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PHILIPPINES
Inception Meeting
Technical Advisory Group on Social Statistics
September 29-30, 2011
System of collecting social statistics
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The Philippines has a decentralized system. It is
composed of a
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policy-making body
data producers
data users
research and training institutions
data providers
government-wide system of providing statistical
information and services to the public.
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System of collecting social statistics
Institutional Framework
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System of collecting social statistics
Major Statistical Agencies
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Statistics Law ?
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No statistics law
Executive Order 121, Reorganizing and
Strengthening the Philippine Statistical System
(PSS) and for Other Purposes (30 January 1987).
The law, among others, created the NSCB and
SRTC and renamed the National Census and
Statistics Office to NSO.
The NSO, the major data producer in government,
was created in 1935 (CA No. 591)
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Statistics Law ?
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NSO reorganized through different government
issuances through the years with the last under EO
No. 5 (1998)
Census Law mandates NSO to take censuses of
population and housing every ten years, or in years
ending with “0” (1980).
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Bases of social statistics data
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combination of administrative and survey/census
data.
official social statistics are predominantly from
surveys and censuses.
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Statistical Master Plan and the Social
Sector
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Philippine version of the National Strategies for the
Development of Statistics is Philippine Statistical
Development Program (PSDP)
PSDP now on its eighth episode (since 1976)
prepared by an interagency collaboration within the
PSS under the NSCB
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Statistical Master Plan and the Social
Sector
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PSDP is presently being updated to cover the years
2011-2017
23 chapters including the 8 of the chapters that are
devoted on various social sectors:
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Poverty and Income Statistics
Labor and Productivity Statistics
Education and Culture Statistics
Health and Nutrition Statistics
Population and Housing Statistics
Social Protection Statistics
Statistics on Gender and Development and Children
Peace and Security Statistics
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Statistical Master Plan and the Social
Sector
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frameworks of specific sectoral concerns
Example: gender statistics is based on internationallyagreed frameworks while reflecting the sectoral
needs/concerns of the Philippines.
framework of gender statistics in the Philippines outlined
in the PSDP is consistent with the Beijing Platform for
Action, the Philippine Plan for Gender and Development,
Core Gender and Development Indicators System
approved by the NSCB Executive Board
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On Gender Statistics
On gender-based violence:
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Survey-based prevalence of gender-based violence was
collected for the first time in the 2008 National
Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS), through the
Women’s Safety Module.
Other administrative-based data on reported cases of
violence against women is available from the Philippine
National Police; number of cases served on violence
against women is available from the Department of
Social Welfare and Development.
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On Gender Statistics
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On time-use statistics:
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To date, a National Time Use Survey has not been
undertaken in the Philippines.
In 2000, a Pilot Time Use Survey (TUS) was conducted
by the National Statistics Office in two barangays (village)
in the country.
Using the results of the pilot TUS as well as data from
other sources, the NSCB generated estimates of GDP
and GNP by sex and “adjusted GDP and GNP” by sex
(i.e., accounting for unpaid house work of women and
men).
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On Gender Statistics
On time-use statistics:
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To date, a National Time Use Survey has not been
undertaken in the Philippines.
In 2000, a Pilot Time Use Survey (TUS) was conducted
by the National Statistics Office in two barangays (village)
in the country.
Using the results of the pilot TUS as well as data from
other sources, the NSCB generated estimates of GDP
and GNP by sex and “adjusted GDP and GNP” by sex
(i.e., accounting for unpaid house work of women and
men).
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On International Classifications
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Philippine Central Product Classification (PCPC) – standard
classification of goods and services in the Philippines, including
tangible assets based on their physical properties and intrinsic
nature as well as industrial origin
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Philippine Classification of Individual Consumption According to
Purpose (PCOICOP) - a detailed classification of individual
consumption expenditures on goods and services incurred by the
three institutional sectors of the 1993 and 2008 System of
National Accounts
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Philippine Standard Classification of Education (PSCEd) - a
detailed classification of all educational levels in the Philippine
Educational System.
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On International Classifications
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Philippine Standard Commodity Classification (PSCC) - a
detailed classification of all commodities that enter the
Philippine trade
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Philippine Standard Occupational Classification (PSOC) - a
classification of the different occupations of the working
population, including the military workforce of the country
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Philippine Standard Geographic Classification (PSGC) - a
classification and coding of the geographical-political
subdivisions of the country, such as the region, the province,
the municipality/city and the barangay
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Philippine Standard Industrial Classification (PSIC) - a
classification of all economic activities obtaining in the country
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