MALACAÑANG
RESIDENCE OF THE PRESIDENT
OF THE PHILIPPINES
Manila

Proclamation No. 111

DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM FEBRUARY 20 TO 26, 1955, AS NATIONAL 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;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from February 20 to 26, 1955, as National 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 problem and of increasing the contribution of statistics to human welfare. I call especially on the schools, various chambers of commerce, 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.

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 3rd day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary


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