Philippine Statistics Authority(PSA)

March 15, 2023 Dear Alyssa Alano, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Feb 13, 2023 12:17:03 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. You asked for Nursing workforce in the Philippines. Your FOI request is approved. In reference to your data request, please see our available data as follows: 1. Number of Hospitals in Cavite broken down as primary, secondary, and tertiary with corresponding bed count per municipality (Gov't and Private) 2021 Philippine Statistical Yearbook (PSY) Chapter 9: VITAL, HEALTH and NUTRITION STATISTICS: https://psa.gov.ph/products-and-services/publications/philippine-statistical-yearbook Table 9.16 Number of Hospitals and Bed Capacity: 1990 to 2015: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2021_T9_16.xlsx Table 9.17 Number of Hospitals by Type and by Region: 2005 to 2015: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2021_T9_17.xlsx 2. Current Nursing Workforce in the Philippines more focusing in Male nurses (Gov't and Private) a) 2021 Philippine Statistical Yearbook (PSY) Chapter 9: VITAL, HEALTH and NUTRITION STATISTICS: https://psa.gov.ph/products-and-services/publications/philippine-statistical-yearbook Table 9.13 Number of Government Medical Practitioners by Region: 2010 to 2020: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2021_T9_13.xlsx b) Labor Force Survey: https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/survey/labor-and-employment/labor-force-survey https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/survey/labor-and-employment/labor-force-survey/table Integrated Survey of Households (ISH) Bulletin: https://psa.gov.ph/content/integrated-survey-households-ish-bulletin Our latest data is for the month of January 2023: https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/survey/labor-and-employment/labor-force-survey/title/Unemployment%20Rate%20in%20January%202023%20is%20Estimated%20at%204.8%20Percent c) We do not have data on Projected Supply and Demand of Nurses. d) Current Nurses to Patient Bed Staffing Ratio in the Philippines- for this data, you may try to coordinate with the following: Philippine Nurses Association: https://pna-ph.org/ Department of Health: https://doh.gov.ph/ e) Nursing graduates per year from 2018-2022 (focusing more on males) 2021 Philippine Statistical Yearbook (PSY) Chapter 10: EDUCATION AND MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT: https://psa.gov.ph/products-and-services/publications/philippine-statistical-yearbook Table 10.17 Higher Education Enrollment by Discipline Group: AY 2011-2012 to 2020-2021: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2021_T10_17.xlsx Table 10.18 Higher Education Graduates by Discipline Group: AY 2010-2021 to 2019-2020: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2021_T10_18.xlsx Figure 5: Philippines: number of nurses passing licensing exam, 2012-18; number of nurses deployed abroad, 2012-2016: https://www.icn.ch/system/files/documents/2020-07/COVID19_internationalsupplyofnurses_Report_FINAL.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