Philippine Statistics Authority(PSA)

November 15, 2022 Dear Monel Doria, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Oct 04, 2022 09:40:26 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. You asked for 2021 No. of Establishements in Wholesale and Retail Industry. Your FOI request is approved. Please be informed that PSA does not release establishment-level information as we are bound by the confidentiality provision (Section 26) of Republic Act 10625 which states that: "Individual data furnished by the respondent to statistical inquiries, surveys and censuses of the PSA shall be considered privileged information and as such shall be inadmissible as evidence in any proceeding." "The PSA may release aggregated information from statistical inquiries, surveys and censuses in the form of summaries or statistical tables in which no reference to an individual, corporation, association, partnership, institution or business enterprise shall appear.” We can only share with you our available MSMEs data: https://psa.gov.ph/content/more-108-million-establishments-operated-2021-which-generated-total-employment-857-million https://1drv.ms/x/s!Ajr9bkYQz9Ocjxs55IwTLgH3Efp8?e=q2Q84y We would love to hear your Feedback so we can improve our services. Kindly fill out the PSA Customer feedback form from this link: tinyurl.com/CustomerFeedbackPSA. Thank you. Respectfully, Noel G. Perez (Information Officer III) Officer-in-Charge Information Technology and Dissemination Service