The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) will conduct the Labor Turnover Survey (LTS) nationwide starting 2018. The LTS aims to provide quarterly trend statistics on labor turnover and existing job vacancies as indicators of labor market activity and general business situation of the country. This provides the government and the private sector a complete picture of labor demand and job turnover as inputs to decision making and policy formulation.

Labor turnover statistics, as a measure of labor demand, provides policy and decision makers complementary data on labor supply which helps them in examining and analyzing the labor market situation of the nation’s economy. The expansion of the LTS will be implemented starting 2018 to get a more complete picture of the labor market situation in the whole country.

The conduct of the survey is pursuant to Republic Act 10625 also known as the Philippine Statistical Act of 2013 which states that the PSA shall be primarily responsible for all national censuses and surveys, including sectoral statistics, consolidation of administrative recording system, and compilation of national accounts. Furthermore, Section 26 of RA 10625 stipulates the confidentiality of information wherein individual data furnished by the respondent to statistical inquiries, surveys, and censuses of PSA shall be considered privileged communication and such shall be inadmissible as evidence in any proceeding. The PSA releases data gathered from censuses and surveys only in the form of summaries or statistical tables, in which no reference to an individual, corporation, association, partnership, institution or business enterprise will appear.

Below is the timetable of activities for the 2018 quarterly collection of labor turnover data.

Prior to 2018, the LTS was conducted only in the National Capital Region.

SOCRATES L. RAMORES

       Regional Director