Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 155)
Executive Order No. 155 designated Friday, October 1, 1948, as Census Day in the Philippines, mandating the enumeration of the population and collection of social and economic data.
Republic Act No. 36 (Census Act of 1946), as amended by Republic Acts Nos. 202 and 259, are referenced as the legal basis for conducting the census and the designation of Census Day.
The census enumeration shall begin on October 1, 1948, and proceed on consecutive days from daylight to darkness, including Sundays and holidays, until completed, and must be taken not later than November 1, 1948.
The Director of the Census and Statistics has the authority to appoint necessary supervisors, enumerators, and other subordinate personnel for the census work.
Yes, government personnel including provincial, city, and municipal officials and employees, school teachers, police forces, and members of the Philippine Army may be drafted for census work.
Yes, Division Superintendents of Schools, Provincial or City Treasurers, Provincial or City Fiscals, District or City Engineers, District or City Health Officers, and Provincial or City Auditors are ex-officio members of the census boards.
They serve as ex-officio members of provincial or city census boards and help assume full responsibility for census-taking within their territorial jurisdictions.
Yes, the Director of the Bureau of the Census and Statistics shall make use as much as possible of the services of teachers under the Bureau of Public Schools for enumeration and inquiry work whenever practicable.
Drafted government personnel shall render service in the barrio, poblacion, municipality, city, or province where they are actually working unless otherwise directed by superior census authority.
Yes, it amends Executive Order No. 21 dated October 15, 1946, which originally designated Wednesday, January 1, 1947, as Census Day but where the census was not taken.