Philippine Statistics Authority

Nisperos 05:42 PM, Sep 20, 2023

September 20, 2023

Dear ANDREA ANN ABELLA,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Aug 09, 2023 10:03:56 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

You asked for number of laundry shops in the Philippines.

Your FOI request is approved.

Our apologies for the delayed response.

In reference to your data request, please be informed that PSA does not release establishment-level information as we are bound by the confidentiality provision (Section 26) of Republic Act 10625 which states that: "Individual data furnished by the respondent to statistical inquiries, surveys and censuses of the PSA shall be considered privileged information and as such shall be inadmissible as evidence in any proceeding."

"The PSA may release aggregated information from statistical inquiries, surveys and censuses in the form of summaries or statistical tables in which no reference to an individual, corporation, association, partnership, institution or business enterprise shall appear.”

For our available data, you may check our MSMEs data based on our ULE 2021:

More than 1.08 million Establishments Operated in 2021 which Generated Total Employment of 8.57 million (2021 Updating of the List of Establishments Preliminary Results)
https://psa.gov.ph/content/more-108-million-establishments-operated-2021-which-generated-total-employment-857-million

Or you may check our tabulated data on this- https://1drv.ms/x/s!Ajr9bkYQz9Ocjxs55IwTLgH3Efp8?e=q2Q84y

For the explanatory notes, kindly check this link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VLEYxCpW4RrB2wBX1CZ69KwyX0ZmzoVH/view?usp=sharing

Or you may refer to below:

ASPBI Index
https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/survey/business-and-industry/index

2020 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) - Other Service Activities Section: Final Results
https://psa.gov.ph/content/2020-annual-survey-philippine-business-and-industry-aspbi-other-service-activities-section

CPBI Index
https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/census/business-and-industry/index

2018 Census of Philippine Business and Industry: Other Service Activities
https://psa.gov.ph/content/2018-census-philippine-business-and-industry-other-service-activities

Philippine Statistical Yearbook
https://psa.gov.ph/philippine-statistical-yearbook

2022 Philippine Statistical Yearbook (PSY)
https://psa.gov.ph/system/files/psy/%28ons-cleared%29_psy2022_manuscript_June29_ONSF%20%281%29-signed.pdf

Chapter 6: Industry
https://psa.gov.ph/system/files/psy/6_2022.xlsx

Summary Statistics for Other Service Activities Establishments by Geolocation, Industry Description, Year and Data Items
https://openstat.psa.gov.ph/PXWeb/pxweb/en/DB/DB__2D__2019/0002D4BAS00.px/?rxid=86b9112f-e3a1-4e8b-b4bf-f3f4458ac0d8

You may also refer to this link https://psa.gov.ph/classification/psic/class/9621 for Section S - Other Service Activities of 2019 Updates to the 2009 Philippine Standard Industrial Classification (PSIC).

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Thank you.

Respectfully,

Rene C. Mendoza
(Assistant National Statistician)
Officer-in-Charge
Information Technology and Dissemination Service