NSCB Resolution No. 3
Series of 2001

DECLARING JULY 2002 AS AGRICULTURE AND
FISHERIES CENSUS MONTH

WHEREAS, Commonwealth Act No. 591 authorizes the Bureau of the Census and Statistics, now renamed under Executive Order (EO) No. 121 as the National Statistics Office (NSO), "to prepare for and undertake all censuses of population, agriculture, industry and commerce"; 

WHEREAS, Section 1 of Batas Pambansa Blg. 72 provides for the undertaking of special censuses on u>agriculture, industry, commerce, housing and other sectors as may be approved by the National Economic and Development Authority;

WHEREAS, EO 352, otherwise known as the Designation of Statistical Activities That Will Generate Critical Data for Decision-Making of the Government and the Private Sector, issued on July 1, 1996, designates the conduct of the Census of Agriculture and Fisheries (CAF) every ten years by the NSO with the objective of providing government planners and policy makers with data on which to base their plans for the country's development;

WHEREAS, a Census of Agriculture and Fisheries, 2002 CAF, will be conducted in July 2002;

WHEREAS, to ensure the successful conduct of the census, the citizens must be called to support and cooperate in the 2002 CAF;

WHEREAS, in 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 the Proclamation Order entitled "Declaring July 2002 as Agriculture and Fisheries Census Month" hereby marked as "ANNEX A".

Approved this 6th day of April 2001, in Pasig City.