NSCB Resolution No. 13
Series of 2009

ENDORSING TO CONGRESS,
THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT,
THE APPROVAL OF THE
2010 CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING BUDGET

WHEREAS, Batas Pambansa Blg. 72 provides for the taking of an integrated census every ten years beginning in 1980, in accordance with the plans to be prepared by the then National Census and Statistics Office, 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 2010 CPH, the amount of PHP2.8 billion is needed for the census activities in the year 2010, broken down as follows:

            Expenditure Item                                          Proposed Budget
                                                                                   (in million pesos)

            Personal Services                                             PHP       _-_  _
            MOOE                                                                           2,785_
            Capital Outlay                                                                   88_

            TOTAL (for the year 2010 activities)                PHP      2,873   

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that the Board favorably endorse to Congress, through the Department of Budget and Management, the approval of the 2010 CPH budget for the year 2010 in accordance with the recommendation of the NSO.

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

Attested by:

ROMULO A. VIROLA
Secretary General