November 30, 2006
The Regional Statistical
Coordination Committee (RSCC) issued four resolutions during its third regular
meeting on November 8, 2006. The resolutions
issued pertain to the celebration of the National Statistics Month (NSM) in the
region and on the evaluation report on the pilot-testing of the generation of
data from the business licensing system in Ilocos Norte. The resolutions issued
were: 1) Resolution No. 16, “Approving
the Revised Guidelines for the Search for the Best NSM Province and Activity”;
2) Resolution No. 17, “Enjoining the Province of Ilocos Norte to
Institutionalize the Generation of Data from the Business Licensing System”; 3)
Resolution No. 18, “Enjoining the Provinces of Pangasinan, La Union and Ilocos
Sur to Replicate the Generation of Data from the Business Licensing System”;
and 4) Resolution No. 19, “Approving
the Creation of a Technical Working Group to Study the Indicators Used in the
Existing Business Licensing Forms of LGUs.”
The RSCC earlier issued three and 12 resolutions during its 1st and 2nd regular meetings,
respectively.
The RSCC 3rd regular
meeting was conducted at the NEDA
Regional Office 1 in San Fernando City, La Union. It was sponsored by the
Research and Statistics Assistance Center (RSAC) of the University of Northern
Philippines (UNP).
The last regular meeting of the
RSCC in 2006 is scheduled on December 13, 2006. The main agenda of the meeting are the presentations/discussions
on the highlights of the NSM celebration, 3rd quarter 2006 Regional
Economic Situationer, and results of
the survey on hunger incidence in
the Philippines. The highlights of the meeting is the
awarding of the winners of the 2006 Search for Best NSM Province and
Activity. The meeting will be held at
the NEDA Regional Office 1 in San Fernando City, La Union with the National
Statistics Office and Bureau of Agricultural Statistics as meeting sponsors