Policy Uses of Statistics

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Policy Uses of Statistics produced by
the National Statistical Coordination Board
by Ms. Lina V, Castro, Mr. Candido J. Astrologo
, Jr. Assistant Secretary General and Director IV
EVALUATION THEORY, APPROACHES AND PRACTICES IN
THE PHILIPPINES 1st ME Network Forum07 November
2011
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Outline

1. The National Statistical Coordination Board
2. The System of Designated Statistics
3. General Uses of Statistics
4. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB
5. Challenges/Concluding Remarks

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I. The National Statistical Coordination Board
The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB)

• Created through the virtue of Executive Order No.
  121 dated January 30, 1987
• Serves as the highest policy making and
  coordinating body on statistical matters in the
  country
• NSCB Technical Staff serves as the secretariat to
  the NSCB Executive Board 

Goal
To promote the independence, objectivity,
integrity, responsiveness, and relevance of the
Philippine Statistical System (PSS).
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The Philippine Statistical System Framework of
Coordination
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I. The National Statistical Coordination Board

• Functions of the NSCB
• Promote and maintain an efficient statistical
  system in the government
• Formulate policies on all matters relating to
  government statistical operations
• Recommend executive and legislative measures to
  enhance the development and efficiency of the
  system, including the internal structure of
  statistical agencies
• Establish appropriate mechanism for statistical
  coordination at the regional, provincial and city
  levels
• Approve the Philippine Statistical Development
  Program (PSDP)

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I. The National Statistical Coordination Board

• Functions of the NSCB
• Allocate statistical responsibilities among
  government agencies by designating the statistics
  to be collected by them, including their
  periodicity and content
• Review budgetary proposals involving statistical
  operations and submit an integrated budget for
  the Philippine Statistical System (PSS) to the
  Department of Budget and Management (DBM)
• Review and clear, prior to release, all funds for
  statistical operations
• Develop, prescribe and maintain appropriate
  framework for the improvement of statistical
  coordination and
• Prescribe uniform standards and classification
  systems in government statistics.

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I. The National Statistical Coordination Board

• Major statistics produced by the NSCB
• National Accounts of the Philippines
• Gross Regional Domestic Product and Gross
  Regional Domestic Expenditures
• Input-Output Tables
• Satellite Accounts on Tourism, Environment and
  Natural Resources
• Poverty statistics
• Basic sectors
• Small area poverty estimates
• Foreign Direct Investments
• Leading Economic Indicators
• Economic Indices
• As mandated and based on System of Designated
  Statistics

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II. The System of Designated Statistics

• The System of Designated Statistics
• a mechanism that identifies and generates the
  most critical and essential statistics required
  for social and economic planning/analysis based
  on approved criteria
• Executive Order No. 352, Series of 1996
• Designation of Statistical Activities That Will
  Generate Critical Data for Decision-Making of the
  Government and the Private Sector
• approved the activities and statistics that had
  been designated by the NSCB for adoption by the
  government

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II. The System of Designated Statistics
System of Designated Statistics (SDS)

• designated statistics/statistical activities
  enjoy higher priority over other statistical
  activities in terms of resource allocation
  determined by the Department of Budget and
  Management
• Statistics and indicators generated by the system
  shall be adopted by the government as the
  official data and information for development
  planning, policy analysis and monitoring
• The system is a dynamic and evolving process that
  allows addition and deletion of
  statistics/statistical activities

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II. The System of Designated Statistics

• Coverage
• covers both the statistical activities and the
  statistics generated from them.
• censuses and statistical surveys
• derived statistics
• administrative data system
• defines the following
• agency responsible
• frequency of data collection
• schedule of data dissemination
• geographic disaggregation of data
• 57 designated statistical activities/statistics
  of 20 government agencies

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III. General Uses of Statistics
Official statistics are a tool used in decision
making inside and outside government. For that
tool to be effective, it must be designed to meet
the needs of users. If a charity uses official
figures about local areas to target its
resources, it is doing more than managing its own
business. It is contributing to the well being of
society
UN Statistical Commission, The use made of
official statistics, March 2007
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III. General Uses of Statistics

• Generic classes of uses
• Informing the general publics choices
• Government decision making about policies and
  associated decisions about related programs and
  projects
• Resource allocation
• Informing private sector commercial choices
• Informing public marketing campaigns
• Facilitating academic research
• In relation to government policy
• Policy making considering the rationale for
  intervention, framing objectives and appraising
  the options
• Policy monitoring reviewing outcomes,
  evaluating the policy intervention and refining
  it as appropriate

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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB

