MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has declared July 2024 as ‘National Census and Community-based Monitoring System (CBMS) Month.”
The issuance is in support to the 2024 census of population and CBMS (POPCEN-CBMS) from July to September 2024.
In his Proclamation 627, Marcos directed the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), through the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), to lead, coordinate, and supervise the month-long commemoration.
All agencies and instrumentalities of the national government, including government-owned or -controlled corporations and state universities and colleges, are directed to observe the celebration.
All local government units, non-government organizations, professional associations, and the private sector, are also ‘encouraged to render the necessary support and assistance to NEDA and PSA, and to actively participate in the observance of the National Census and CBMS Month.’
Meanwhile, all citizens and residents of the Philippines are encouraged to coope
rate with the PSA and its census enumerators in the 2024 POPCEN-CBMS, by providing truthful and complete information in response to census questions, subject to existing laws, rules and regulations.
The POPCEN-CBMS is a nationwide government undertaking that involves the collection, compilation, evaluation, analysis, publication, and dissemination of data on population count, demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the population, housing statistics, and other relevant data from the barangay level up to the regional scope.
Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin signed the proclamation on July 9, a copy of which was made public Thursday.
Source: Philippines News Agency
