The country's current statistical system needs an overhaul to serve its purpose as a data producing body of the government which can offer efficient and updated information useful in policy-making, opposition Senator Chiz Escudero said in a press release from his office yesterday.

Escudero said he wants to create a national organization which shall be primarily responsible for all national surveys and act as a central databank for national accounts.

Through Senate Bill No. 2191 or the Philippine Statistics Act of 2008, Escudero seeks to create the Statistics Philippines or STATPHIL that will effect the reorganization and proper overhaul of the currently existing Philippine Statistical System, the press release said.

The PSS is a decentralized, government-wide system of providing statistical information and services to the public.

The present system of PSS as defined in Executive Order No. 121 consists of the statistical organizations at all administrative levels, the personnel therein and the national statistical program.

SB No. 2191 proposes that STATPHIL be an independent body that will consolidate the nation's knowledge and facts to be intelligently used in decision-making for our development as a state and for the upliftment of the plight of every Filipino people, the press release added.*

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