinder" (first link on the web page). ... OFCCP has created a separate compilation of summary data tables for Puerto Rico from the Census 2000 Summary File 4 data because the access to the geographic format is slightly different for Puerto Rico than the State, County, and Place data tables presented on the Census Bureau's web site for the United States. The tables contain 472 occupational groups, subgroups, and occupation information. ... [Read More]
Census 2000 Gazetteer Files
In response to user requests, we created a Census 2000 gazetteer of counties, county subdivisions (MCDs/CCDs), places and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) for the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These files allow you locate a county, county subdivision, incorporated place or Census Designated Place (CDP) by name without having to know the Latitude/Longitude coordinates. These files contained on this Web page were extracted from the Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF1) DVD with Software Enhancement (Product Id: V1-D00-S1S1-08-US1). For more information about this product refer to the Census Bureau's online catalog, accessible from the Census Bureau Home page . ... [Read More]
Economic Census of Puerto Rico and the the Island Areas
Every 5 years, currently taken for years ending in "2" and "7" coinciding with the U.S. economic censuses. The five year cycle began in 1949. A census of manufactures was taken in 1909 and continued at 10-year intervals through 1949 except for 1929. Retail trade, wholesale trade, and service industries censuses were added in 1939. Construction industries was added in 1967. Reported data are for activity taking place throughout the census year. ... The Wholesale Trade, Retail Trade, and Service Industries report is published in two books. Book one, the Geographic Area Statistics, contains general statistics for industry groups by the municipio and commercial region level. Book two, the Subject Series, contains data on commodity line sales by kind-of-business, and merchandise line sales by kind-of-business. . ... [Read More]
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