• How do we document the policy uses?
• News/Media clippings
• Letters of request for data
• Directly asked the user when he/she requests for
  the data

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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB

• National Accounts
• 1.1 Monitor the behavior of the economy
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• National accounts aggregates, such as GDP and GDP
  per head of population, are widely used by
  analysts, politicians, the press, the business
  community and the public at large as summary or
  macro indicators of economic activity.
• Movements of such aggregates, and their
  associated price and volume measures, are used to
  evaluate the overall performance of the economy
  and hence to judge the relative success or
  failure of economic policies pursued by
  government.
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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB

•  National Accounts
• 1.2 Macroeconomic analysis
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• to investigate the causal mechanisms at work
  within an economy
• in formulating macroeconomic models.
• Economic policy in the short term is formulated
  on the basis of an assessment of the recent
  behavior and current state of the economy and a
  view, or precise forecast, about likely future
  developments.
• These short-term forecasts are typically made
  using econometric models that utilize national
  accounts variables.

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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB

•  National Accounts
• 1.3 International comparisons
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• used for international comparisons of major
  aggregates, such as GDP or GDP per head
• used for comparisons of structural statistics,
  such as ratios of investment, taxes or government
  expenditures to GDP.
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• 1.4 Statistical Policies
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• National accounts serve as a framework for
  statistical systems and as a point of reference
  in establishing standards for related statistics.

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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB

•  2. Poverty Statistics
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• 2.1 Targeting beneficiaries of Programs/Projects
• DSWD used the small area estimates of poverty
• for their Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program to
  identify the poorest municipalities from the 20
  poorest provinces
• estimates as basis for prioritizing target
  households for the National Household Targeting
  System or Poverty Reduction (NHTSPR), as well as,
  in their conditional cash transfer program

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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB
 2. Poverty Statistics   2.1 Targeting
beneficiaries of Programs/Projects NNC and DSWD
used the small area estimates of poverty to
identify priority households for the Pamaskong
Handog of GMA in December 2007 DOLE, DOH, and
the PRC Board of Nursing in the design and/or
implementation of their collaborative
training/deployment Project called Nurses
Assigned in Rural Services (NARS) which aims to
mobilize unemployed registered nurses to the
1,000 poorest municipalities in the country to
improve the delivery of health care services
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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB
 2. Poverty Statistics   2.2 Policy Formulation
and Planning DA used the small area poverty
estimates as one criterion in the identification
of the Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resources
Management Project Compostela Valley Provincial
Government in the revision of their Provincial
Development and Physical Framework Plan NEDA XII
for their study on the socio-economic
reconstruction and development of conflict
affected areas in Mindanao as well as in the
revision of the MTRDP of Region XII
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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB
 2. Poverty Statistics   2.3 Poverty
Monitoring Local government units of Regions I,
IV and VIII in monitoring the attainment of the
MDGs at the local level as basis in setting the
MDG targets (Goal 1) as well as in the
preparation of their MDG action plans Region
VIII NEDA / RDC in the assessment of
interventions being provided to the poorest
municipalities in Eastern Visayas and for future
targeting purposes of the different local
government agencies NNC Region VIII in
assessing the nutritional situation of
municipalities in the region in October 2007
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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB

•  3. Gross Regional Domestic Product
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• 3.1 General Uses
• as inputs in the formulation of annual regional
  development plans and in the preparation of
  annual socio-economic development reports
• as basis in the identification of
  sectors/industries in terms of investment
  promotion and support services
• in the monitoring of the performance of the
  regional economy and its sectors/subsectors
• in analyzing trends/forecasting for planning
  purposes

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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB

•  3. Gross Regional Domestic Product
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• Region I
• Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board
  for estimating minimum wage (i.e., used as one of
  the variables of a model which determines whether
  there is a need for the region to increase its
  minimum wage )
• TESDA as basis in the allocation of funds to
  TESDA regional offices, i.e., regions with higher
  GRDP are allocated lower funds
• DOLE Regional Office 1 as inputs in identifying
  the region's demand for labor for the DOLE's
  Project Jobs Fit

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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB

•  3. Gross Regional Domestic Product
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• Region VI
• DA used in setting targets for corn production
  for the next 5 years. Target setting priorities
  are in terms of expansion in area planted and
  number of cooperators.
• Region VIII
• DA planning and target-setting of the
  agriculture sector
• BIR target-setting in tax collections
• Unimaster Conglomerate (NGO) GVA in
  construction is used in the preparation of
  business proposals on housing

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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB

