EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 135
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 135 - PROVIDING
FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A WELL-COORDINATED LOCAL LEVEL STATISTICAL
SYSTEM
WHEREAS, the reliability,
credibility, and comparability of data have significant bearing on
policy and decision-making of the National Government and Local
Government Units;
WHEREAS, the Philippine Statistical System (PSS) as defined in
Executive Order No. 121, series of 1987, consist of a policy-making and
coordinating body, a statistical research and training center, a
general purpose statistical agency, and all departments, bureaus,
offices, agencies, and instrumentalities of the national and local
governments and all government-owned and controlled corporations and
their subsidiaries that are engaged in statistical activities either as
their primary function or as part of their administrative and
regulatory functions;
WHEREAS, the coverage of the PSS cuts across all geographic subdivision
in order to ensure the proper determination of the over-all picture of
the country;
WHEREAS, a new Local Government Code was signed into law on October 10,
1991;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the aforesaid code, powers and functions for the
delivery of basic services were developed to the local government
units;
WHEREAS, inherent in the devolution of basic powers and functions would
be the devolution of the generation of statistics for planning and
decision-making;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:
Section 1. A well-coordinated statistical system at
the local level that is: (1) responsive to planning and monitoring
requirements at the local level, and (2) capable of producing
statistics which can be integrated and harmonized with statistics being
produced at the national level, shall be established.
Sec. 2. Overall Coordination of Statistical
Matters. —
(a)
The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) shall, by virtue of
its mandate under EO 121, remain as the central policy-making and
coordinating body on all statistical matters at the national and local
levels. All statistical policies formulated by the NSCB shall be
implemented by all concerned agencies of the government, including the
local government units.
(b) In each
Region, the Regional Statistical Coordination Committee (RSCC), which
has been created by the NSCB, shall serve as the link between the NSCB
and the local government units on statistical matters. Thus, all
statistical activities of the LGUs shall be planned and implemented in
coordination with the RSCCs. The NSCB shall establish its Regional
Statistical Coordination Units (RSCUs) in all regions to serve as the
secretariat of the RSCCs.
(c) To foster
an efficient statistical coordination, the RSCCs are given authority to
act on statistical matters that concern only their region, province or
city, municipality, and barangay. Statistical matters that are of
national concern and/or may affect the other regions shall be elevated
by the RSCC to the NSCB Central Office.
(d) The
following statistical coordination mechanisms shall be implemented by
the NSCB at the local levels. In areas where there are RSCCs already in
place, the NSCB may delegate the implementation of these mechanisms to
said committees. As such, all local government units are enjoined to
comply.
(1)
Preparation and Review of Statistical Calendar. Starting CY 1993, the
provinces and cities shall submit to NSCB through the RSCCs for review
and approval a Five-Year Statistical Calendar indicating what
statistical activities are to be conducted, the objectives, data to be
generated, and the expected time lag. The concerns of the
municipalities and barangays shall be coursed through their mother
provinces and municipalities, respectively. As one of the inputs in the
preparation of the LGU calendars, the NSCB in coordination with major
data users and producers, shall determine and provide the LGUs the
types of subregional data which are and which could be made available
from national statistical activities.
(2)
Statistical Survey Review and Clearance System. For every statistical
survey to be conducted by the LGUs, the responsible LGU shall submit,
at least 90 days before the start of the scheduled field operations,
the survey design and forms/questionnaires to the NSCB through the
RSCCs.
The NSCB shall conduct the
review of the technical aspects of the statistical survey. As a notice
of approval, a clearance number shall be issued. Said number shall be
printed by the LGU in the survey questionnaires. Clearance shall be
renewed every two years and/or everytime changes or revisions are to be
made in the survey design or questionnaire.
(3) Review of
Data Quality. The data generated by the LGUs shall be regularly
reviewed by the RSCC in terms of their accuracy, consistency, and
timeliness as basis of recommending statistical improvements at the
local level.
Sec. 3. Production of Local-level statistics. —
(a)
The National Statistical Office (NSO) shall remain as the general
purpose statistics producing agency. It shall provide, when feasible
and when budget permits, the statistics required for local-level
planning at the lowest disaggregation.
(b) The
generation of provincial, city, municipal, and barangay statistics,
which are by-products of administrative reporting systems inherent in
administering the devolved basic services, shall be continued by the
Local Government Units (LGUs) consistent with the manner, form, and
frequency being adopted by the concerned national line agencies.
(c) For the
generation of other statistics with sub-national disaggregation, the
NSCB shall designate which of the statistics are to be generated by the
national agencies or by the local government or jointly by the national
and local governments.
