Celso convenes Census Board
Mayor Celso Lobregat Wednesday reconstitutes and convenes the City Census Coordinating Board (CCCB) in preparation for the 2010 Census on Household and Population set in May by the National Statistics Office. (JOEY BAUTISTA)
Mayor Celso Lobregat yesterday issued an executive order reconstituting the City Census Coordinating
Board (CCCB) in preparation for the conduct of the 2010 Census of Population and Housing by the National Statistics Office in May.
Under the law, Mayor Lobregat is the designated chairman of the CCCB.
The mayor convened the board to discuss about preparations for the major undertaking that will employ the services of over 700 enumerators to cover the entire 98 barangays of the city.
The City Schools Superintendent is the designated vice chairperson of the Board with the following as members: the assistant Schools Division Superintendent, City Administrator, City Police Director, Task Force Zamboanga, City Health Officer, City Planning and Development Coordinator, City Social Welfare and Development Officer, City Assessor, City Civil Registrar, the Private Sector represented by the presidents of the Zamboanga City Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation, Inc.; Industrial Group of Zamboanga, Incorporated; Movement for a Better Zamboanga and the Zamboanga Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Inc.; the President, Association of Barangay Captains, the City/Provincial Statistics Office (Executive Officer) – NSO and the City Population Officer.
The Census of Population and Housing refers to the entire process of collecting, compiling, evaluating, analyzing, publishing and disseminating data about the population and the living quarters in a country. It entails the listing and recording of the characteristics of each individual and each living quartrer as of a specified time and within a specified territory. It is designed to take an inventory of the total population and housing units in the Philippines and to collect information about their characteristics.
The 2010 CPH is a nationwide undertaking of theNational Statistics Office (NSO). It will be the 13th census of
population and the 6th census of housing that will be conducted in the country since the first census was undertaken in 1903.
The 2010 CPH will be conducted to provide government planners, policy makers, and administrators with data on which to base their social and economic development plans and prgrams.
The city’s population based on the 2007 census of population is over 774, 400.
Mayor Lobregat has tasked City Civil Registrar Atty. Eric Elias to determine what assistance and support the city government can provide to the NSO for the conduct of the CPH.
Also invited to the meeting of the CCB yesterday were the police station chiefs, Housing and Land Management Division personnel, Urban poor and Homeowners Association, representatives from the Western Mindanao Command and Edwin Andrews Air Base, the Federation of Kagawads in Zamboanga, Philippine Public Safety College and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology. (Sheila Covarrubias)