As a designated statistics under Executive Order (EO) No. 352 (System of Designated Statistics) dated 01 July 1996, the Occupational Wages Survey (OWS) is recognized as one of the most important statistical activities in the country that will generate critical data as inputs to decision-making of the government sector and the private sector as well.

The stability and growth of a country’s economy hinges on its ability to produce goods and services for both domestic and international use. Labor represents an important factor of production, hence, the improvement of the quality of the labor force, and efforts to make it more productive and responsive to growth are necessary for the development of the economy. A clear knowledge and understanding of the size, composition, and other characteristics of the segment of the population is a big step in this direction. A continuing supply of the data on labor force is indispensable to national and local development planning.

The Monthly Labor Force Survey (LFS) is a nationwide survey of households conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) to gather data on the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the population.

The System of Health Accounts (SHA) 2011 provides a standard for classifying health expenditures according to three (3) axes: consumption, provision, and financing. It gives guidance and methodological support for the compilation of health accounts, which seeks to describe the health care system from an expenditure perspective both for international and national purposes. The SHA 2011 is the international standard for health accounting (OECD, Eurostat, and WHO 2011) which presents a multi-dimensional approach to analyze the structure of health in a country.

The Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) is a standard statistical framework and the main tool for the economic measurement of tourism. It was developed by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat), and the United Nations Statistics Division. The Tourism Satellite Account: Recommended Methodological Framework 2008 (TSA: RMF 2008) provides the updated common conceptual framework for constructing a TSA. It adopts the basic system of the System of National Accounts 2008 (SNA 2008), the international standard for a systematic summary of national economic activity from a functional perspective2. The TSA provides information on the macroeconomic aggregates describing the size and contribution of tourism to the economy. This also provides detailed data on expenditure of visitors, detailed production accounts of tourism industries, and employment in tourism industries.

The Philippine National Health Accounts (PNHA) provides information on health care spending in the country. It provides data in determining whether the aggregate health care spending from all sources is adequate to meet basic requirements and identifies probable areas as inefficiencies in allocating health care resources.

The first official methodology for the poverty assessment in the Philippines was adopted in 1987. Three major refinements in the official methodology for measuring poverty have been made – in 1992, 2003/2005/2006 and 20 11.

In 2017 the Philippines Statistical Authority (PSA) implemented Iris, an automated software program which assigns codes from the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD-10) to death records, and assists in the selection of an underlying cause of death. This replaces the previous process where mortality coding rules were applied manually.

Vital statistics are derived from information obtained at the time when the occurrences of vital events and their characteristics are inscribed in a civil register. Vital acts and events are the births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and all such events that have something to do with an individual's entrance and departure from life together with the changes in civil status that may occur to a person during his lifetime. Recording of these events in the civil register is known as vital or civil registration and the resulting documents are called vital records.

The 2015 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) is a nationwide survey of households undertaken every three years. It is the main source of data on family income and expenditure, which include among others, levels of consumption by item of expenditure as well as sources of income in cash and in kind. The results of FIES provide information on the levels of living and disparities in income of Filipino families, as well as their spending patterns.