Department of Labor and Employment(DOLE)

April 27, 2018 Dear Jake Zamora, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Apr 14, 2018 11:44:13 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your request You asked for Number of Employed and Unemployed Filipino Nurses. Response to your request We were able to determine that this particular information is already available online and therefore cannot be counted as a valid FOI request. You may retrieve your requested information from Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) at psa.gov.ph. Attached is the Current Labor Statistics which contains key employment data published by PSA. Kindly take note that the number of employed persons were disaggregated by major occupation and industry group. Hence, no data specific to nurse occupation is available. Also, you may coordinate with DOH Human Resource Health (HRH) Network through electronic mail address [email protected] for your other request such as number of employed nurses in the government and private sector, and nurse-to-population ratio. You may also coordinate with Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) through e-mail address [email protected] regarding the number of nurses in Singapore. 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 Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III at [email protected]. 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, Ruth Rodriguez FOI Officer