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NSCB Resolution No. 2
Series of 2004

Annex BR-02-2004-01

MALACAÑANG
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION NO. ____

DECLARING MAY 2005 AS NATIONAL CENSUS MONTH

WHEREAS, the national government’s thrust to decentralize functions to the local government units, requires the need for an up-to-date and comprehensive data of the population at the local levels;

WHEREAS, the Local Government Code sets the population census counts as benchmarks for the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) and for the creation of new and the conversion to a higher level of local government units;

WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 121, otherwise known as the Reorganization Act of the Philippine Statistical System, declared that the National Statistics Office (NSO) shall be the major statistical agency responsible for generating general-purpose statistics and for undertaking such censuses and surveys as may be designated by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB);

WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 352, Designation of Statistical Activities that will Generate Critical Data for Decision-Making of the Government and the Private Sector, issued on July 1, 1996, designates the conduct of the Mid-Decade Census of Population every 10 years by the NSO;

WHEREAS, pursuant to the aforesaid Orders, the 2005 Census of Population (POPCEN) will be conducted in May 2005;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare MAY 2005 AS NATIONAL CENSUS MONTH.

All departments and other government agencies, including government-owned or controlled corporations, as well as local government units, are hereby enjoined to implement and execute the operational plans, directives, and orders of the NSCB, through the NSO, relative to this Proclamation.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this ___ day of ____________, the year of our Lord, two thousand and four.

By the President:

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Executive Secretary

 

 

 

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