Philippine Statistics Authority(PSA)

January 8, 2024 Dear Jericho Manansala, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Jan 06, 2024 09:41:22 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. You asked for the number of Small Retail Businesses in Sta. Mesa Manila. 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 MSMEs data, you may refer through this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YJEZqBIeoW3N38eg3MlHkNX_tc3IXcrm/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=105740966474332267520&rtpof=true&sd=true Our latest data is 2022 MSMEs. 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, Rene C. Mendoza (Assistant National Statistician) Officer-in-Charge Information Technology and Dissemination Service