Philippine Statistics Authority(PSA)

April 26, 2023 Dear Nellan Rivamonte, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Apr 25, 2023 07:05:48 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. You asked for Total number of deaf and mute persons in Luzon. Your FOI request is approved. Please be informed that we have recently released data on disability based on our CPH 2020. However, our data are limited to the links below: Functional Difficulty in the Philippines: For Household Population Five Years Old and Over (2020 Census of Population and Housing) https://psa.gov.ph/population-and-housing/node/168274 TABLE C. Household Population 5 Years Old and Over by Age Group, Sex, Domain or Type of Functional Difficulty, and Level of Severity: Philippines, 2020 https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/hsd/pressrelease/%28approved%29Statistical%20Tables%20on%20Functional%20Difficulty_PMMJ_CRD.xlsx For our 2010 CPH data, kindly check this link: Persons with Disability in the Philippines (Results from the 2010 Census) https://psa.gov.ph/content/persons-disability-philippines-results-2010-census Table 1. Household Population with Disability by Age Group, Sex, and Region: Philippines, 2010: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/hsd/pressrelease/Disability%20by%20Age%20Group%20and%20Sex.pdf You may also check results of our National Disability Prevalence Survey for more information on disability: https://psa.gov.ph/content/national-disability-prevalence-survey Moreover, we do not have projections on this data. For updated and aggregated data on this, you may try to coordinate with the Department of Social Welfare and Development. 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