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OVERVIEW OF THE
PHILIPPINE STATISTICAL SYSTEM NATIONAL
STATISTICAL COORDINATION BOARD April 8, 2002
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Outline

• Introduction
• Structure
• Coordination of the System
• Forms and Channels of Dissemination
• Statistical and Technical Services
• Products

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What is the Philippine Statistical System?

• the government-wide system of providing
  statistical information and services to the
  public
• aims to provide timely, accurate and useful
  statistics for the government and the public,
  especially for planning and decision-making

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Structure

• decentralized set-up
• consists of the statistical organizations at all
  administrative levels, the personnel therein and
  the national statistical program, as defined in
  Executive Order No. 121

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Structure

• Organizations include
• a policy-making and coordinating body (NSCB)
• a statistical research and training center
  (SRTC)
• a single general purpose statistical agency
  (NSO)
• Other major statistical agencies (BAS and BLES)
• Other data-producing agencies

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Structure

• Organizations (continued)
• all the departments, bureaus, offices, agencies
  and instrumentalities of the NG and LG and GOCCs
  and their subsidiaries that are engaged in
  statistical activities either as their primary
  functions or part of their administrative or
  regulatory functions.

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Coordination of the System
The NSCB being the policy-making and coordinating
body on statistical matters in the Philippines
coordinates the process of data generation and
dissemination in the PSS.
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Mechanisms

• Formulation of the Philippine Statistical
  Development Program (PSDP)
• System of Designated Statistics
• Budget Review and Prioritization
• Survey Review and Clearance System
• Standards and Classification Systems

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Mechanisms

• Inter-Agency Coordination
• Development and Maintenance of Statistical
  Frameworks and Multi-Sectoral Indicator Systems
• Joint PSS Programs
• Users' Forum
• Advocacy Activities (e.g. NCS, NSM, etc.)

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Forms and Channels of Dissemination

• In Print and Electronic Media
• Statistics Libraries/Corners
• Statistics on the Internet
• Statistics in Interactive Multi-Media

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Statistical and Technical Services

• Training on Statistics
• Survey Design Advisory Services
• Consultancy on Statistical Techniques

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Products

• The PSS provides most of the statistical
  information needed by government policy-makers on
  various sectors and areas of concern.
• The private sector also makes use of statistical
  information for its own purposes.

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Products

• Statistics including
• Censuses
• Surveys
• Administrative Data Systems
• Derived Data Systems
• Statistical Indicators
• Metadata

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NSCB CY 2002
National Statistical Coordination Board
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Legal basis
Executive Order 121 Reorganizing the Philippine
Statistical System and for other purposes

• issued on January 30, 1987
• created the NSCB as the highestpolicy-making and
  coordinating body on statistical matters in the
  country

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Goals

• To promote the
• independence,
• objectivity,
• integrity,
• relevance,
• responsiveness,
• of the Philippine Statistical System

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Objective

• To achieve the development of
• an orderly statistical system
• capable of providing
• timely
• accurate
• relevant
• useful
• STATISTICS

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Mandate (Powers and Functions) per EO 121

• Promote and maintain an efficient statistical
  system in the government
• Formulate policies on all matters relating to
  government statistical operations
• Recommend executive and legislative measures to
  enhance the development and efficiency of the
  system, including the internal structure of
  statistical agencies

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Mandate (Powers and Functions) per EO 121

• Establish appropriate mechanisms for statistical
  coordination at the regional, provincial and city
  levels
• Approve the Philippine Statistical Development
  Program
• Allocate statistical responsibilities among
  government agencies by designating the statistics
  to be collected by them, including their
  periodicity and content

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Mandate (Powers and Functions) per EO 121

• Review budgetary proposals involving statistical
  operations and submit an integrated budget for
  the PSS to the DBM
• Review and clear, prior to release, all funds for
  statistical operations

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Mandate per EO 121 continued

• Develop, prescribe and maintain appropriate
  framework for the improvement of statistical
  coordination
• Prescribe uniform standards and classification
  systems in government statistics.

