DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM JANUARY 9 TO 15, 1954 AS STATISTICS WEEK

WHEREAS, in the interest of a more progressive
and prosperous Philippines, it is desirable to encourage and promote the use of
statistical data in the solution of social and economic problems;

WHEREAS, to attain this objective, it is
necessary to fully inform the public of the benefits to be derived from a
program of statistical promotion and development and to disseminate
applications of statistics to the service of human
welfare; and

WHEREAS, it is essential that this program of
statistical development in government and research necessary for wise
administration and planning be assured of the
widest possible public support;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of
the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from January 9 to 15, as
Statistics Week, I call upon all government offices and instrumentalities
throughout the country as well as all private entities and individuals to
participate in the proper observance of said period, to give fullest publicity
to the statistical promotion activities organized in connection therewith, and
otherwise to generously support the Philippine Statistical Association, Inc. in
its task of fostering statistics and its applications, of promoting unity and
effectiveness of effort among all concerned with statistical problems, and of
increasing the contribution of statistics to human welfare, I especially call
on the schools, various chambers, professional organizations’ and societies,
civic organizations and service clubs to devote one day of said period to a
program of education for the promotion of knowledge of facts and figures as a
healthy basis for knowing our social and economic status and progress and that
democracy laid by well informed citizens and administrators is a true democracy
in action.

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 2nd day of
January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty four, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary