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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 849, August 14, 1996 ]

DECLARING AS OFFICIAL THE 1995 POPULATION COUNT CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE

WHEREAS, pursuant to Batas Pambansa Blg. 72 and Executive Order No. 121, the National Statistics Office (NSO) is tasked with generating general purpose statistics, among which is a census of population of every ten years beginning in 1980 and other cenuses surveys as mandated by the National statistical Coordination Board (NSCB), the policy-making and coordinating body of statistical activities in the government;

WHEREAS, the NSCB approved the conduct of a mid-decadepopulation census through NSCB Resolution 6-93;

WHEREAS, pursuant thereto, a census of population was conducted by the NSO last September to November 1995, with September 1, 1995 as reference date;

WHEREAS, under Section 8 of Batas Pambansa Blg. 72, the final population count as determined from the processed census returns shall be considered as official for all purposes only upon proclamation by the President;

WHEREAS, funding for the census operation was ensured by the adoption of the activity as a flagship project of the government;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby approve Report No. 1 of the 1995 Census of Population containing one volume, which shows a national population as of September 1, 1995 of 68,614,162 and the population counts by region, province, city, municipality and barangay, and appended to this Proclamation as Annaex "A" and made an integral part hereof, and the same is hereby declared as official for all purposes.1aшphi1

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 14th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety six

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President

(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary

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