TACLOBAN CITY-On 08 to 31 July 2025, the Philippine Statistics Authority – Regional Statistical Services Office VIII (PSA – RSSO 8) will conduct the July 2025 Labor Force Survey (LFS) together with the 2025 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) Visit 1. The 2025 FIES Visit 1 will be a rider survey to the July 2025 LFS. The 2025 FIES will collect data covering the first semester of 2025.
The monthly LFS aims to generate high frequency data on the Philippine labor market to better monitor and assess the country’s employment situation and economic conditions. The results serve as vital inputs for planning, policy formulation, and implementation of programs that promote gainful employment and support livelihood opportunities for Filipinos.
Meanwhile, the 2025 FIES aims to accomplish the following objectives: to gather data on family income, sources of income, family expenditure and related information affecting family income and expenditure levels and patterns in the Philippines; to determine the income distribution, levels of living and spending patterns, and the degree of inequality among families; to provide inputs in the estimation of the country’s poverty threshold and incidence; and to provide benchmark information to update the weights used in the estimation of Consumer Price Index (CPI).
PSA enjoins all sample households to support the survey by providing truthful information to authorized PSA Statistical Researchers who will visit them to conduct personal interview. The office adheres to the principles of transparency, legitimate purpose, and proportionality pursuant to RA 10173 or the Data Privacy Act of 2012 and RA 10625 or the Philippine Statistical Act of 2013. Section 26 of RA 10625 stipulates that “individual data furnished by a respondent to statistical inquiries, surveys, and censuses of the PSA shall be considered privileged communication and as such shall be inadmissible as evidence in any proceeding”. All survey results will be released in the form of summaries or statistical tables.
The office assures the public that required public health and safety measures will be strictly observed in all phases of field operations. All PSA personnel and hired statistical researchers who will be deployed are healthy and will wear PSA ID for proper identification.
For inquiries and further information, please contact our office with telephone number (053) 839-1884 and email address rsso08socd@psa.gov.ph. (PR)
