• Institutional frameworks and principles (e.g., UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics); legal frameworks; statistical policies (PSA Board); Philippine Statistical Development Program (PSDP); organizational and legal aspects of the PSS (e.g., confidentiality, privacy, and security of data); coordination mechanisms; advocacy and promotion of statistics; statistical financing; 

• Statistical frameworks; methodologies and standards for data collection and processing (for surveys and censuses and administrative data); development and maintenance of various statistical registers/master sample (household, business, establishment, enterprise, confidentiality and security); statistical standards and classification systems; quality assurance mechanisms; innovation and enhancement of processes; monitoring and evaluation.

Chapter 2.1 – Health and Nutrition Statistics

• Health and nutrition statistics (women’s health, child and maternal care, fertility, family planning, breastfeeding and micronutrient supplementation, healthcare utilization and financing) 

• Mortality related statistics (infant, child and maternal mortality) including life expectancy, health status, health and safety, health determinants (including lifestyle, nutrition, smoking, alcohol abuse), nutritional status, food consumption, COVID-19 related health statistics, cause of illness and death, special diseases (e.g., AIDS), disabilities

• Food insecurity, recommended energy intake, wasting, stunting, malnutrition

• Water, sanitation and hygiene

• Statistics on education (participation, literacy, learner performance assessments, Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and adult learning, lifelong learning, schools and institutions, and human and financial resources invested in education. 

• Statistics on culture under different cultural and related domains, such as cultural and natural heritage, performance and celebration, visual arts and artisan products, books and press, audio, visual, broadcast and interactive media, creative services, tourism, and sports and recreation. 

• Population and demographic statistics including population structures and growth, families/household statistics, population density and population growth rate.

• Population Projections

• Housing Statistics including housing needs and demands, dwellings, human settlements, urban renewal

• Migration statistics (immigration, emigration, in-migration)

Chapter 3.1 – Income, Poverty and Hunger Statistics

• Measures of poverty, living conditions, inequality, poverty covering economic and social aspect (e.g., Human Development Index, Multidimensional Poverty Index)

• Statistics on household income and expenditure from household viewpoint (all types of income and expenditure, income distribution, non-monetary income, income transfers received and paid, income or expenditure-based measures of poverty, poverty threshold, poverty incidence) hunger index, household wealth and debts
   

• Statistics on labor force and labor market

• Employment, unemployment, underemployment including the working poor, and economically active population

• Statistics on labor conditions, health and safety at work (accidents at work, occupational injuries and diseases, 
  work-related health problems), working time and other working conditions

• Industrial Relations 

• Job vacancies and job creation, demand and supply imbalances;

• Wages and hours of work, e.g., wage rates, earnings, labor cost, both for structural and short-term statistics.

• Emerging concerns, e.g., child labor, informal employment, green jobs, digital workers, work-from-home/telecommuting
   

• Agriculture, forestry and fisheries (AFF) (e.g., farm structure, agricultural trade, agriculture and fishery labor, crop, animal and fishery production, agro-industries, food production and safety, fishery resource assessment, land distribution)

• Statistics on land size, land use (i.e., per crop or livestock, aquaculture), number of farmers per type of commodity and by type of land ownership (i.e., tenant, landowner), costs and returns of accounts

• Statistics on trade, industry and services data and indicators that describe and measure the characteristics, activities and outputs of the economic units in the sector

• Domestic and international transactions which includes establishment data by sector (industry and service); international trade (trade-in-goods and trade-in-services); domestic trade (distributive trade, wholesale and retail trade); commodity flow; and other related indicators such as productivity, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME), foreign trade index, retail trade index (disaggregation of data and indicators are regional and to some extent at the provincial level)

• Tourism Statistics - data on tourism products and their suppliers and data on visitors or the consumers of tourism products. 

