Department of Labor and Employment(DOLE)

May 21, 2019 Dear Aileen Zaballero, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated May 06, 2019 01:33:24 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your Request You asked for Nurse Workforce Data. Response to Request Your FOI request is approved. I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested. For the number of nurses currently employed, the result of the Labor Force Survey (LFS) conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) only provides the number of employed persons by major occupation group (i.e. professionals, clerks). Hence, no further disaggregation is available. I am attaching the October 2018 issue of Current Labor Statisctics for your reference. For the median salary, attached is the result of 2016 Occupational Wages Survey (OWS) conducted by the PSA. It provides the average monthly rate of different occupations by sector. For the Job Openings for RN, you may send a formal request to Bureau of Local Employment (BLE) via electronic mail address [email protected]. Kindly indicate the date of coverage of your request. 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, Gerardo Abordo FOI Receiving Officer