NSCB Resolution No. 1
Series of 2005

ADOPTION OF THE METHODOLOGY USED IN GENERATING
THE 2000 CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING-BASED
NATIONAL POPULATION PROJECTIONS

WHEREAS, there is a need to prepare population projections to provide planners, policy-makers and program managers with population data between censal years;

WHEREAS, the availability of more recent population data based on the 2000 Census of Population and Housing (CPH) allows the preparation of new sets of population projections;

WHEREAS, the National Statistics Office (NSO), through the Inter-Agency Working Group on Population Projections, formulated the specific methodology used in projecting the population based on the cohort-component method and submitted the same for review by the Technical Committee on Population and Housing Statistics (TCPHS);

WHEREAS, the NSO has come up with a set of national population projections based on the 2000 CPH and endorsed the same to the TCPHS;

WHEREAS, the 2000-based national, regional and provincial population projections assume certain future trends in the demographic processes of fertility, mortality and migration required by the cohort-component method of population projections;

WHEREAS, the TCPHS, through a referendum has endorsed the methodology and estimates of national population projections for approval by the Board;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that the Board approve for adoption by all concerned the attached methodology in generating the 2000-based National Population Projections (Annex BR-01-2005-01) and estimates thereof (Annex BR-01-2005-02) as the official figures to be utilized for planning and programming purposes.

Approved this 24th day of January 2005, in Pasig City.

Attested by:

ROMULO A. VIROLA
Secretary General