Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 352)
The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB), attached to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), is responsible for establishing the system of designated statistics.
The NSCB serves as the policy-making and coordinating body of the decentralized Philippine Statistical System.
Implementing agencies are required to provide the Office of the President through the NSCB the results of designated censuses, surveys, and administrative reports regularly and ensure dissemination of the data to the general public within the designated timeframe.
The implementing agencies are responsible for carrying out improvements in the design for generating designated statistics in accordance with their respective mandates.
Any modification, addition, or deletion to the list must be approved through a Board Resolution by the NSCB in accordance with its implementing guidelines.
The NSCB is authorized to issue implementing guidelines consistent with EO 352 and is responsible for monitoring the system’s implementation to achieve the objectives of the Executive Order.
The NSCB regularly conducts consultations with data users and producers to update the list of designated statistics to respond to emerging data needs.
Funding is provided through the General Appropriations Act (GAA) from the year following the EO’s approval and thereafter, with immediate requirements taken from available appropriations in the current year’s GAA, subject to budgetary rules.
Executive Order No. 352 took effect immediately upon its approval on July 1, 1996.