•  3. Gross Regional Domestic Product
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• Region IX
• DOLE inputs to the regional consultation on the
  Project Jobs Fit The Department of Labor and
  Employment (DOLE) 2020 Vision held on August 19,
  2009 in Zamboanga City.
• Region X
• DTI used in the researches on SMEs of the
  National Economic Research and Business
  Assistance Center

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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB

•  3. Gross Regional Domestic Product
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• Region XI
• Mindanao Economic Development Council inputs in
  plan formulation, rationalization of assistance
  in Mindanao, policy advocacy, and program and
  projects coordination.
• Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  basis in formulating development strategies to
  attract more investments in Davao region
• Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao (AFRIM)
  - for research purposes, particularly in the
  economic performance of the regions in Mindanao

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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB

•  3. Gross Regional Domestic Product
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• Region XII
• RDC XII - Basis in the review and endorsement of
  budget proposals of NIA and DA
• Notre Dame University Research Center used in
  the research study Market Survey Analysis in
  Conflict Affected Areas in Mindanao
• JICA and Bangsamoro Development Agency inputs
  in the formulation of Socio-Economic Development
  Plan for Conflict Affected Areas in Mindanao

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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB

•  4. Philippine Statistical Development
  Program/System of Designated Statistics
• Basis of priority activities to be conducted by
  the agencies in the PSS and basis for the
  provision of budget for statistical activities of
  agencies
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• 5. Statistical Policies
• Provide directions and guidance to the agencies
  in the PSS in data production and data
  dissemination
• 6. Official Concepts and Definitions Used for
  Statistical Purposes
• Used in censuses, surveys, administrative
  records, and in the indicators being generated
  for consistency and for comparability with
  various data sources

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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB

•  7. Statistical Survey Review and Clearance
  System
• Used to determine if there are duplicating
  efforts in data generation in the government
• Used to identify the data requirements of the
  agencies for consideration in the censuses and
  surveys
• Basis in the formulation of standard costs for
  surveys
• 8. Classification Systems
• General use
• Used in censuses, surveys, administrative
  records, and derived statistics to have
  uniformity and comparability of statistics
  generated at the local, national and
  international levels

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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB

• 9. Classification Systems
• Specific uses
• Philippine Standard Industrial Classification
  (PSIC) - used in establishment surveys, System
  of National Accounts, and in the Input-Output
  Table
• Philippine Statistical Commodity Classification
  (PSCC) used in the generation of trade
  statistics and in trade negotiations, used by
  banks and exporters
• Philippine Central Product Classification used
  in the Input-Output Table
• Philippine Standard Occupational Classification
  (PSOC) used in the Census of Population and
  Housing, and in household and establishment
  surveys

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IV. Policy Uses of Statistics Produced by the NSCB

• 10. Classification Systems
• Specific uses
• Philippine Standard Classification of Education
  (PSCED) Department of Education and the
  Commission on Higher Education, academe,
  Technical Education and Skills Development
  Authority (TESDA), and in the labor exchange
  programs
• Philippine Classification of Individual
  Consumption According to Purpose (PCOICOP) used
  in the Family Income and Expenditure Survey and
  Commodity Outlet Survey for the classification of
  goods and services, basket of goods and services
  for the Consumer Price Index
• Philippine Standard Geographic Code (PSGC) -
  used in censuses and surveys, establishment of
  precincts/voting centers, development of
  geographic information systems, updating of maps
  for the granting of the internal revenue
  allocation

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V. Challenges /Concluding Remarks

1. Increased demand for statistics and increasing
   number of stakeholders
2. New indicators beyond GDP, emerging global
   concerns
3. More disaggregation (e.g. gender, ethnicity,
   PWDs, etc.)
4. Improved coverage (sub-regional and local
   statistics)
5. Better at conveying message of statistics
6. Need to improve data support/inputs, e.g. from
   administrative-based reports
7. Need to increase awareness of both users and
   providers of data their appreciation of
   statistics produced and their cooperation in
   supplying accurate information

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V. Challenges /Concluding Remarks

• Issues on more frequent and timely data
• Need to enhance resources of the NSCB and PSS
• Increased support of development partners to
  statistical programs/activities, specifically
  Philippine Statistical Development Program (PSDP)
  2011-2017
• Building better linkages between policy and
  statistics
• Covering not only the NSCB but the PSS

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V. Final Note
Critical Aspects of Official Statistics
are Integrity and relevance And better
still Higher relevance In other
words.. More and more policy uses of statistics
produced. And, NSCB is committed to deliver
quality statistics in support of evidence-based
policy-making, program implementation and
monitoring.
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