The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) targets to register at least five million Filipinos in the national ID system in the last quarte...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) targets to register at least five million Filipinos in the national ID system in the last quarter of the year, National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) chief Karl Kendrick Chua said Thursday.
During the Senate Committee on Finance hearing of NEDA's proposed P11.17-billion budget, Chua said the PSA would pre-register nine million Filipinos first, with the end goal of successfully registering five million from low-income households in the system by the end of 2020.
National Statistician Claire Dennis Mapa said the pre-registration would take place in 32 provinces that were identified as low-risk to COVID-19.
"We want to protect the registrant and the registration officers. We will do house-to-house to conduct first the pre-registration, to collect the demographic information and then we will set an appointment system so that the registrant will be going to our mobile registration centers on a specific day and specific hour," Mapa said.
