DOLE launches two statistics web portals

QUEZON CITY, Oct 2 (PIA) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday unveiled the Community-Based Employment Program (CBEP) Website and Online Monitoring System that houses the name, demographic profile, occupation, employment duration, and income of every CBEP beneficiary throughout the Philippines, in line with the celebration of the National Statistics Month.

In a statement, Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz, said that DOLE, as chairman of the interagency committee monitoring the implementation of the CBEP at the national level, created the website as a tool to monitor and coordinate the various projects enrolled under the CBEP.

DOLE’s Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics (BLES) also presented yesterday the Decent Work Statistics-Philippines, or DeWS-Phil, an interactive database of the country’s decent work statistical indicators.

The DeWS-Phil which can be accessed thru the BLES website, www.bles.dole.gov.ph, is a one-stop shop portal for statistics on decent work that aims not only to raise awareness among policymakers, researchers, workers, and employers but also to facilitate a more effective monitoring and assessment method for areas of improvement on decent work in the country.

BLES Director Tere Peralta said the agency was able to complete the statistical data series from 1995 to 2010 under the Monitoring and Assessing Progress on Decent Work (MAP) project of the European Union (EU) and the International Labor Organization (ILO).

“We developed the database using the PC-Axis family software of Statistics Sweden which we had acquired under a memorandum of agreement with the National Statistical and Coordination Board (NSCB),” Peralta said.

The National Statistics Month is celebrated annually pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 647 to promote, enhance, and instill nationwide awareness and appreciation of the importance of statistics to various sectors of society, and to elicit cooperation and support of the general public in upgrading the quality and standards of statistics in the country. (DOLE/RJB/SDL/PIA-NCR)