NSO SORSOGON CALLS ON PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THIS YEAR’S CPH

News Release

SORSOGON PROVINCE (May 18) – National Census and Statistic Office Provincial Statistics Officer Elvira O. Apogñol appeals to every household to spare a few time for the census house to house interview which has officially kicked-off on May 17.

Apogñol said that by virtue of the Presidential Proclamation No. 2028, the month of May this year was declared as National Census Month.

“The Census on Population and Housing (CPH), the biggest civilian operation in the country, started on May 17, 2010 with May 1, 2010, 12:01 a.m., as the reference time and will end on June 12, 2010,” she said.

The CPH is an inventory of the total population and housing units in the Philippines and its characteristics. This undertaking provides data necessary in the formulation of policy, planning and program development in the government in determining business opportunities and industry status, in research and development and in further academic studies.

Apogñol bared that NSO Sorsogon Field Office workforce is augmented by 545 enumerators, 110 team supervisors, 25 assistant area supervisors and 27 census area supervisors. Of the 707 census field workers in totality, three-fourths are personnel from the Department of Education and Culture (DepEd) and one-fourth are hired NSO personnel.

“They will be covering 541 barangays and some 596 enumeration areas in the province. All enumerators will be wearing an official 2010 CPH ID during their field work,” she added.

Household data to be gathered were all related to family membership including age, gender, educational attainment and number of household members as well as water sources and waste management, among others.

NSO assures the public that the information gathered will be held in strict confidence as stated in Section 4 of the Commonwealth Act 591 that “no information obtained be divulged to anyone except for bonafide NSO personnel”.

It can be noted that the NSO as mandated by Commonwealth Act 591 authorizes the then Bureau of Census and Statistics, now NSO to conduct by enumeration, sampling or other methods and in consonance with the provision of Executive Order 121 which designated the office as the “major statistical agency responsible for generating general purpose statistics”.

Batas Pambansa Blg. 72 also accorded the NSO to conduct population censuses every ten years beginning in 1980, without prejudice to the undertaking of special censuses on agriculture, industry, commerce, housing and other sectors as may be approved by the National Economic and development Authority (NEDA).

Latest record of NSO dated August 1, 2007, shows that Sorsogon has a total population of 709,673. (BARecebido, PIA Sorsogon)