PSA unveils products, services innovations

• Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1001397
• Sunday, October 29, 2017

By Lilibeth A. French (JSC/laf/PIA6 Iloilo)

ILOILO CITY, Oct. 29 (PIA6) -- The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Friday unveiled innovations intended to provide access to data products and improve the services of the agency.

Jenelyn Banares, Statistical Specialist II of the Statistical Standards Division of PSA Central Office presented the three innovations during the Regional Dissemination Forum on the Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of the 2015 Census of Population held here.

The innovations which are featured in the agency’s website www.psa.gov.ph. include PSA Data Archives (PSADA), Inventory of Statistical Standards in the Philippines (ISSiP) and e-Classification Mobile Application.

PSADA is a systematic repository of data collection activities of the PSA. It serves as a gateway to microdata and documents of the agency’s surveys, censuses and administrative-based statistics. It hopes that all collected microdata are proficiently documented, widely disseminated and properly preserved. Likewise, it aims to promote the rational use and appropriate interpretation of statistics generated by the PSA.

As of June 2017, Banares said that there are already 70 PSA surveys downloaded in the PSADA and updating is ongoing.

On the other hand, ISSiP is a compilation of statistical standards used by various agencies in the Philippine Statistical System.

Banares added that statistical standards include statistical concepts, definition, methodologies and procedures and classifications for official statistics.

E-Classification Mobile App is a user friendly android mobile search engine application that can be easily accessed by the public and private sectors for searching codes or descriptions about the various Philippine standard classification systems used in categorizing economic activities, products and services, geographic codes, among others.

Also launched during the forum was the PSA 6 regional website and the provincial landing pages.

PSA 6 Statistical Operations and Coordination Division Chief Marlene Aviar said the regional website which is still a work in progress is a part of their initial efforts to adopt appropriate technology in the development of their products and services.

The one-day Regional Dissemination Forum on the Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of the 2015 POPCEN was attended by representatives from the national government agencies, local government units, private institutions and media, and PSA Statistics Officers from the different provinces in the region as part of the activities for the 28th National Statistics Month celebration in Western Visayas this October.