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Asia-Pacific Economic Statistics Week

Implementation of the Regional Program on Economic Statistics (RPES)

in the Philippines

Romeo S. Recide Deputy National Statistician, Sectoral Statistics Office

Philippine Statistics Authority


Content

I. The Philippine Statistics Authority

II. Advocacy and Coordination

III. Improvements in Statistical Capacity

IV. Technical Cooperation

V. Role of Statistics on Sustainable Development Goals

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Republic Act No. 10625

or the

Philippine Statistical Act of 2013 signed on 12 September 2013

“AN ACT REORGANIZING THE PHILIPPINE STATISTICAL SYSTEM, REPEALING FOR THE PURPOSE EXECUTIVE ORDER

NUMBER ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE ENTITLED “REORGANIZING AND STRENGTHENING THE PHILIPPINE

STATISTICAL SYSTEM AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES”


The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)

• constitutes the existing major statistical agencies engaged in primary data collection and compilation of secondary data:

• National Statistics Office (NSO)

• National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB)

• Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS)

• Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics (BLES)


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Headed by the National Statistician,

Dr. Lisa Grace S. Bersales

The PSA is composed of:

a. Sectoral Statistics Office (SSO);

b. Censuses and Technical Coordination Office (CTCO); and

c. Civil Registration and Central Support Office (CRCSO)

including the Field Statistical Service comprising of the Regional Statistical Service Offices and Provincial Statistical Offices




Sec. 6 of RA 10625 (Philippine Statistical Act of 2013)

• Mandates the PSA to prepare the Philippine Statistical Development Program (PSDP)

Philippine Statistical Development Program

• sets the directions, thrusts and priorities of the PSS for the medium term for the generation and dissemination of statistical information used in policy and decision-making

• identifies priority statistical development activities to be undertaken to support the data requirements of the medium-term national development plan

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Philippine Statistical Development Program

• aims to:

– achieve overall development and improvement in the operations of the PSS

– address critical information needs of various stakeholders

– address data requirement needs of national and sectoral development plans as well as programs in line with the country’s international commitments

• The Philippines equivalent of the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) advocated by the international community as an instrument for “setting the vision for where the NSS should be in five to ten years and will set milestones for getting there”

• Long before the NSDS, we already have the PSDP



PSDP 2011-2017 Strategic Plan

• represents convergence of stakeholders in the PSS towards the production of timely, relevant, and quality official statistics towards inclusive growth, reduced poverty, and sustainable progress in the nation

1. Management and coordination of the PSS 11. Energy statistics

2. Statistical capacity development 12. Information society statistics

- Human resource development 13. Population and housing statistics

- Statistical research and development 14. Income, poverty and hunger statistics

3. Statistical information management and dissemination 15. Labor and employment statistics

4. Local statistics development 16. Education and culture statistics

5. Macroeconomic accounts and statistics 17. Health and nutrition statistics

- Price Statistics 18. Social protection statistics

6. Monetary and financial statistics 19. Statistics on children and gender development

7. Agriculture and fisheries statistics 20. Environment and naturalo resources statistics

8. Industry, trade and investment 21. Science and technology and innovation statistics

9. Tourism statistics 22. Governance statistics

10. Transport statistics 23. Peace and security statistics

PSDP 2011-2017 Chapters

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Price and costs Consumer, producer, product price inidices, labor cost,

wages, exchange rates, PPPs

Demand and output GDP (p/e), external trade, industrial structure statistics;

short-term indicators (industry output/demand) and

productivity

Income and wealth NA economy/by sector to measure income, savings,

investment, wealth, BOP to measure international income

and capital flows, IIP and external debt

Money and banking Assets and liabilities of banking sector, monetary

measures and interest rates

Government Public revenue, expenditure, borrowing and lending,

government accounts

Labor market Labor supply and demand, LF characteristics, employment

and unemployment, underemployment, hours worked,

employment in formal and informal sector, job creation,

vacancies

Natural resources

and environment

Measures of sustainable economic growth,

discovery/depletion and degradation of natural assets

Core Set of Economic Statistics

• The updating of the PSDP is usually done every six years once new administration comes

• The PSDP is released one year after the formulation of the Philippine Development Plan (PDP)

• The PSDP supports the statistical requirements of the PDP. Updates on core sets of economic statistics will be updated in line with the PDP

• The next PSDP will be released in 2018 which will cover statistical programs for 2018-2023

Updating the Core Set of Economic Statistics


Reported frequencies for indicators in the Core Set compared to RPES recommendations


Core Indicator Reported Frequencies

Consumer price index (CPI) Monthly Quarterly /

Producer price index (PPI) Monthly Quarterly /

Commodity price index Unavailable Monthly X

External merchandise trade prices indices Ad-hoc Monthly X

Wages / Earnings data Every 2 years Quarterly ●

Compensation index* Quarterly Quarterly /

GDP (production) nominal and real Quarterly Quarterly /

GDP (expenditure) nominal and real Quarterly Quarterly /

External trade – merchandise Monthly Monthly /

External trade – services Monthly Quarterly /

Short-term indicator (STI) –industry

outputQuarterly Quarterly /

STI – services output Quarterly Quarterly /

STI – consumer demand Quarterly Quarterly /

STI – fixed investment Quarterly Quarterly /

STI – inventories Ad-hoc Quarterly ●

Economy structure statistics Annually Every 5 years /

Productivity Quarterly Annually /

RPES recommendations

Price and

Costs

Demand and

Output

* Based on formal economy/industries

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Reported frequencies for indicators in the Core Set compared to RPES recommendations


