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Philippine Statistical Development Program, 2005-2010Subnational Human Resource DevelopmentBetter and more innovative training for the technical upgrading of statistical personnel at the regionallevel and in local government units can help achieve the twin objectives of closing the gap between andavailable trained technical manpower resources and upgrading the quality of statistical manpower atthose levels. Among the specific courses of action along this line are: graduate training andprofessionalization; short-term training programs; career system for statistical personnel;seminar/workshops; and conferences and special studies on manpower development.Under the graduate program, statistical workers and faculty members of academic institutions at theregional and subregional levels are provided with opportunities to pursue masteral/ doctoral programs instatistics. Non-degree short-term and general/specialized training courses are small area statistics,exploratory data analysis, estimation methodologies based on incomplete or small-area data, regionalforecasting, model-building for macro-planning, statistical data management, research design andstatistical report writing. The specific training courses depend on the level of the statistical worker, i.e.primary statistician, intermediate statistician and professional statistician, and based on the results of atraining needs assessment conducted by the SCU staff. The Statistical Research Training Center(SRTC) is the lead agency in conducting the non-degree training programs.A career system for statistical personnel at the subnational level is a means for attracting professionalstatisticians into the government /public service and promoting statistics as profession among thesubnational personnel. This would also help reduce the high turnover rate of statisticians in the service.The career system, which includes a Professional Certification Program and accreditation of education,training and experience, may eventually widen the statistical manpower base at the local level.Seminars/workshops are expected to augment previously acquired training and contribute in theprofessionalization of statistical personnel. Likewise, regular conferences are held to update statisticalpersonnel on recent developments in statistics and other fields. Of equal value are observationtours/visits to other countries in order to know more about their styles on subnational statisticalcoordination and development.Continuing studies on manpower development are also done to assess the impact of training programsto provide vital inputs into the design of new and more effective manpower development programs forsubnational statistical personnel. To conduct these studies, the assistance of the academe,international/national research institutions and other professional groups will be solicited.Statistical Research and DevelopmentStatistical methodologies used in the generation and dissemination of local-level statistical data arecontinuously reviewed and assessed. Appropriate, new and innovative methodologies are developedand adopted for more efficient data production and dissemination. These are three specific areasrequiring careful review namely: (a) the system of small area statistics; (b) research and development (R& D) on local statistics; and (c) subnational economic and social accounts and indicator system.The system of small area statistics (SAS) has become indispensable in the light of decentralizedgovernment functions. Activities to make available local-level data from existing national-level statisticalundertakings as well as those intended to generate SAS are therefore given priority. To resolveproblems associated with uncoordinated data production, data generation procedures in the region andlocal levels are analyzed and improved. An efficient monitoring and evaluation system is likewisedeveloped to address these problems which, among others, include data gaps, unreliability, duplication,lack of timeliness and inconsistency of data.Statistical R & D is a critical factor in the furtherance of the desired improvements in the SSS. Amongthe r & d activities at the subnational level are researches on the generation of small-area statistics andthe most cost-effective statistical methodologies, survey instruments, data collection and retrievalprocesses.In response to the demands of local planning and policy formulation, there is a need to supplement andwiden the base for economic analysis by including an economic and social accounts indictor system.This system provides the framework for assessing the quality of available small area statistics andimproving the SSS.6-4 Development of the Subnational Statistical System
Philippine Statistical Development Program, 2005-20101.3 DATA SOURCESStatistics with regional, provincial, city and municipal disaggregation used to be generated by thecentral/regional/field offices of practically all of the national government agencies. These subnationalagencies produce either primary statistics or data by-products of their administrative or regulatoryfunctions.However, with the devolution of the powers and functions of line departments in 1993 on the delivery ofhealth, social welfare and infrastructure services pursuant to the 1991 Local Government Code, thelocal health and social welfare statistics are now generated by the local government units. Thus, thelocal government units at the provincial, city, municipal and barangay levels and many other agencies ofthe government at the subregional level are now a rich source of data generated from administrativerecords or through ad-hoc surveys.Meanwhile, some major statistical agencies still produce primary statistics through censuses and nationwidesurveys. These are the National Statistics Office (NSO) and the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics(BAS). The NSO has comprehensive network or field personnel at the municipal, provincial and regionallevels which conducts, on a regular basis, censuses and surveys of establishments and households.From these activities, demographic, labor force and establishments data are obtained.The BAS, on the other hand, has provincial operation centers supervised by Survey OperationsCoordinating Offices based at the Central office. The BAS conducts agricultural surveys of palay andcorn and commercial and other crops, livestock and poultry, fishery and forestry. There are otheragencies that occasionally collect data through special surveys in answer to a particular need.There are government agencies that compile data as by-products of their administrative or regulatoryfunctions. These agencies include the following various line departments and the bureaus/offices underthem at the subnational level: Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR); Department of Agriculture (DA);Department of Budget and Management (DBM); Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS);Department of Health (DOH); Department of Justice (DOJ); Department of Social Welfare andDevelopment (DSWD); Department of Tourism (DOT); Department of Public Works and Highways(DPWH); Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE); Department of Environment and NaturalResources (DENR); Department of Trade and Industry (DTI); Department of Local Government (DLG);and the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC).The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) compiles The Gross Regional Domestic Product(GRDP) which is the regional dimension of the Philippine System of National Accounts (PSNA). TheGRDP gives an indication of the extent to which the regions are economically developing.II. SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS, 1999-20042.1 STATISTICAL DEVELOPMENTSStrengthened local statistical systemThe need to develop the subnational statistical system has long been recognized even at the onset ofthe decentralization thrust of government. Among the notable activities and outputs in the past planperiod include:• Expansion of Regional/Provincial Statistical Coordination Committees and establishment ofnew NSCB Regional DivisionsAlbeit limited to areas where the NSCB has been provided meager resources to establish andoperate a Regional Unit and NSIC branch, some significant improvements have beenintroduced and institutionalized towards the generation and application of statistics at the locallevels. Thus, the period 1999 to 2004 saw the expansion of the Regional StatisticalCoordination Committees (RSCCs) through the new NSCB Regional Divisions in Regions IV-A, IX, X, and XI. Likewise, the Provincial Statistical Coordination Committees (PrSCCs) inSaranggani and North Cotabato had been established. In 2005, the only remaining areaswithout the NSCB presence were in Regions II, III, IV-B, VII, Caraga and ARMM.Development of the Subnational Statistical System 6-5
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