Department of Labor and Employment(DOLE)

September 30, 2019 Dear Vincent Gustilo, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Sep 26, 2019 06:13:39 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your Request You asked for Total Number of Employed Persons in Negros Occidental - Year 2000 to Latest. Response to Request Your FOI request is approved. I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested. Attached is the October 2018 Current Labor Statistics published by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). It may be noted that employment data is diasggregated by regional level, hence, there is no provincial specific data. You may send a request to PSA for the special tabulation of employment data in Negros Occidental. For more information, you may visit www.psa.gov.ph. 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 electronic mail address [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, John Christopher P. Lapiz FOI Receiving Officer