**Integrated National Accounts is released annually but up to savings only ***Institutional Sector Accounts is released annually but up to savings only

Core Indicator Reported Frequencies

Integrated national accounts** Annually Annually /

Institutional sector accounts*** Annually Annually /

Balance of payments (BOP) Quarterly Quarterly /

International investment position (IIP) Annually Annually /

External debt Quarterly Quarterly /

Income distribution Other Every 5 years ●

Assets / liabilities of depository corporations Monthly Monthly /

Broad money and credit aggregates Monthly Monthly /

Interest rate statistics Monthly Monthly /

General government operations Ad-hoc Quarterly ●

General government debt Monthly Quarterly /

Labour supply and demand Quarterly Annually /

Hours worked Quarterly Quarterly /

Natural

Resources and

Environment

Natural resources Ad-hoc Annually ●

Income and

Wealth

Money and

Banking

Government

Labour Market

RPES recommendations


Statistical Infrastructure


Source:

http://communities.unescap.org/system/files/philip

pines_national_summary.pdf

FrequencyTimeliness

(Advance Release

Calendar)∕ National Accounts Quarterly 2 months

∕ Balance of Payments Quarterly 2.75 months

∕Labour Force Survey Quarterly 40 days after survey month

1st month of the quarter

∕ Household

Income/Expenditure Survey

Every 3 years 10 months after the second

visit (January)

∕Annual/Quarterly Survey of

Establishments

Annual/Quarterly 2 years/45 days

- COFOG

∕ Enterprise Census Every 6 years 3 years

∕ Population Census Every 5 years 12 months

∕ Economic Census Every 6 years 36 months

∕ Agricultural Census Every 10 years 12 months

- BoP to be BPM6 coherent

- CPC ver. 2

by June 2014

- ISIC Rev. 3.1 (Rev.4 planned)

Key Collections/Compilations Standards/Classifications

- SNA 1993 (2008 planned)

- COICOP

∕ Quality assessment framework is available and used to monitor the quality of economic statistics outputs

∕ Centralized national metadata repository is available and statistical releases are accompanied with metadata

∕ Centralized business register is currently used for multiple statistical products

∕ Established methods for identifying ‘births’ and ‘deaths’ of businesses

∕ IT systems are considered adequate for producing the Core Set of Economic Statistics

http://communities.unescap.org/system/files/philippines_national_summary.pdf

http://communities.unescap.org/system/files/philippines_national_summary.pdf

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• New organizational structure;

• Government resources, especially human resources for statistics have been perennially inadequate;

• A number of statistical activities have relied heavily on technical assistance from international development agencies;

• Data generation has remained fragmented and uncoordinated in some sectors;

• Policies and guidelines on administrative-based data have remained weak and insufficient

Challenges



• Formulation of policy and appropriate mechanisms to ensure interconnectivity and facilitate data sharing among administrative-based data systems based on the principle of public good;

• Establishment of competency standards for statisticians to identify core skills training needed to improve organizational and job performance;

• Institutionalization of competency-based human resource capacity building program for statistical human resources

• Improvement of interagency mechanisms to initiate and coordinate the development of economic statistics;

Statistical Programs

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• Participate in international cooperation and capacity building programs/projects, international conferences, workshops and expert group meetings;

• Strengthen the institutional coordination within the PSS and between PSS and budget department, legislative bodies, and development partners to ensure funding for continuous improvement of economic statistics; and

• Implementation of a data quality assurance framework (DQAF) for economic statistics;

• Upgrading of ICT resources to support automation of collection,

processing and dissemination of economic statistics.



Domains of Core Statistics to be prioritized: • Savings; Income and wealth • Wealth;

• Employment in informal sector; Labor market

• Terms of trade; Demand and output

• Measures of sustainable economic growth; Natural resources and environment • Discovery/depletion and degradation of

natural assets

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IV. Technical Cooperation

International Collaboration

• Interested in participating in RPES as both provider and a recipient of technical assistance

• ADB – International Comparison Program (ICP) for calculating purchasing power parities (PPP)

• APEC – Input-Output (IO) Accounts

• World Bank – Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES)


V. Role of Statistics on SDGs

Role of Statistics in Society

• Statistics must inform decisions!

• Statistics must serve as a tool towards good governance!

• Statistics, both positive and negative, must be communicated!

• Statistics must be relevant to society!

• Statistics must contribute to the measurement of genuine

progress of society!

• Statistics must be able to answer the question:

Are we achieving our targets…our commitments?

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1. For policy formulation and planning

- Input to the preparation of the Philippine Development Plan

(PDP) and its Results Matrix

- Will serve as reference on appropriate programs by Line

Departments, as well as, in policies to be adopted for the

achievement of SDGs

2. For targeting/prioritization

- Will be used to identify priority areas/sectors to be included

in the government’s program

- May serve as reference for budget preparation/allocation



3. For monitoring

- SDG Watch (reports status of achievement of SDGs

through the indicators)

- Philippine Progress Report

- Serves as a guide to national and local government on

the track of progress

- Input to global/regional monitoring reports


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Maraming Salamat.

www.psa.gov.ph [email protected]

http://www.psa.gov.ph/

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