Philippine Statistics Authority(PSA)

June 8, 2023 Dear Edcel Arat Jr, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Apr 29, 2023 10:24:21 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. You asked for List of BPO companies in Manila. 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.” For our available data, you may refer to our MSMEs data: 2017- https://1drv.ms/x/s!Ajr9bkYQz9Ocgmpej337nqTYZuKd?e=Dj03tZ 2018-https://1drv.ms/x/s!Ajr9bkYQz9OchTccvBDHyIWVBmUQ?e=hbGlff 2019- https://1drv.ms/x/s!Ajr9bkYQz9OcjlwZmDaQ7qwrJFj_?e=tdjHja 2020- https://1drv.ms/x/s!Ajr9bkYQz9Ocjl1DKlqJFCDoi737?e=cTBuM3 For the explanatory notes, kindly check this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VLEYxCpW4RrB2wBX1CZ69KwyX0ZmzoVH/view?usp=sharing Or you may also refer to the following published data: a) 2019 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) - Information Technology - Business Process Management (IT-BPM) Industries: Preliminary Results: https://psa.gov.ph/content/2019-annual-survey-philippine-business-and-industry-aspbi-information-technology-business b) 2018 Census of Philippine Business and Industry: Information and Communication Activities: https://psa.gov.ph/content/2018-census-philippine-business-and-industry-information-and-communication-activities-0 c) LABSTAT Updates Vol 22 No 13 on Industry Profile - BPO 2018: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/ird/specialrelease/LABSTAT%20Updates%20%20Vol%2022%20No%2013%20on%20Industry%20Profile%20-%20BPO%202018_0.pdf Figure 1 Number and Location of Call Centers in the Philippines: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/3rdQ2008.pdf Figure 2 Total Employees in the Philippine IT-BPO Industry: 2009: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/3rdQ2008.pdf Table 2 Total Employees in the Philippine IT-BPO Industry: 2009 : https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/3rdQ2008.pdf We would love to hear your Feedback so we can improve our services. Kindly fill out the PSA Customer feedback form from this link: https://tinyurl.com/OnlineCSSForm. Thank you. Respectfully, Noel G. Perez (Information Technology Officer III) Officer-in-Charge Information Technology and Dissemination Service