• Statistics on visitor activities ((e.g., tourist arrivals/departures, length of stay, accommodation, expenditures (including expenditures for meetings, incentives, conventions, and exhibitions), purpose of visit, prices for tourist services)) associated to different forms of tourism (inbound, domestic and outbound) with foreign and local breakdowns

• Tourism-related industries, infrastructure, and employment

• Tourism satellite accounts

• Tourism collective consumption

• Social and environmental impacts of tourism

Chapter 8.1 – Science, Technology and Innovation Statistics

• Statistics on research and development (R&D) activities, scientific and technical education and training, scientific and technological services, innovation activities, 

• Philippine S&T competitiveness and innovation indicators  

Chapter 8.2 – Information Society Statistics

• Statistics on information society which constitute the information and communication technology (ICT) sector:

  • ICT goods and services (products)    ICT goods and services (products)

  • ICT infrastructure (investment and services)

  • ICT producers (industries)

  • ICT users and uses (e.g., internet and e-commerce, e-government, e-learning, broadcast communications, digital transformation etc.)

  • Social and economic factors affecting ICT use and development 
     

• Statistics on foreign and domestic investments (e.g., statistics on non-residents’ direct investments, portfolio investments and other investments in the Philippines, all those relating to investments of Filipino nationals in the domestic economy)
• Inward or outward investments - all investment entering the Philippines from other countries or economies and investments of Philippine residents in other countries or economies. 

• Gender equality and gender responsiveness
• Women’s empowerment and their living conditions and role in the society
• Situation of special population groups like women, children, and youth
• Violence against women and children, among others. 

Chapter 11.1 Macroeconomic Statistics

• National Accounts which includes quarterly and annual national accounts, regional and provincial accounts, satellite accounts, institutional sector accounts.
• Balance of payments and International Investment Position Statistics, Flow of Funds, Balance sheet approach, consumer and business expectation surveys.
• Measures of progress of society and well-being
• Other macroeconomic accounts statistics and indicators

Chapter 11.2 Price Statistics

• Price indices such as producer/farm price index, wholesale price index, retail price index, consumer price index, and foreign trade price index.
• Other relevant price statistics used in the analysis of wage, fiscal, monetary and trade policies.

Chapter 11.3 Monetary, Financial, and Government Finance Statistics

• Money, banking, and financial market statistics (e.g., flow of funds, balance sheet approach, bank lending statistics, monetary aggregates, other financial corporations, interest rates, financial system resources)
• Financial soundness indicators (e.g., capital adequacy, asset quality, liquidity)
• Financial inclusion indicators (e.g., access to and usage of financial products and services)
• Government finance, fiscal and public sector statistics (e.g., debt, surplus/deficit, revenues, taxes, and expenditures)

Chapter 12.1 – Energy and Water Statistics

• Energy demand and supply, sources of energy such as petroleum, renewable energy, and alternative fuels
• Energy balances, energy mix, power generation, energy efficiency and conservation
• Plans, programs, and projects related to energy demand and supply
• Water supply and demand; water collection, treatment and distribution; and wastewater and sewerage
• Plans, programs, and projects related to water demand and supply

Chapter 12.2 – Transportation and Infrastructure Statistics

• Statistics on various transport (air, rail, road, railway and maritime); transport infrastructure (roads, bridges, airports), equipment, traffic flows, personal mobility, safety, transport accidents, energy consumption related to transport, transport enterprises (public transport), passengers and freight transport (including value of goods and services transported within the Philippines), transport sector trends, road traffic accidents (including death due to traffic accidents); collection of transport infrastructure accessed by persons with disabilities; 
• Statistics on physical and social infrastructure including construction (e.g., on public works; agriculture-related infrastructures such as irrigation; education and health facilities; waste management; housing construction)

• Statistics on good governance and transparency (political and administrative dimensions)

• Corruption statistics, election statistics

• Statistics on voting turnout, participation in political and other community activities (trade union membership, social dialogue, civil society, social capital, etc.)

