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Improved data governance leads to better economic outcomes for Philippine citizens

Improved data governance leads to better economic outcomes for Philippine citizens
Improved data governance leads to better economic outcomes for Philippine citizens

In 2013, the Philippines Government enacted legislation that merged four existing data-producing agencies into one comprehensive Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Despite the high transaction costs of the initial reform, it was believed that a single, centralized agency could improve the quality and timeliness of official statistics, as well as generate efficiencies in data collection. Five years since the legislation was enacted, the PSA has: improved the timeliness of national and regional accounts, supporting more accurate and timely financial activities (including a new cost-saving tax reform program); opened up national statistical data, including microdata, in alignment with the national government’s commitment to transparency; innovated the way it conducts household surveys and censuses to enable geotagging and geospatial analytics; and is now coordinating a new national identification system, which is expected to generate cost savings of up to 2 percent of the country’s GDP over a five-year period (approximately US$6.09 billion, based on 2016 GDP estimates from the World Bank). Challenges remain as the PSA is still striving to make its work more effective and efficient, but it provides a compelling example of the value of investing in data governance and building high-level central data systems with the mandate to coordinate the production and use of a broad range of data and statistics across government.
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Espey, Jessica
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Espey, Jessica
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Espey, Jessica (2018) Improved data governance leads to better economic outcomes for Philippine citizens UNSDSN

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In 2013, the Philippines Government enacted legislation that merged four existing data-producing agencies into one comprehensive Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Despite the high transaction costs of the initial reform, it was believed that a single, centralized agency could improve the quality and timeliness of official statistics, as well as generate efficiencies in data collection. Five years since the legislation was enacted, the PSA has: improved the timeliness of national and regional accounts, supporting more accurate and timely financial activities (including a new cost-saving tax reform program); opened up national statistical data, including microdata, in alignment with the national government’s commitment to transparency; innovated the way it conducts household surveys and censuses to enable geotagging and geospatial analytics; and is now coordinating a new national identification system, which is expected to generate cost savings of up to 2 percent of the country’s GDP over a five-year period (approximately US$6.09 billion, based on 2016 GDP estimates from the World Bank). Challenges remain as the PSA is still striving to make its work more effective and efficient, but it provides a compelling example of the value of investing in data governance and building high-level central data systems with the mandate to coordinate the production and use of a broad range of data and statistics across government.

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Published date: 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 496636
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/496636
PURE UUID: c0b85cbc-2cb2-4068-9715-399e85d4a50f
ORCID for Jessica Espey: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5140-7463

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Date deposited: 07 Jan 2025 18:43
Last modified: 10 Jan 2025 03:21

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Author: Jessica Espey ORCID iD

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