BY: HAZEL F. GLORIA
CEBU CITY, March 4 (PIA) --- The
National Statistics Office (NSO), along with the National Statistical
Coordination Board (NSCB), Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics (BLES),
and the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) shall be known as the Philippine
Statistics Authority (PSA) starting December 29, 2013.
NSO-7 Regional Director Engr. Ariel
Florendo said the creation of PSA is to strengthen the Philippine Statistical
System, otherwise known as the Philippine Statistical Act of 2013 through Republic Act 10625.
Florendo also explained that the
merging of the four major statistical agencies will eliminate the
duplication of services and to improve its public service.
The objectives of the said ACT are to
rationalize and promote efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of
statistical services; to maintain an integrated statistical system
characterized by independence, objectivity and integrity so as to enhance responsiveness
to the requirements of equitable national development; to promote the orderly
development of a statistical system capable of providing timely, accurate and
useful data for the government and the public; and to support decentralization
through the establishment of the statistical infrastructure necessary to
service the statistical needs of local development planning.
A series of consultative meetings are
being conducted by the organization.
In July, they will come up with
the restructuring of personnel.
Florendo said that for the meantime, they are still in the
transition process of the organization and he is hoping that by December, PSA
will be fully implemented.(rmn/HFG/PIA-7)