WHEREAS,
more recent census data on the Philippine population is required for
national, social and economic planning and for the formulation of
national and sectoral policies on manpower development and utilization,
health, education, housing and population control, etc;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, national censuses are the primary sources of basic data on
population that could adequately meet these needs;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the last census of the Philippines conducted on May 6, 1970,
would not truly reflect the changes brought about by recent government
programs adopted to accelerate the socio-economic development of the
country;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, to provide economic planners and administrators with the data
needed for national planning and to properly evaluate the progress made
in various fields and measure the impact of non-going projects of the
governments, as well as provide the "barangays" with the latest data on
their population to effect desired changes and reforms in the social,
economic and political structures within their jurisdiction, a total
enumeration of the population is necessary;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines by
virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby decree
that a national census be undertaken in May 1975, in accordance with
the plans drawn by the National Census and Statistics Office, in
coordination with the National Economic and Development Authority, and
such census shall cover an enumeration of the population and their
economic activities.
Section 1. Presidential Census Coordinating Board
and Provincial City and Municipal Census Boards. — For the systematic
coordination of government agencies and instrumentalities involved in
the conduct of the 1975 Integrated Census of Population and Economic
Activities, a Presidential Census Coordinating Board to be composed of
the following, is hereby created:cralaw:red
The Executive Secretary Chairman
The Director General of the
National Economic and
Development Authority Vice-Chairman
The Secretary of National
Defense Member
The Secretary of Labor Member
The Secretary of Education
and Culture Member
The Secretary of Public Works,
Transportation &
Communications Member
The Secretary of Department
of Public Highways Member
The Secretary of Agriculture Member
The Secretary of Natural
Resources Member
The Secretary of Local
Government and Community
Development Member
The Board shall issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary to
successfully carry out this national undertaking.
As a counterpart of the Presidential Census Coordinating Board at the
local government level, there shall be established a Provincial, City
or Municipal Census Board in each province, city and municipality, as
the case may be, which shall provide such facilities and assistance as
shall, be required by the National Census and Statistics Office. The
Provincial Census Board shall be composed of the Provincial Governor,
as Chairman, and the Division Superintendent of Schools, Senior
District Highway Engineer, PC Provincial Commander, Provincial
Development Officer and the Provincial Agriculturist, as members. The
City Census Board shall be composed of the City Mayor, as Chairman, and
the City Superintendent of Schools, City Engineer and the City
Development Officer, as members. The Municipal Census Board shall be
composed of the Municipal Mayor, as Chairman, and the
Supervisor/Principal Teacher, Municipal Agriculturist, and the
Municipal Development Officer, as members.
The Executive Officer of the Presidential Census Coordinating Board
shall be the Executive Director of the National Census and Statistics
Office while that of the local board shall be the Provincial Census
Officer for provinces and the Municipal Census Officer/Census Assistant
or the City/Municipal Census Supervisor for cities and municipalities.
The Boards may call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or
instrumentality of the government for any assistance in the performance
of their functions.
Section 2. Census Day. — The first day of May, 1975
is hereby designated as Census Day from which date the census field
enumeration shall commerce and continue until every individual in the
country shall have been enumerated. The collection of data will be by
enumeration and the respondent shall be the head or any responsible
member of the household.
Section 3. Participation of various government
agencies and instrumentalities. — All heads of departments, bureaus,
offices and agencies of the government, government-owned and controlled
corporations, and provincial, city and municipal officials, including
the barangay chairman, are hereby enjoined to organize seminars,
meetings and open forums on the forthcoming nationwide census operation
and to make available their facilities as well as the services of such
personnel as may hereafter be requested or requisitioned by the
National Census and Statistics Office to insure the success of the
census.
Section 4. Enumeration personnel and government
employees drafted for census work. — Whenever feasible, public school
teachers and college students under the Youth Civic Action Program
(YCAP) shall be utilized for enumeration work; in which case a public
school teacher shall be paid an honorarium not to exceed P150.00 plus
service credits equivalent to the number of days engaged in census
work; a college student shall be given an allowance not to exceed
P100.00 for services as census enumerator; government employees whose
services are drafted for census work shall be entitled to such
allowances as shall be prescribed by the President Census Coordinating
Board, payable from census funds. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 5. Population count. — Before the end of
1975, a count of the population by province, municipality, and barangay
shall be published by the National Census and Statistics Office, which
population count, upon proclamation by the President of the
Philippines, shall be considered official for all purposes, until the
final count has been determined from the processed census returns.
Section 6. Confidentiality of census data. — Data
furnished the National Census and Statistics Office shall not be used
as evidence in any court or public officer, either as evidence for or
against any individual; nor shall such data be divulged to any person
except to authorized employees of the National Census and Statistics
Office, acting in the performance of their duties; nor shall such data
be published except in the form of summaries or statistical tables in
which no reference to an individual shall appear. Any person violating
the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more
than five hundred pesos or by imprisonment for not more than six
months, or by both.
Section 7. Punishable acts. — Any person who refuses
access to his premises of duly appointed census enumerators; or refuses
to the interviewed, or fails or refuses to furnish the information
called for in the census questionnaire; or knowingly gives data or
information which shall prove to be materially untrue in any particular
shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than five
hundred pesos or by imprisonment of not more than six months, or by
both.
Section 8. Cooperation of the mass media and the
general public. — The cooperation of the various types of media in
giving the 1975 census as wide a publicity as possible to promote the
attainment of this Decree is enjoined, FURTHER; The general public is
enjoined to give true and accurate information to census enumerators to
insure the reliability of the data collected. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 9. Appropriation. — the Commissioner of the
Budget shall provide the National Census and Statistics Office with the
amount of NINETEEN MILLION PESOS (P19,000,000.00) or so much thereof as
is necessary to undertake the 1975 Integrated Census of Population and
Economic Activities, including the processing, tabulation and
publication of the census results in pursuance to Sec. 4, paragraph 28
of Presidential Decree No. 503.
Section 10. Repealing clause. — All laws and
executive orders, or parts thereof, contrary to or inconsistent with
the provisions of this Decree are hereby repealed, amended or modified
accordingly.
Section 11. Effectivity. — This decree shall take
effect and be implemented immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 31st day of January in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-five.
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