Philippine Statistics Authority

Nisperos 06:31 PM, May 05, 2023

May 5, 2023

Dear Johnson de Leon,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Mar 30, 2023 05:35:41 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

You asked for List of Registered Hardware Stores in the Philippines.

Your FOI request is approved. 

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 data on MSMEs based on our ULE, we can only share the following data:

Number of MSME: 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

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Thank you.

Respectfully,

Noel G. Perez
(Information Technology Officer III)
Officer-in-Charge
Information Technology and Dissemination Service