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Nursing workforce in the Philippines

Requested from PSA by A. Alano at 12:17 PM on Feb 13, 2023.
Purpose: Research
Date of Coverage: 01/01/2018 - 02/10/2023
Tracking no: #PSA-645606305020

Alano 12:17 PM, Feb 13, 2023 

Good day, Ma'am/Sir! I am a student from Cavite State University and I really need the information about the following:

1. Number of Hospitals in Cavite broken down as primary, secondary, and tertiary with corresponding bed count per municipality (Gov't and Private)
2. Current Nursing Workforce in the Philippines more focusing in Male nurses (Gov't and Private)
3. Projected Supply and Demand of Nurses
4. Current Nurses to Patient Bed Staffing Ratio in the Philippines
5. Current Ratio of Nurse per population
6 Nursing graduates per year from 2018-2022 (focusing more on males)

Nisperos 05:05 PM, Mar 15, 2023 

March 15, 2023

Dear Alyssa Alano,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Feb 13, 2023 12:17:03 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

You asked for Nursing workforce in the Philippines.

Your FOI request is approved. 

In reference to your data request, please see our available data as follows:

1. Number of Hospitals in Cavite broken down as primary, secondary, and tertiary with corresponding bed count per municipality (Gov't and Private)

2021 Philippine Statistical Yearbook (PSY) Chapter 9: VITAL, HEALTH and NUTRITION STATISTICS: https://psa.gov.ph/products-and-services/publications/philippine-statistical-yearbook

Table 9.16 Number of Hospitals and Bed Capacity: 1990 to 2015: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2021_T9_16.xlsx

Table 9.17 Number of Hospitals by Type and by Region: 2005 to 2015: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2021_T9_17.xlsx

2. Current Nursing Workforce in the Philippines more focusing in Male nurses (Gov't and Private)

a) 2021 Philippine Statistical Yearbook (PSY) Chapter 9: VITAL, HEALTH and NUTRITION STATISTICS: https://psa.gov.ph/products-and-services/publications/philippine-statistical-yearbook

Table 9.13 Number of Government Medical Practitioners by Region: 2010 to 2020: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2021_T9_13.xlsx

b) Labor Force Survey: 
https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/survey/labor-and-employment/labor-force-survey
https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/survey/labor-and-employment/labor-force-survey/table

Integrated Survey of Households (ISH) Bulletin: https://psa.gov.ph/content/integrated-survey-households-ish-bulletin

Our latest data is for the month of January 2023: https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/survey/labor-and-employment/labor-force-survey/title/Unemployment%20Rate%20in%20January%202023%20is%20Estimated%20at%204.8%20Percent

c) We do not have data on Projected Supply and Demand of Nurses.

d) Current Nurses to Patient Bed Staffing Ratio in the Philippines- for this data, you may try to coordinate with the following:

Philippine Nurses Association: https://pna-ph.org/
Department of Health: https://doh.gov.ph/

e) Nursing graduates per year from 2018-2022 (focusing more on males)

2021 Philippine Statistical Yearbook (PSY) Chapter 10: EDUCATION AND MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT: https://psa.gov.ph/products-and-services/publications/philippine-statistical-yearbook

Table 10.17 Higher Education Enrollment by Discipline Group: AY 2011-2012 to 2020-2021: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2021_T10_17.xlsx

Table 10.18 Higher Education Graduates by Discipline Group: AY 2010-2021 to 2019-2020: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2021_T10_18.xlsx

Figure 5: Philippines: number of nurses passing licensing exam, 2012-18; number of nurses deployed abroad, 2012-2016: https://www.icn.ch/system/files/documents/2020-07/COVID19_internationalsupplyofnurses_Report_FINAL.pdf

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

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