(d) If the
specific data required by the LGUs could not be made available from
existing statistical activities of the national government, the
generation of such statistics shall be done by the LGUs in coordination
with the RSCCs.
Sec. 4. Consolidation of Data Produced by LGUs. —
(a)
To ensure accuracy, consistency, and comparability of statistics among
the LGUs, statistical concepts, definitions, techniques, and
methodologies shall be formulated by the NSCB, thru the RSCCs, with due
recognition of the conditions and needs at the local levels.
(b) Local
data, which can be produced by LGUs to arrive at regional or national
figures as may be determined by the NSCB, shall be consolidated by a
national agency to be designated by the NSCB and to be incorporated
into an official Data Base after being reviewed by the RSCCs. The
designated national agency shall participate in the work of the RSCC in
reviewing the consistency of statistics at various geographic levels
and ensure that such data are included in its statistical compilations
and publications in the manner and disaggregation recommended by the
NSCB.
(c) In the
regions, the National Statistical Coordination Board shall designate
the agency/body that will maintain the one-stop-shop Data Base. All
LGUs can have access to said Data Base. The LGUs are also enjoined to
establish their own data bases in support of planning and programming
activities at the local level.
Sec. 5. Provision of Technical Assistance. —
(a)
The NSCB may, upon request of the LGUs and in coordination with the
other national line agencies, deputize statistical personnel from its
own personnel or of the other agencies to render technical assistance
in the statistical operations of the LGUs. The LGUs shall, however,
shoulder the payment of statistical service fee to the deputized
personnel of the national agencies subject to the existing government
rules and regulations.
(b) On the
other hand, the LGUs may also be requested to provide assistance to
national government agencies in gathering data of national concern. The
national agencies shall likewise provide additional emoluments to the
LGUs personnel utilized for their statistical activities, subject to
existing rules and regulations of the national government.
(c) In order
to build up the statistical capability of the LGUs, the NSCB, the
Statistical Research and Training Center (SRTC), and the Local
Government Academy (LGA) shall prepare and implement a statistical
manpower development program for the LGUs.
Sec. 6. Guidelines on the Issuance of
Certification of Population sizes Pursuant to Sec. 7, 386, 442, 450,
452, and 461 of the New Local Government Code.
(a)
The National Statistics Office shall issue certification on data that
it has collected and processed as well as on statistics that it has
estimated.
(b) For census
years, certification on population size will be based on actual
population census counts; while for the intercensal years, the
certification will be made on the basis of a set of demographic
projections or estimates declared official by the National Statistical
Coordination Board (NSCB).
(c)
Certification of population census counts will be made as of the census
reference date, such as May 1, 1990, while those of intercensal
population estimates will be as of middle of every year.
(d)
Certification of population size based on projections may specify the
range within which the true count is deemed likely to fall. The range
will correspond to the official low and high population projections.
(e) The
smallest geographic area for which a certification on population size
may be issued will be the barangay for census population counts, and
the city or municipality for intercensal estimates. If an LGU wants to
conduct its own population census, during off-census years, approval
must be sought from the NSCB and the conduct must be under the
technical supervision of NSO from planning to data processing.
(f)
Certifications of population size based on published census results
shall be issued by the Provincial Census Officers or by the Regional
Census Officers. Certifications based on projections or estimates,
however, will be issued by the NSO Administrator or his designated
certifying officer.
Sec. 7. Transitory Provisions. — The national
agencies shall continue to administer the gathering and processing of
the necessary local statistics on the basic services developed to the
LGUs, unit the end of CY 1992, provided that, the personnel absorbed by
the LGUs from these agencies, shall be utilized by the national line
agencies in the gathering of raw data. Thereafter, the generation of
these statistics shall be made by the LGUs in accordance with Sec. 2
(b) of these guidelines.
Sec. 8. In order to achieve the smooth
implementation of the foregoing provisions, the NSCB together with the
concerned national line agencies, shall conduct the necessary
orientation trainings/seminars for the LGUs. The costs of these
trainings/seminars shall come from the information campaign funds of
the Local Government Academy.
Sec. 9. The National Statistical Coordination
Board (NSCB) and the various Regional Statistical Coordination
Committee (RSCC) shall see to it that the foregoing provisions are
adequately and efficiently carried out.
Sec. 10. The NSCB shall be authorized to provide
for any amendments to these guidelines.
Sec. 11. If, for any reason, any part or provision
of this Executive Order shall be held unconstitutional or invalid,
other parts or provisions hereof which are not affected thereby shall
continue to be in full force and effect.
Sec. 12. This Executive Order shall take effect
immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 6th day of November in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety three.
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