Philippine Statistics Authority(PSA)

May 17, 2023 Dear Ryan Dayata, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Apr 20, 2023 11:33:09 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. You asked for Number of sari-sari stores and grocery stores in Eastern Visayas. 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 on MSMEs based on our ULE, you may refer to the links below: 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 have also attached data on MSMEs 2020. For the explanatory notes, kindly check this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VLEYxCpW4RrB2wBX1CZ69KwyX0ZmzoVH/view?usp=sharing 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