Philippine Statistics Authority

Nisperos 12:13 PM, Dec 28, 2022

December 28, 2022

Dear Mark Jasper Alvarado,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Nov 09, 2022 10:06:10 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

You asked for The number of child labor cases in Bicol.

We were able to determine that this particular information is already available online and therefore cannot be counted as a valid FOI request. 

Our apologies for the delayed response.

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

a) Working Children and Child Labor Situation: https://psa.gov.ph/content/working-children-and-child-labor-situation

TABLE D. Total Number and Percent Distribution of Child Laborers, by Sex, by Age Group, by Broad Industry Gorup and by Region, Philippines Oct 2019 and Oct 2020: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/hsd/specialrelease/TABLE%20D.%20Total%20Number%20and%20Percent%20Distribution%20of%20Child%20Laborers%2C%20by%20Sex%2C%20by%20Age%20Group%2C%20by%20Broad%20Industry%20Gorup%20%20and%20by%20Region%2C%20Philippines%20Oct%202019%20and%20Oct%202020%2C.xls

FIGURE 2. Percent Distribution of Working Children 5 to 17 Years Old by Broad Industry Group: October 2019 and 2020: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/hsd/specialrelease/Special%20Release%20on%20Working%20Children%20and%20Child%20Labor_2019-2020%20signed.pdf

b) Data on OpenSTAT portal

Working Children, Not Currently Attending School by Sex and Age Group: https://openstat.psa.gov.ph/PXWeb/pxweb/en/DB/DB__3K__E6/0553K3E6020.px/table/tableViewLayout1/?rxid=17d5972b-bc24-45f0-a1d9-b9787dc80678

Working Children by Sex and Major Industry Group: https://openstat.psa.gov.ph/PXWeb/pxweb/en/DB/DB__3K__E6/0563K3E6030.px/table/tableViewLayout1/?rxid=fbfe7e33-abd8-48cf-9479-9607a011b0d6

Working Children by Sex and Major Occupation Group: https://openstat.psa.gov.ph/PXWeb/pxweb/en/DB/DB__3K__E6/0573K3E6040.px/table/tableViewLayout1/?rxid=fbfe7e33-abd8-48cf-9479-9607a011b0d6

Employment-to-Working Age Population Ratio by Sex and Age Group: https://openstat.psa.gov.ph/PXWeb/pxweb/en/DB/DB__3K__E2/0183K3F2010.px/table/tableViewLayout1/?rxid=fbfe7e33-abd8-48cf-9479-9607a011b0d6

c) Labstat Update: Decent Work in the Philippines: Statistics on Working Children: 
FIGURE 3 – Percent Distribution of Working Children by Major Industry Group, Philippines: 2017: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/ird/specialrelease/LABSTAT%20Updates%20Vol.%2023%20No.%205%20on%20Decent%20Work%20in%20the%20Philippines%20%20Statistics%20on%20Working%20Children_3.pdf

d) Survey on Children 2011: Estimated Number of Working Children 5 to 17 Years Old Who Worked During The Past Week Was 3.3 Million (Final Results of the 2011 Survey on Children): https://psa.gov.ph/content/estimated-number-working-children-5-17-years-old-who-worked-during-past-week-was-33-million

Survey on Children 2011: https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/survey/labor-and-employment/survey-on-children TABLE 1 Children 5 to 17 years old by employment status and region: 2011 SOC: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/hsd/specialrelease/TABLE%201%20%20Children%205%20to%2017%20years%20old%20by%20employment%20status%20and%20region%202011%20SOC.pdf 

TABLE 2 Working children 5 to 17 years old by type of work, sex, age group and region: 2011 SOC: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/hsd/specialrelease/TABLE%202%20%20Working%20children%20%205%20to%2017%20years%20old%20by%20type%20of%20work%2C%20sex%2C%20age%20group%20and%20region%202011%20SOC.pdf

TABLE 3 Percent distribution of children engaged in child labor by broad industry group and by sex: 2011 SOC: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/hsd/specialrelease/TABLE%203%20%20Percent%20distribution%20of%20children%20engaged%20in%20child%20labor%20by%20broad%20industry%20group%20and%20by%20sex%202011%20SOC.pdf

Thank you.

Respectfully,

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