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Names of Three LGUs Corrected
in the PSGC in the First Quarter of 2009

Corrections in the names of three local government units (LGUs) were reflected in the Philippine Standard Geographic Code (PSGC) in the first quarter of 2009. These corrections were done based on the requests made by the concerned LGUs through the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and the National Statistics Office (NSO) and as agreed upon in the interagency Technical Working Group on Geographic Classification and Technical Committee on Statistical Standards and Classifications of the NSCB.

Fourth quarter 2008
approved FDI
declines by 79.2 percent

Total approved foreign direct investments (FDI) approved by the Board of Investments (BOI), Clark Development Corporation (CDC), Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), and Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) declined significantly by 79.2 percent to PhP 21.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008 from a high level of PhP 102.6 billion in the same quarter a year ago. 

NSCB Holds Users’ Forum
on the 2006 Poverty Statistics
for the Basic Sectors
and 2006 Child Development Index

The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) will conduct a Users’ Forum on the 2006 Poverty Statistics for the Basic Sectors and the 2006 Child Development Index (CDI) on 25 June 2009, 8:30 a.m. at the Dusit Thani Hotel, Makati City. The generation of the 2006 poverty statistics for eight basic sectors, namely: 1) women; b) youth; c) senior citizens; d) urban poor; e) migrant and formal sector workers; f) farmers; g) fishermen; and h) children, is in accordance with NSCB Resolution No. 11 Series of 2007, Approving the Methodology for the Generation of Poverty Statistics for the Basic Sectors, which institutionalizes the generation of poverty statistics for the basic sectors through the NSCB.