PRESS RELEASE

CONDUCT OF THE 2023 CENSUS OF PHILIPPINE BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY (CPBI) AND 2023 INPUT-OUTPUT SURVEY OF PHILIPPINE BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY (IOSPBI) IN OCCIDENTAL MINDORO

Date of Release: 20 May 2024

Reference No.: P51-PR2024-014

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Provincial Statistical Office (PSO) of Occidental Mindoro is currently undertaking the nationwide 2023 Census of Philippine Business and Industry (CPBI) and 2023 Input-Output Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (IOSPBI). The data collection started on 6th May 2024 and will end on 31st July 2024.

The CPBI is one of the three national censuses being conducted by PSA per Republic Act No. 10625 and a designated statistical activity as per Executive Order No. 352, series of 1996. The 2023 CPBI aims to collect and generate information on the levels, structure, performance, and trends of economic activities of the formal and informal establishments in the entire country for the year 2023. Meanwhile, the 2023 IOSPBI will be undertaken as a rider to the 2023 CPBI. The purpose of the 2023 IOSPBI is to collect detailed information on the revenue, expense, and inventories by product of businesses and industries covered in the 2023 CPBI to build the input structure and to construct the distribution of output required in the compilation of the 2023 Supply and Use Table (SUT) and 2023 I-O Table.

The PSA Occidental Mindoro encourages the 324 sample establishments in the province to support and cooperate by providing truthful information to authorized PSA Statistical Researchers. Rest assured that the data furnished shall be treated strictly confidential. The PSA also complies with the Data Privacy Act of 2023 and assures that all collected information are processed in accordance with the law and other issuances.

The unit of enumeration for the 2023 CPBI and 2023 IOSPBI is the establishment. Sample establishments will be given multiple options on how they will be able to respond to the survey. They will have the option to either (1) use the online questionnaire available at https://cpbi.psa.gov.ph, (2) utilize an electronic questionnaire in portable document format (PDF), or (3) accomplish the printed copy of the Self-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ).

For further information, please contact the Provincial Statistical Office of Occidental Mindoro at the official telephone number: (043) 711 982 or cellphone number 0965-069-8195 or send an email to occidentalmindoro@psa.gov.ph.
 

(SGD) MARIBEL L. BERNARDO, PhD
Chief Statistical Specialist