Philippine Statistics Authority(PSA)

July 2, 2018 Dear Shirra de Guia, I refer to my letter of Jun 28, 2018 11:48:18 AM about your request under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for 2015 FIES-LFS Merged PUF. In order for us to work further on your request, we wish to inform you that the agency may charge a reasonable fee in processing your request for Merged FIES-LFS. Also, there is a conforme that you have to sign before we release the data. However, we can give you the PUF files for FIES and LFS 2015 separately for FREE. You may use the reply function on the eFOI portal at https://www.foi.gov.ph/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyHQsSB0NvbnRlbnQiEFBTQS01MDYxOTQ0MDQ5NDIM, for request with ticket number #PSA-506194404942, to respond. During the period of us awaiting your reply, your request will be put on hold. If we do not receive a reply on or before Sep 24, 2018 06:20:38 AM, your request will be closed. We hope to hear from you at the soonest possible time. Thank you. Respectfully, OIC-ANS FOI Officer

July 14, 2018 Dear Shirra de Guia, Thank you for your response dated July 2, 2019, with regard to my letter regarding clarifying your request on 2015 FIES-LFS Merged PUF, dated Jul 02, 2018 02:23 PM. We regret to inform you that we are still waiting for the printed quotation from the concerned division regarding your request. However, we were informed that the quotation price of the 2015 FIES-LFS Merged PUF is PHP 20,000. In order for us to work further on your request, it would be helpful to know if you still want to continue your request despite of the chargeable price. You may use the reply function on the eFOI portal at https://www.foi.gov.ph/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyHQsSB0NvbnRlbnQiEFBTQS01MDYxOTQ0MDQ5NDIM, for request with ticket number #PSA-506194404942, to respond. During the period of us awaiting your reply, your request will be put on hold. If we do not receive a reply on or before Oct 05, 2018 03:43:48 AM, your request will be closed. We hope to hear from you at the soonest possible time. Thank you. Respectfully, OIC-ANS FOI Officer

Sep 24, 2018 Dear Shirra, I refer to my letter of Jul 02, 2018 about your request under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for 2015 FIES-LFS Merged PUF. In particular, I had requested specific information for you to clarify upon in order for us to proceed with the request. As we have not received a reply within the 60-day working period since the letter requesting for clarification was sent out, we regret to inform you that this request will be closed as of Sep 24, 2018. You may wish to submit a new request describing the specific information you are looking for, and we will be able to consider it under the guidelines as stated in Executive Order No. 2. Your right to request a review If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to or visiting our central office. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, Simonette FOI Officer