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Population

Contact Person

Ms. Carmelita N. Ericta
National Statistics Office (NSO)
R. Magsaysay St., Sta. Mesa Manila, Philippines

Phone: 632 7160807 or 632 7137040
Fax: 632 7160734 or 632 7137073
E-mail: CN.Ericta@mail.census.gov.ph

Dissemination Formats

Hardcopy
(x) News release ( ) Weekly ( ) monthly
( ) quarterly bulletin (x) Other

Electronic
(x) On-line country bulletin board or database
(x) Diskette ( ) CD ROM ( ) Other

The Data: Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness
Coverage characteristics	Data are disseminated on population estimates and projections in millions of persons. The data covers all residents of the Philippines. Excluded are all foreigners related to international organizations, refugee camps etc. and residents of the Philippines being abroad for more than one year from departure. The data are based on data obtained from the census, the last of which was the census undertaken in 2000 with May 1, 2000 as the reference date. Censuses have been conducted on a regular ten-yearly basis beginning with the census undertaken by the National Statistical Office in 1960. (The first census in the Philippines was conducted in 1903).
Periodicity	Annual
Timeliness	8 months after the census.
Access by the Public
Advance dissemination of release calendar	Not applicable.
Simultaneous release to all interested parties	The summary annual population estimates based on the census data are released simultaneously to all interested parties by publishing the report on "Population Census Highlights".
Integrity
Dissemination of terms and conditions under which official statistics are produced, including ... confidentiality of individual responses	The compilation and dissemination of the data are governed by the terms and conditions of the Commonwealth Act No. 591 (August 19, 1940), Executive Order No. 121 (January 30, 1987), and Batas Pambansa Blg. 72 (June 11, 1980). Commonwealth Act No. 591: Created the National Statistics Office, then known as the Bureau of Census and Statistics, to consolidate statistical activities of the Government. Specifies that the NSO is authorized as the sole government agency to all censuses. (This provision appears in survey questionnaires and in the primer "Question and Answer on Population Census".) Section 4 provides that data furnished to NSO will be kept strictly confidential and shall not be used as evidence in court for purposes of taxation, regulation or investigation; nor shall such data or information be divulged to any person except in the form of summaries or statistical tables in which no reference to an individual, corporation, association, partnership, institution or business enterprise shall appear. Executive Order No. 121: Placed the NSO under the administrative authority of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). Batasang Pambansa Blg. 72 An Act authorizing the NSO to conduct population censuses every ten years beginning in 1980 without prejudice to the undertaking of special censuses on agriculture, industry, commerce, housing and other sources as may be approved by the NEDA. Copies of Commonwealth Act No. 591, EO 121 and Batasang Pambansa BLG 72 may be obtained from the NSCB, 2/F Midland Buendia Bldg., Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Ext., Makati City, Philippines. (Fax: 632 8909408; Email: info@nscb.gov.ph)The compilation and dissemination of the data are governed by the terms and conditions of the Commonwealth Act No. 591 (August 19, 1940), Executive Order No. 121 (January 30, 1987), and Batas Pambansa Blg. 72 (June 11, 1980). Commonwealth Act No. 591: Created the National Statistics Office, then known as the Bureau of Census and Statistics, to consolidate statistical activities of the Government. Specifies that the NSO is authorized as the sole government agency to all censuses. (This provision appears in survey questionnaires and in the primer "Question and Answer on Population Census".) Section 4 provides that data furnished to NSO will be kept strictly confidential and shall not be used as evidence in court for purposes of taxation, regulation or investigation; nor shall such data or information be divulged to any person except in the form of summaries or statistical tables in which no reference to an individual, corporation, association, partnership, institution or business enterprise shall appear. Executive Order No. 121: Placed the NSO under the administrative authority of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). Batasang Pambansa Blg. 72 An Act authorizing the NSO to conduct population censuses every ten years beginning in 1980 without prejudice to the undertaking of special censuses on agriculture, industry, commerce, housing and other sources as may be approved by the NEDA. Copies of Commonwealth Act No. 591, EO 121 and Batasang Pambansa BLG 72 may be obtained from the NSCB, 2/F Midland Buendia Bldg., Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Ext., Makati City, Philippines. (Fax: 632 8909408; Email: info@nscb.gov.ph) .
Identification of internal government access to data before release	The official population counts to be released are submitted to the President of the Philippines for official proclamation before the end of the census year.
Identification of ministerial commentary on the occasion of statistical releases	There is no ministerial commentary accompanying the release of population census results.
Provision of information about revision and advance notice of major changes in methodology	Preliminary releases and revisions are indicated in the publications. Changes in methodology or procedures are cleared with the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB), which oversees all statistical activities in the Philippine statistical system. There are no pending major changes in methodology, but any future major changes in methodology will be announced through a press release accompanying the release of the new data.
Quality
Dissemination of documentation on methodology and sources used in preparing statistics	A description of the methodology used in the population censuses is given in the census publication, "Questions and Answers on Population Census" and the census training manuals. Detailed technical materials are available on request from NSO's Information Dissemination Section. (Phone: 632 7137081. Fax: 632 7141715.)
Dissemination of component detail, reconciliations with related data, and statistical frameworks that support statistical cross-checks and provide assurance of reasonableness	"Population Census Highlights" publishes detailed data down to the municipal level with data on population distribution by age, sex, and other characteristics. Copies are available on request from the contact person. Detailed data on population characteristics at the barangay level can be generated by users using public use files (PUFs), which can be accessed by making a request to the NSO Administrator at the Manila Head Office (Fax. 632 7160807, or 632 7160734) or by writing to the provincial offices of the NSO. The decennial census results are released through data dissemination seminars at the national and sub-national levels. The data released at these seminars are available to the public though primers. Copies may also be obtained at the Databank and Information Services Division of NSO (Phone: 632 7137081. Fax: 632 7141715.)