Philippine Statistics Authority(PSA)

June 11, 2019 Dear Ishan Hasan, I refer to my letter of Jun 03, 2019 11:16:16 AM about your request under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Statistical Tables on Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW): 2017. In order for us to work further on your request, it would be helpful if you could specify the statistics on overseas workers you wish to request. If the information is available we will procees it accordingly and provide you the result. In case you wish the microdata of LFS you will be asked of the following: 1) Letter of Request addressed to our Head of Agency with an affixed signature of the Agency Head/Thesis Adviser of the requester indicating the specific data of puf, its reference period, and the purpose of using the microdata. Request shall be sent to [email protected] 2) Once the request is approved, we will send Data Product Agreement Form for signing and the data will be provided as soon as possible. In addition, we encourage you to visit openstat.psa.gov.ph where you may find more information relevant to your request. Thank you very much. Respectfully Edwin U. Aragon OIC-ANS, Information Technology and Dissemination Service

Sep 03, 2019 Dear Ishan, I refer to my letter of Jun 11, 2019 about your request under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Statistical Tables on Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW): 2017. In particular, I had requested specific information for you to clarify upon in order for us to proceed with the request. As we have not received a reply within the 60-day working period since the letter requesting for clarification was sent out, we regret to inform you that this request will be closed as of Sep 03, 2019. You may wish to submit a new request describing the specific information you are looking for, and we will be able to consider it under the guidelines as stated in Executive Order No. 2. 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 or visiting our central office. 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, Simonette FOI Officer