2007 CENSUS OF POPULATION - CHD-Davao Region ...

Introduction
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The National Statistics Office conducted the 2007 Census of Population or
POPCEN 2007 on August 1, 2007. This nationwide undertaking is the 12 th census
of population that was undertaken since the first census in 1903.
Like the previous censuses conducted by the office, POPCEN 2007 was
designed to take an inventory of the total population in the Philippines and its
provinces, cities, municipalities and barangays and to collect some information
about the demographic, social, and economic characteristics of the population.
Authority for conducting the POPCEN 2007
Section 2 of Commonwealth Act No. 591, approved on August 19, 1940,
authorized the Bureau of the Census and Statistics (now the National Statistics
Office or NSO) to collect by enumeration, sampling or other methods, statistics
and other information concerning population and to conduct, for statistical
purposes, investigations and studies of social and economic conditions in the
country, among others.
Executive Order No. 121, signed on January 30, 1987, declared that the
NSO shall be the major statistical agency responsible for generating generalpurpose
statistics and for undertaking such censuses and surveys as maybe
designated by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB);
Presidential Proclamation No. 1346 “Declaring August 2007 as National
Census Month” enjoined all departments and other government agencies including
government-owned or controlled corporations, as well as local government units to
implement and execute the operational plans for the 2007 Census of Population
(POPCEN 2007), directives and orders of the NSCB, through the NSO.
Coordination for the POPCEN 2007
The NSO, headed by the Administrator, is the agency mandated to
formulate and execute plans to undertake POPCEN 2007. All authorities
pertaining to the operational procedures of census undertaking emanate from the
NSO Administrator. To assist in the various aspects of this activity, the National
Census Coordinating Board (NCCB) was created with the Secretary of the