NSCB Resolution No. 12
Series of 2009

DECLARING MAY 2010 AS NATIONAL CENSUS MONTH

WHEREAS, Batas Pambansa Blg. 72 provides for the taking of an integrated census every 10 years beginning in 1980, in accordance with the plans to be prepared by the then National Census and Statistics Office (NCSO), now the National Statistics Office (NSO);

WHEREAS, pursuant to this legal mandate, the 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH) will be conducted in May 2010, with May 1 as reference date;

WHEREAS, the 2010 CPH is designed to take an inventory of the total population and housing units in the country and collect information about their characteristics;

WHEREAS, to ensure the successful conduct of the census, the citizenry must be called upon to support and cooperate in the 2010 CPH;

WHEREAS, in each of the previous censuses, a Presidential Proclamation was issued to highlight the significance and importance of a census undertaking;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that the Board favorably endorse to the Office of the President the issuance of a Presidential Proclamation entitled, “Declaring May 2010 as National Census Month” (Annex BR-12-20090706-01).

Approved this 6th day of July 2009, in Pasig City.

Attested by:

ROMULO A. VIROLA
Secretary General