WHEREAS, tourism boosts the national as well as the local economy and has become a source of foreign exchange receipts and livelihood and employment opportunities for the region;

WHEREAS, Section 6 (I) of the Republic Act No.

WHEREAS, one of the major household survey conducted every three years by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) is the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES);

WHEREAS, the Philippines is committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which consists of 17 development goals, 169 targets and 232 indicators covering economic, social, and environmental dimensions of development;

WHEREAS, RSC-CAR Resolution No. 4, series of 2017, in consonance with PSA Board Resolution No. 3, s.

WHEREAS, the First Regional Statistics Committee (RSC) Summit held on September 21,2016 underscored the need to develop a harmonized and standardized set of core regional indicators (CoRe-Is) that would supplement the key development indicators useful in tracking the pace of…

WHEREAS , one of the frameworks maintained by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) is the System of National Accounts (SNA) which includes the Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) to be released on an annual basis;

WHEREAS, Section 6 (I) of the Republic Act No.

WHEREAS, the compilation of core indicators was discussed during the first Regional Statistics Committee (RSC) Summit held last September 21, 2016 in Manila and resulted to the identification of the national core indicators;