Management and Coordination of the Philippine Statistical System

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Management and Coordination of the Philippine
Statistical System
By

• ROMEO S. RECIDE
• Director
• Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
• Philippines

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• PSS is highly decentralized.....
• organizations involved in statistics were born
  out of the needs for
• -- evidence-based planning and decision-making
  across various administrative units in the
  government bureaucracy at national and
  sub-national levels

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• PSS is highly decentralized .....
• organizations with different goals and
  sub-goals
• National Statistics Office
• Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
• Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics
• Government Departments
• Statistical Research and Training Center
• Academe

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• PSS is highly decentralized .....
• And thus . . .
• need for coordination to
• -- minimize duplication
• -- promote coherence efficiency
• in the conduct of statistical activities

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• The National Statistical Coordination Board
  (NSCB)....
• EO 121 tasked the NCSB as the agency responsible
  for horizontal coordination with the various
  statistical organizations within the national
  governments administrative hierarchy, and
• EO 135 mandated the NSCB to be responsible for
  vertical coordination within the local
  statistical systems.

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Powers and Functions of NSCB

• Prescribe uniform standards and classification
  systems in government statistics

• 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

• Establish appropriate mechanisms for statistical
  coordination at the regional, provincial and city
  levels

• Approve the Philippine Statistical Development
  Program

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• Allocate statistical responsibilities among
  government agencies by designating the statistics
  to be collected by them, including their
  periodicity and content

• Review budgetary proposals involving statistical
  operations and submit an integrated budget for
  the PSS to the Department of Budget and
  Management (DBM)

• Review and clear, prior to release, all funds for
  statistical operations

• Develop, prescribe, and maintain appropriate
  frameworks for the improvement of statistical
  coordination and

• Prescribe uniform standards and classification
  systems in government statistics.

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Structure of the NSCB (Board)....

• Composed of undersecretaries of 20 different
  Departments, heads of National Statistics Office
  and Statistical Research and Training Centers and
  Secretary General of NSCB Technical Staff

• With Representatives from private sector and
  Local Government Units (
  thru their organizations)

• Chaired by the Director-General of NEDA
• Vice Chaired by Undersecretary of DBM

• The NSCB meets every quarter.

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Under EO 121, NSCB Technical Staff is tasked to
. . . - provide technical and secretariat
support to the NSCB - serve as the
statistical clearing house and liaison for
international statistical matters -
perform other functions as may be assigned by the
NSCB and as may be necessary to carry out the
purposes of Executive Order 121 The NSCB
Technical Staff . . . - headed by a
Secretary-General who is an ex- officio member of
the NSCB
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Mechanisms for statistical coordination.....

• The Standards and Classification Systems
• e.g.,
• Philippine Standard Occupation Classification
  (PSOC) Philippine Standard Commodity
  Classification (PSCC) Philippine Standard
  Industrial Classification (PSIC) and Philippine
  Standard Geographic Code (PSGC)

• The Statistical Survey Review and Clearance
  System (SSRCS) a process thru which all surveys
  and censuses to be conducted are reviewed and
  approved before they can be conducted.

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Mechanisms for statistical coordination.....

• The Policy Resolutions of the NSCB a
  compilation of policy issuances of the NSCB as
  the highest policy-making body on statistical
  matters

• The Philippine Statistical Development Program
  a five-year rolling blueprint of statistical
  activities to be undertaken by the PSS that
  articulates the data requirements of the
  Philippine Medium-Term Development Plan

• The System of Designated Statistics (SDS) a
  mechanism laid out thru EO 352 that lists the
  most critical and essential statistical
  activities and statistics that should be
  generated by the PSS

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Mechanisms for statistical coordination.....

• The Interagency Committees and Technical Working
  Groups to address specific/sectoral statistical
  issues with representation from concerned groups,
  including the academe and the private sector

• The Statistical Frameworks frameworks and
  indicator systems such as the System of National
  Accounts (SNA), Statistical Indicators on
  Philippine Development (StatDev)

• The Subnational Statistical Coordination
  Committees multi-sectoral committees formed at
  the subnational level to provide direction in the
  development of subnational statistical systems
  with guidance from policy issuances of the NSCB

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Mechanisms for statistical coordination.....

• The Government Statistics Accessibility Program
  (GSAP) to promote best practices in information
  dissemination
• -- dissemination of Advance Release Calendars,
• -- development and maintenance of metadata on
  PSS products

• The conduct of statistical advocacy activities
• e.g.
• -- National Statistics Month (every
  October) and
• -- National Convention on Statistics
  (held every three years)

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As a coordination tool..... - the NSCB
Technical Staff is engaged in the
compilation of the national accounts - the
NSCB Technical Staff is also undertaking the
estimation of poverty statistics and - both
the national accounts and poverty statistics are
designated statistics.
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Issues regarding coordination of the PSS

• representation and participation in the
  Board

• presence of NSCB Technical Staff only in 10
  out of 16 regions

• lack of clear guidelines in managing the
  processes and outputs of IACs, TCs, TFs

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Recent developments..... - the NSCB created
a Special Committee to review the PSS -
the Special Committee has submitted its
recommendations in the form of draft statistics
legislation and - draft bills are being
debated in the Senate and Lower House of
Congress. Reorganization with creation of a
Statistical Advisory Council.
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