NSCB Resolution No. 1
Series of 2009

APPROVING THE RETENTION OF THE EXISTING COMPOSITION OF THREE TECHNICAL COMMITTEES AND SEVEN INTERAGENCY COMMITTEES AND THE RECONSTITUTION AND RENAMING OF ONE INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE

WHEREAS, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) was created thru Executive Order No. 121 as the highest policymaking and coordinating body on statistical matters in the Philippine Statistical System;

WHEREAS, to help fulfill its mandate of policymaking and coordination, the NSCB Executive Board creates Technical Committees (TCs), Interagency Committees (IACs) and Task Forces (TFs) to serve as mechanisms for coordination and perform, among others, the following functions:

1. To serve as fora for the exchange of views and expertise to resolve technical issues and problems of statistical data users and producers;
2. To recommend to the Board measures for improving the manner and form of reporting the statistics, including the techniques and methodologies employed in its production;  and
3. To recommend to the Board an efficient workable scheme for the allocation of agency responsibilities in the production of statistics.

WHEREAS, membership in IACs and TFs depends on agency sectoral concerns, while that in TCs requires individual expertise;

WHEREAS, the TCs, IACs and TFs must focus on responding to critical and imperative requirements of the stakeholders of the Philippine Statistical System;

WHEREAS, to ensure:  (1) enhanced effectiveness and efficiency of the TCs/IACs/TFs, particularly in the performance of the functions for which they were created;  (2)  the needed expertise in the resolution of problems/issues at hand; (3)  constant interaction and coordination among the member agencies and individual members;  and  (4)  continuance of TC/IAC/TF-initiated activities, the NSCB Technical Staff reviews the composition of each TC/IAC/TF at the start of every year and recommends reconstitution, if deemed necessary;

WHEREAS, guided by the foregoing, there is a need to retain the existing composition of the following TCs/IACs:

Technical Committee on Price Statistics
Technical Committee on Statistical Standards and Classifications
Technical Committee on the Seasonal Adjustment of Philippine Time Series

Interagency Committee on Foreign Direct Investment Statistics
Interagency Committee on Gender Statistics
Interagency Committee on Health and Nutrition Statistics
Interagency Committee on Information and Communication Technology Statistics
Interagency Committee on Science and Technology Statistics
Interagency Committee on Tourism Statistics
Interagency Committee on Trade Statistics

and to reconstitute the membership of the Interagency Committee on Labor, Income and Productivity Statistics (IACLIPS) and rename it into the Interagency Committee on Labor and Productivity Statistics (IACLPS) in view of the transfer of all income-related concerns, previously assigned to the IACLIPS, to the TC on Poverty Statistics, as also recommended by the IACLIPS;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that the Board approve the:

(1) retention of the existing composition of the foregoing three TCs and seven IACs for CY 2009 (Annex BR-01-2009-01);  and

(2) reconstitution and renaming of the Interagency Committee on Labor, Income and Productivity Statistics into the Interagency Committee on Labor and Productivity Statistics (Annex BR-01-2009-02);

BE IT RESOLVED FURTHER, that the above TCs/IACs shall prioritize outputs that will address the more urgent statistical concerns such as improving the quality of critical indicators on the current economic crisis.

Approved this 11th day of February 2009, in Pasig City.

Attested by:

ROMULO A. VIROLA
Secretary General