REQUIRING THE TAKING OF AN INTEGRATED CENSUS OF POPULATION AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN MAY 1975 AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 650
• Sections: 10

Preamble

WHEREAS, more recent census data on the Philippine

population is required for national, social and economic planning and

for the formulation if national and sectoral policies on manpower

development and utilization, health, education, housing and population

control, etc;

WHEREAS, national censuses are the primary sources of basic

data in population that could adequately meet these needs;

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;

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 on-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;

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.

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:

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 and

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 boards 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 Board may call upon any

department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the government

for any assistance in the performance of their functions.

SEC.

2. Census Day. — The first day of May, 1975 is hereby

designated as Census Day from which date the census field enumeration

shall commence 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.

SEC. 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.

SEC. 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 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.

Section 5 Population count.

SEC. 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.

SEC. 6. Confidentiality of census data. — Data

furnished the National Census and Statistics Office shall not be used as

evidence in any court or public office, 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.

SEC. 7. Punishable acts. — Any person who refuses

access to his premises of duly appointed census enumerators; or refuses

to be 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.

SEC. 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.

Section 9 Appropriation.

SEC. 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. 3 paragraph 38 of

Presidential Decree No. 503.

Section 10 Repealing clause.

SEC. 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.

Done in the City of Manila, this 31st day of January, in the

year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-five.

(Sgd.)

FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.)

ROBERTO V. REYES

Acting Executive Secretary