TIMETABLE

AGENCY RESPOSIBLE

1.

Presentation and discussion of the revised LFS questionnaire, the proposed flow chart for identifying the unemployed, and corresponding recommendations to the NSCB Executive Board

20 October 2004

NSO, NSCB

2.

Conduct of information dissemination activities on the new definition of unemployment

November 2004–
May 2005

SRTC, NSO, NSCB,
DOLE, BSP

3.

Revision and finalization of the LFS questionnaire

December 2004 – March 2005

NSO in coordination with the IAC-LIPS

• Review of the revised LFS questionnaire
• Conduct of pretest 2
• Processing of the results of pretest 2
• Final revision of the LFS questionnaire
• Review of the revised LFS manual
• Preparatory phase (printing, training, etc.)

4.

Adoption of the revised LFS questionnaire

April 2005

NSO

5.

Generation of parallel series on unemployment based on the old and the new definitions

15 June 2005 –
15 June 2006

NSO

6.

Continuation of the new series on unemployment

16 June 2006 onwards

NSO