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Executive Board

• Chairman NEDA Director-General
• Vice-Chairman DBM Undersecretary
• Members
• Undersecretaries of other departments
• Deputy Governor, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
• Administrator, National Statistics Office
• Executive Director, SRTC
• Governor or Mayor
• Private Sector Representative
• NSCB Secretary General

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Technical Staff
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Function of the Technical Staff

• The NSCB has a Technical Staff which performs the
  following functions
• Provide technical and secretarial support to the
  NSCB
• Serve as the statistical clearing house and
  liaison for
• international statistical matters and
• Perform other functions as may be assigned by the
• NSCB and as may be necessary to carry out the
• purposes of Executive Order No. 121, series of
  1987,
• which created the NSCB.
• The Technical Staff is headed by a Secretary
  General, with the rank of Undersecretary, and
  assisted by an Assistant Secretary General, with
  the rank of Assistant Secretary

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NSCB CY 2002
Products and Services
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Products

• Statistical policies
• Statistical programs
• 1999-2004 Philippine Statistical Development
  Program (Presidential Proclamation No. 248)
• Government Statistics Accessibility Program
• National Accounts of the Philippines (NAP)
• Quarterly and annual GNP/GDP by industry and
  expenditure shares
• Gross regional domestic product/expenditure
• Seasonally-adjusted GDP

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Products

• Other statistical frameworks and indicators
• Philippine poverty statistics
• Human development index
• Input-Output tables
• Leading economic index
• Philippine Economic-Environment and Natural
  Resources Accounts Food balance sheet
• Philippine National Health Accounts
• Gender statistics
• Philippine Framework on the Development of
  Environment Statistics
• Satellite Accounts on Tourism
• Quarterly Economic Indices
• Foreign Direct Investment statistics

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Products

• Statistical standards and classification systems
• Statistical Survey Review and Clearance System
• System of Designated Statistics (per EO 352)
• General Standards on Statistical Information
  Dissemination
• Statistical budget review system
• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• Philippine Central Product Classification
• Philippine Standard Industrial Classification
• Philippine Standard Occupational Classification
• Philippine Classification on Education
• Statistical standards for local government units
  (EO 135)

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Products

• Statistical publications
• Philippine Statistics in CD-ROM (2000 Gawad
  Florendo award for Most Outstanding Information
  Tool Using Electronic Media)
• Philippine Statistical Yearbook
• National Accounts of the Philippines
• Regional Social and Economic Trends
• Economic Indicators
• Women and Men in the Philippines
• Countryside in Figures
• Profile of Censuses and Surveys

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Services

• National Statistical Information Center
• a one-stop center for statistical information
• 1995 Gawad Oscar Florendo as Best Information
  Program
• Statistics inquiry services
• Statistical library services
• Bookshop
• Technical services
• Web-based services (www.nscb.gov.ph)
• 1999 Gawad Oscar Florendo for Best Information
  Tool and 1998 and 1999 Philippine Webby Award for
  the Most Outstanding Government Website
• i-stats, NSCBs online statistical database
  subscription service

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Services

• Statistical coordination services at the
  subnational levels
• implementation and monitoring of statistical
  mechanisms including EO 135
• technical and secretariat services to
  regional/local statistical coordination
  committees
• Coordination services for IACs/TCs/ TWGs/TFs on
  statistical concerns
• sectoral and/or subject-matter committees of
  experts and practitioners

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Services

• Statistical advocacy
• National Statistics Month
• National Convention on Statistics
• 8th National Convention on Statistics on 1-2
  October 2001 at the Westin Philippine Plaza
• Data user-producer fora and seminars
• Statistical information sheets
• International affairs
• Liaison services for international data requests
• Hosting/coordination of international conferences
  on statistical matters
• ASEAN Workshop on Development Indicators on 1-5
  October 2001 at the Westin Philippine Plaza

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Thrusts, FY 2002

• Effective system-wide programs, policies,
  measures, standards and projects
• Integrated statistical information systems to
  provide relevant and accessible information and
  services
• Strengthened local statistical systems

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Thrusts, FY 2002

• Application of IT to enhance institutional
  capacity and product / service quality
• Corporate culture of excellence, teamwork and
  entrepreneurial spirit and
• Service to and cooperation with the international
  community.

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