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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 1082 -
DIRECTING THE PROPER ALLOCATION OF STATISTICAL FUNCTIONS AND
RESPONSIBILITIES OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES |
The Ministry of Finance
The Ministry of Agriculture
The Ministry of Trade
The Ministry of Industry
The Ministry of Public Works
The Ministry of Transportations and Communications
The Ministry of Labor
The Ministry of Education and Culture
The Ministry of Natural Resources
The Ministry of Public Highways
The Ministry of the Budget
The Central Bank of the Philippines
The Ministry of Human Settlements
The Ministry of Energy
The Ministry of Health and all other
Ministries, Bureaus, Offices, Agencies and
Government Instrumentalities, including
government-owned and controlled corporations
involved in the statistical
activities of the Government.
WHEREAS, the National Economic and Development Authority as defined in Sec. 3 of Presidential Decree No. 107 is vested with the function of coordinating statistical activities of all government agencies, formulating statistical standards and methodology, and prescribing their use by government agencies as well as preparing the national income accounts;
WHEREAS, LOI No. 521 as amended by LOI No. 732 empowers the National Economic and Development Authority, thru its Statistical Coordination Office, to effect proper allocation of statistical functions and responsibilities to agencies concerned;
WHEREAS, the production and dissemination by government agencies of similar and related statistics through the application of differing techniques, methodologies, concepts and time frames continue and result in confusion among local and international users thereby creating a low level of confidence and credibility of statistics produced in the Philippine Statistical System;
WHEREAS, the current system for the Integrated Quarterly Survey of Establishments involving a number of cooperating agencies has not been the most effective arrangement since this has led to confusion and delays in data processing;
WHEREAS, existing statistical resources could be used more efficiently through the elimination of duplicative and unnecessary statistical series including those with very low reliability, and the channeling of such resources to the production of the most useful set of statistics deemed necessary to meet the changing demands of government administrators, planners and policy makers for relevant statistics.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, in order to ensure the efficient and effective use of government statistical resources do hereby order and instruction the following:
1.
The collection, processing and dissemination of data on production,
employment, earnings and wage rates derived from current surveys of
establishments shall be the sole responsibility of the National Census
and Statistics Office.
2. The Central
Bank of the Philippines (CBP) shall continue to be responsible for
monetary and financial statistics. It shall cease to collect and
process the following statistical series: (a) indexes of physical
volume of production, (b) gross sales and/or receipt indexes, (c)
indexes of average monthly earnings of salaried employees and of wage
earners, (d) employment indexes, (e) wage rate indexes, and (f) money
and real wage rates.
3. The
National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) thru its Statistical
Coordination Office (SCO), shall immediately develop a new series of
indicators on production, employment, earnings and wage rates and
maintain such series until such time as the responsibility for their
production can be allocated to the appropriate agencies.
4. The NEDA,
thru the SCO, shall determine and effect the proper allocation of
functions and responsibilities among government agencies for the
production of statistics on food consumption, nutrition, prices,
income, health and other statistical series. Such agencies so
determined, shall make available for their current resources, the
necessary manpower and other requirements to undertake such activities.
5. All
government agencies concerned are directed to consult with and obtain
clearance from the NEDA prior to the production, publication and
dissemination of new statistical series to prevent duplication with
existing series and for conformity to standards prescribed by the NEDA.
6. All
statistical survey forms and questionnaires shall pass review and
clearance by the SCO, NEDA prior to their use in the conduct of any
statistical survey.
7. Government
agencies such as the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS),
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Bureau of Internal Revenue
(BIR), Social Security System (SSS), Board of Investments (BOI) and
other agencies which produce statistics as by-products of their
administrative and regulatory functions shall, in consultation with the
SCO of the NEDA, generate such statistical series as maybe deemed
useful for planning and policy formulation.
8. The
allocation and release of funds by the Ministry of the Budget for
statistical activities of agencies shall be in accordance with the
spirit and intent of this Order.
9. These
orders and instructions shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 19th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.
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