NSCB Resolution No. 14
Series of 2009

ENJOINING AGENCIES TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE
TO THE NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE FOR THE CONDUCT OF THE
2010 CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING

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, 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, the assistance provided by other government agencies to the NSO was instrumental to the success of previous census undertakings;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that the Board enjoin all the agencies enumerated in Annex BR-14-20090706-01 to provide assistance to the NSO in connection with the 2010 CPH;

BE IT RESOLVED FURTHER that the assistance include, but not be limited to, those identified in said Annex and that such assistance be on a cost-sharing basis as may be deemed appropriate by the parties concerned.

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

Attested by:

ROMULO A. VIROLA
Secretary General