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Critical Element for a Successful Grant Proposal

Dr. Mario Marazzi-Santiago, Executive Director at Instituto de Estadísticas, provides critical statistical support for grant applications through accessible data inventories, databases, and web interfaces. The interdisciplinary team offers expertise in economics, health, education, and more to ensure public entities in Puerto Rico have the necessary data for federal funding. Services include technical assistance on formulas for programs like School Lunch and Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, aiding in justifying reimbursement rate increases and addressing biases in compensation metrics. Stay informed with a Virtual Library of Special Studies and E-mail Subscription System.

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Critical Element for a Successful Grant Proposal

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  1. Dr. Mario Marazzi-Santiago Instituto de Estadísticas Executive Director February 4, 2015 Critical Element for a Successful Grant Proposal

  2. STATISTICS!

  3. Accessibility • Inventory of Statistics • Databases • http://api.estadisticas.gobierno.pr/ • Web interfaces • Special publications • Virtual Library of Special Studies • E-mail Subscription System • Schedule of Release Dates • preguntas@estadisticas.gobierno.pr

  4. Staff • 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.

  5. ANNOUNCEMENT • American FactFinder (del U.S. Census Bureau) now offers data tables for the Puerto Rico Community Survey in ESPAÑOL. http://factfinder.census.gov

  6. American FactFinder

  7. American FactFinder

  8. WHAT ABOUT FORMULAS?

  9. Technical assistance on formulas • 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.

  10. Technical assistance on formulas • 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.

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