Analysis of Cultural Data in Puerto Rico

The aim of this paper is showing up and analyzing main data metrics used by Puerto Rico to measure cultural activities. Culturehas been transformed from a national and symbolic vector to an economic game-changer agent. Government agencies around the world involving culturalpolicies worked out adata system to visualize its capital value and social impact.Given the importanceto fit in this trend Puerto Rico faces a remarkable challenge aspublic agenciesappear with many flawson providinginformation,providejust a handful datareports on cultural activities,haveoverlyrelied in U.S dataand lack of a propersystemfor measuringculturaland creative activitiesfrom a broader view. In addition,we will examinecurrent data measurements for culture around Puerto Rico as well intendsto show a globally recognized methodological framework in order to develop a Cultural Satellite Account. Besides,it shows a public policy concern about a notoriously dearthof transparency in several agencies besides a limited accessibility for handing out documents.Subsequently there isa comparison between three countries recognized by building metricsand statistical tools to measure creative and cultural economic activity.