NSCB Resolution No. 3
Series of 2007
APPROVING THE RETENTION OF THE EXISTING COMPOSITIONS OF SOME TECHNICAL COMMITTEES, INTER-AGENCY COMMITTEES AND TASK FORCES
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), Inter-Agency Committees (IACs) and Task Forces (TFs) to serve as mechanisms for coordination and perform, among others, the following functions:
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To serve as fora for the exchange of views and expertise to resolve technical issues and problems of statistical data users and producers;
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To recommend to the Board measures for improving the manner and form of reporting the statistics, including the techniques and methodologies employed in the production; and
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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, 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, there is a need to reconstitute the membership of the following Committees:
Technical Committee on Statistical Standards and Classifications
(Annex BR-03-2007-01)
Inter-Agency Committee on Health Statistics
(Annex BR-03-2007-02)
and to retain the existing compositions of the following TCs/IACs/TFs:
Technical Committee on Population and Housing Statistics
Technical Committee on Poverty Statistics
Technical Committee on Price Statistics
Technical Committee on the Seasonal Adjustment of Philippine Time Series
Technical Committee on Survey Design
Inter-Agency Committee on Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry Statistics
Inter-Agency Committee on Education Statistics
Inter-Agency Committee on Foreign Direct Investment Statistics
Inter-Agency Committee on Gender Statistics
Inter-Agency Committee on Information and Communications Technology Statistics
Inter-Agency Committee on Labor, Income and Productivity Statistics
Inter-Agency Committee on Science and Technology Statistics
Inter-Agency Committee on Tourism Statistics
Inter-Agency Committee on Trade Statistics
Task Force on the Development of Hunger Index
Task Force on the Integrated System of Establishment Inquiries
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that the Board approve the reconstitution of the Technical Committee on Statistical Standards and Classifications and the Inter-Agency Committee on Health Statistics, and the retention of the existing compositions of the foregoing TCs/IAC/TFs for CY 2007.
Approved this 14th day of February 2007, in Pasig City.
Attested by:
ROMULO A. VIROLA
Secretary General