NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE 2001 ANNUAL REPORT

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Highlights of the Year Former NSO Administrator Awarded For Exemplary Public Service In July, Ateneo de Manila University conferred its first GOVERNMENT SERVICE AWARD on outgoing Administrator Tomas P. Africa. He was awarded for “for inspiring creativity and volunteerism and for exemplifying what a civil servant should be-one who performs his day to day duties with fidelity and integrity--thus providing a living model of an honest public servant.” Tomas Africa is an outstanding exception to the view that the best and the brightest in the land often end up working in private corporations or opting to go abroad. An activist in his college days, Tomas Africa transferred the site for struggle from the streets of Mendiola to government offices where the concern and passion he displayed for the poor and the oppressed shaped his work as an Administrator, especially as the head of the National Statistics Office. Tomas Africa elected to work in government as a public servant and it is in this field that he spent most of his professional life. He joined the National Economic Development Authority in 1973, three years after graduation from U.P. At the NEDA, he directed the monitoring and evaluation of the budgets and work programs of statistical development projects, and coordinated the development and maintenance of the management information system in the office. The Government Service Award was created by Ateneo de Manila University on February 7, 1997 to recognize the fundamental role of government service as a legitimate career option. It is the University’s public acclamation of an individual or groups of individuals who serve with distinction in the executive, legislative, judicial branches or constituional bodies of government at the national and local level. Tomas P. Africa, Administrator of the National Statistics Office is the first recipient of the Ateneo Government Service Award. NSO staff throw a send-off party for outgoing NSO Administrator Tomas P. Africa, who was to assume a UN post in Tokyo, Japan. A few years later, he also Director of the Statistical Programs and Resource Management Office of the National Statistical Development Program. In 1989, Tomas Africa was named Administrator of the National Statistics Office and the ex-officio Civil Registrar General. When he became administrator in 1989, he introduced a series of innovations that would greatly improve the running of the office as well as the condition of its Five-Year Development Plan. It was the first time that the organization, with the active participation of middle management, visualized its role in society and decided how it would play that role. In 1998, the NSO become the first national agency to win the Philippine Quality Award for Commitment, largely because of Tomas Africa’s emphasis on quality management as a tool for improving the processing of statistical data as well as general operations of the organization. As a manager, Tomas Africa has always believed that the employee’s welfare must come first. He pushed for the regularization of over 600 casual employees, some of whom had been with the office for more than 12 years. Despite opposition from top management, he signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the NSO Union of Statistics Employees in 1989. 6 <strong>2001</strong> NSO Annual Report
Innovations of the Year Improving Poverty Monitoring Survey The FIES is a survey conducted by the NSO every three years since 1985. It is the major source of data for official poverty estimates in the country. In 1998, the NSO realizing the need to supplement poverty monitoring data and activities, initiated the conduct of the Annual Poverty Indicator Survey (APIS) with support from the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme. To further improve on these poverty monitoring surveys, the Philippine Government, through NSO, solicited technical assistance (TA) from the Asian Development Bank in December 1999. The TA also seeks the establishment of a research and development unit in NSO that will be responsible for sustained enhancement of survey sampling and operations. As part of the project, a team of international consultants and NSO counterparts investigated the questionnaire design, field and data processing operations of the FIES conducted in 1994 and 1997, and the APIS held in 1998 and 1999 to determine the possibility of linking the surveys for more indepth poverty analysis and research. Moreover, the team targets to develop better survey strategies, improving on the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of conducting other household surveys, and recommendations to minimize non-sampling errors in future. Philippines forged partnership with Australia for better industry statistics The Philippine government, represented by the National Statistics Office (NSO), the primary statistical arm of the government, recently entered into an Activity Agreement with the Government of Australia through the Philippines-Australia Governance Facility (PAGF) for the improvement of the methodology for the Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI NSO partners with Australia for better Philippine industry statistics through the PAGF. Prior to the signing of the Activity Agreement, a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was also entered into between the NSO and the Statistical Research and Training Center (SRTC), represented by its Executive Director Gervacio Selda. The MOA formalizes the commitment of both parties to carry out their respective responsibilities as stipulated in the Activity Agreement, with the NSO as the lead agency. The SRTC is the research and training arm of the Philippine Statistical System (PSS). As part of the project, an Australian consultant worked with the NSO counterpart team, initially analyzing the current survey to find areas of improvement. Part of the project also is to pilot the Decentralized Register of Establishments in a local government, with Pampanga as the pilot area. By year end, the accomplishments of the project included identification and evaluation of data requirements and needs of data users; evaluation of the current questionnaire design of Annual Survey of Establishments (ASE); and assessment of the current ASPBI design. <strong>2001</strong> NSO Annual Report 7
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