Philippine Statistics Authority(PSA)

January 9, 2023 Dear MARCO PAULO MAGANTE, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Dec 18, 2022 11:56:20 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. You asked for List of Pharmacy and their pharmacist in District V, Quezon City.. Your FOI request is approved. Our apologies for the delayed response. 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 our data on MSMEs based on our ULE: https://1drv.ms/x/s!Ajr9bkYQz9Ocjxs55IwTLgH3Efp8?e=q2Q84y Number of MSME: More than 1.08 million Establishments Operated in 2021 which Generated Total Employment of 8.57 million (2021 Updating of the List of Establishments Preliminary Results) https://psa.gov.ph/content/more-108-million-establishments-operated-2021-which-generated-total-employment-857-million For our data on pharmacist, our data is limited to our publication on 2019 Philippine Statistical Yearbook (PSY) Chapter 9: VITAL, HEALTH and NUTRITION STATISTICS: https://psa.gov.ph/products-and-services/publications/philippine-statistical-yearbook TABLE 9.19 Number of Licensed Drug Distributor Establishments by Region: 2016 and 2017: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2019%20T9_19.xlsx Thank you. Respectfully, Noel G. Perez (Information Technology Officer III) Officer-in-Charge Information Technology and Dissemination Service