Three
government agencies recently signed a covenant to pool in is potential and
resources to start an action to address the long decade issue on the number of
Muslim population in the country.
Representatives
from the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF), the Philippine
Statistics Authority (PSA) and the National Economic and Development Authority
(NEDA) signed a Memorandum of Agreement for collaboration to count the Muslims
in the Philippines
It was
agreed that the NEDA will provide the necessary support to NCMF on the
assistance that it will provide to PSA to generate a realistic and updated
figure of the nation’s followers of Islamic faith in this year’s population
census.
In the
Article II Section 8 of Republic Act 9997, the legislation that created the
NCMF, the agency is mandated to “Assist the National Statistics Office (now
PSA) in conducting census in the actual population of Muslim Filipinos in the
country.”
The NCMF
chief, Secretary Yasmin Busran-Lao, extended its utmost gratitude and
appreciation to the two agencies for the support extended to the crucial
undertaking.
The three
government institutions held a high level meeting on July 21, 2014 and it was
agreed to include “religion” and the NCMF personnel as “Enumerators” in the
2015 Population Census (POPCEN).
Muslim
population is roughly estimated at around five per cent of the largely
dominated Roman Catholic nation. Based on the 2010 Census of Population and Housing,
the country’s total population is 92,337,852.
Muslim
populace is concentrated in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao comprised
of the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Sulu, Tawi-tawi and the cities
of Marawi and Lamitan.
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