06 May 2024 – Pasay City. The Philippine Statistics Authority National Capital Region – Provincial Statistical Office V (PSA NCR – PSO V) officially started the distribution of questionnaires for the 2023 Census of Philippine Business and Industry (CPBI) and 2023 Input-Output Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (IOSPBI) to the sample establishments and industries in the four cities of the province, namely: City of Las Piñas, City of Muntinlupa, City of Parañaque, and Pasay City last 06 May 2024.

The 2023 CPBI will be the 17th in the series of economic censuses in the entire Philippines under the provision of “Republic Act No. 10625” otherwise known as the “Philippine Statistical Act of 2013”. It will collect and generate information on the levels, structure, performance, and trends of economic activities of the establishments in the economy for the year 2023. It will also serve as benchmark information for the over-all revision and rebasing to 2023 of the National Accounts.

Meanwhile, the 2023 IOSPBI will be undertaken this 2024 as a rider to the 2023 CPBI which primarily aims to collect detailed information on revenue, expense, and inventories by-product of businesses and industries covered in the 2023 CPBI.

With this, twenty-seven field personnel were deployed in the entire province for the distribution and collection of questionnaires in the sample establishments and industries. As such, the field operation for the 2023 CPBI and 2023 IOSPBI will run from 06 May  to 31 July 2024 and data processing will follow thereafter.  

Relatively, 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 Sel-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ).

Hence, PSA NCR – PSO V calls for support from the sample establishments and industries as data to be collected from the 2023 CPBI and 2023 IOSPBI will generally constitute bases upon which the government and the private sector can formulate policies and evolve economic development plans. 

-Regional Statistics Services Office–NCR PSO V