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[ LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 732, August 21, 1978 ]

AMENDING ITEM NO. 2 OF LETTER OF INSTRUCTION NO. 521 AND ADDING ITEM NO. 8 TO SAND LOI.

TO: The National Economic and Development Authority
The Ministry of Trade
The Ministry of Labor
The Ministry of Education and Culture
The Minis try of Agriculture
The Ministry of Natural Resources
The Central Bank of the Philippines
The National Census and Statistics Office
The National Grains Authority
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
The Bureau of Forest Development, and all
Departments, Bureaus, Offices, Agencies and
Government Instrumentalities, including
government-owned and controlled corporations
involved in the statistical activities of the
Government

WHEREAS, in order to further clarify instructions given in LOI No. 521, Instruction No. 2 is hereby amended to read:
    x  x  x  x  x  x  x

  1. All government agencies planning to undertake new large scale surveys are enjoined to consult with the NEDA, provided that surveys with a sample size of less than 500 may be reviewed by the NEDA on a post factum basis.

    x  x  x  x  x  x  x
In order to remove or minimize confusion in the use of related statistics produced by government agencies, the following instruction is added to LOI 521:
  1. The NEDA, thru its Statistical Coordination Office, shall issue such directives as are necessary to agencies concerned to effect proper allocation of statistical functions and responsibilities including the discontinuance of producing and/or publishing particular statistical series (a) already regularly produced, which may lie considered either duplicative or of very low reliability, or (b) still planned to be produced by agencies concerned.
The NEDA Director-General in hereby authorized to issue the corresponding specific memoranda or circulars for the effective implementation of the aforementioned instructions.

Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of august, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines
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