• Natural resource statistics such as land and soil, water (freshwater, marine, and coastal), timber, minerals and fossil energy, biological resources; forest, biodiversity, and protected areas; material flow analysis 

• Statistics on environmental protection, natural resource management, sustainable development

• Statistics on environmental health, environmental impact of economic activities, environmental quality monitoring

• Natural capital accounts (natural resource asset accounts, ecosystem accounts), Environmental-economic accounts (flow accounts, environmental activity accounts)

• Statistics relating to disaster risk reduction and management (disaster occurrences, background statistics and exposure to hazards, human impacts, material impacts, direct environmental impacts, disaster risk reduction expenditure)

• Statistics relating to climate change (drivers, impacts, vulnerability, mitigation and adaptation)

Human Resource Development

• Management and development of human resources (e.g., training, recruitment of statistics graduates, promotion of statistical profession as a career path as in universities’ and colleges’ curricula, professional/career program for statistician); cross-posting

Statistical Research and Development

• Research and development, statistical research agenda

• Institutional development in the PSS (e.g., organizational and staffing strategy, performance evaluation of statistical agencies and units in government); engagement of users/stakeholders (i.e., capacity building of data users and data providers)

• Practical use of combining multiple data sources (including big data, citizen generated data, etc.) with the purpose of producing experimental and official statistics: methodological issues, covering quality concerns and fitness for purpose; legal and other issues in respect of access to data source

• Improvement in data dissemination and warehousing (includes policies, methods, design and organization of output databases and data warehouses, microdata sharing, data dissemination thru the Internet, standards in data/metadata presentation, infographics, data visualization); statistical software; archiving; various modalities of information management and dissemination; data ecosystem, open data, administrative data, registers
• Management and development of technological resources (e.g., electronic data processing, electronic data exchange, ICT strategies, archiving and warehousing facilities, web development, database development, GIS infrastructures)
• physical security of data

• Civil registration systems, documents, guidelines and processes of vital events (births, deaths, and marriages) to generate accurate and relevant vital statistics

• Statistics on vital events: births, deaths, and marriages

• Subnational statistical policies, timeliness of release and collection of data and statistics

• Coordination of the local statistical system

• Generation of subnational statistics/local-level data, regional accounts

• Compliance of LGUs and regional agencies to statistical policies, established methodological frameworks, standards and classification systems

• Localization of SDGs

• Rural development, regional accounts, regional typologies, and regional disparities

• Coordination of implementation of CBMS

• Generation of local level data and statistics from CBMS

• Utilization of CBMS for planning and implementation of social protection programs

• Capacity development on statistics for local government units

• Promotion of international cooperation in statistics through sharing of experiences, practices, and expertise in statistics as well as adherence to international commitments and adoption of internationally-recognized statistical principles, declarations, and best practices; 

• UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (UNFPOS) -Bilateral and multilateral cooperation in statistics contributes to the improvement of systems of official statistics in all countries

• Commitments: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development, ASEAN Community Statistical System (ACSS) Strategic Plan 2016-2025, Regional Action Framework on CRVS 2015-2024, Brunei Darussalam–Indonesia–Malaysia–Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) Vision

• Key coordination mechanisms: UN Statistical Commission (STATCOM), United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) Committee on Statistics, UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) - Governing Council, ASEAN Community Statistical System Committee (ACSS) 

• Participation in high-level, expert group, and working group meetings; training courses, workshops, and other 
  capacity-building activities; attendance at international conferences

• Response to international data requests and questionnaires

• Strengthened bilateral and multilateral cooperation on statistics

• Monitoring of foreign-funded statistical projects.

• Strategic partnerships with private sector data producers within the country

• Compilation and monitoring of indicators/data to address SDG targets
• Study mechanisms on the possibility of using data from the private sector, CSOs and academe for SDG monitoring taking into consideration the need for quality assurance
• Monitoring of Public Investment on the Achievement of the SDGs
• Enhancement of SDG Webpage
• Guidelines on the Monitoring of the Sub-National SDG Indicators
• Integration of the LNOB Analysis in the Estimation of SDG Pace of Progress