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3. Result
The assessment made on the availability of the SDG indicators in the
Philippines showed that out of 232 unique indicators, 93 indicators were
classified as Tier 1 indicators, 55 were Tier 2 indicators, 71 were Tier 3
indicators and 13 indicators were not applicable to the country.
Among the Tier 1 indicators, around 32% will be sourced from PSA surveys,
censuses and administrative data, 67% will be sourced from the surveys and
administrative data of other government agencies and 1% will be sourced
from the data of the International Agencies.
The mapping initiative paved a way on the approval of the PSA Board
Resolution No 09 Series of 2017- Approving and Adopting the Initial List of
Sustainable Development Goals for Initial Monitoring, reinforcing the
importance to provide statistical information to monitor achievement of SDGs
to the 155 Philippine SDG indicators, which includes 102 global SDG
indicators, along with 25 proxy indicators and 28 supplemental indicators.
Similarly, among the Philippine SDG Indicators, 33% will be coming from
the PSA, 66% from other government agencies and 1% from other sources. In
terms of the sources of the primary data, 66% of the Philippine SDG indicators
will be from administrative data, 23% from survey, 5% from the combination
of the administrative data and survey and 6% from the combination of the
administrative data and census. Looking at the available disaggregation, 66%
of the indicators are available at the regional level, 42% are available at the
provincial level and 84% can be disaggregated by sex.
The mapping exercise of the Philippine SDG indicators and the PDP Results
Matrix (PDP-RM) showed that 68 out of the 155 approved SDG indicators were
integrated in the PDP-RM.
In recognition of the need to facilitate sub-national comparisons in
monitoring the achievement of the SDGs, there were 14 goals. 42 targets and
68 indicators identified as the initial CoRe-SDGIs, which will be monitored by
all the regions.
Linking the Philippine SDG Indicators with the sub-national SDG Indicator
Framework, of the 155 Philippine SDG indicators, on the average, there were
68 indicators that were available in Region XI (Davao Region), while on the
average, there were 66 provincial SDG indicators. Drilling down to the city and
municipal level, on average, there were 57 indicators that were available at the
city and municipal level.
Examining the integration of the SDG indicators to the local development
plans, of the 68 integrated SDG indicators in the PDP RM, 34 were included in
the Regional Development Plan RM, while on the average, there were 28 SDG
indicators integrated in the provincial development plan.
In Central Luzon, there were 95 indicators that were available at the
regional level. It can be noticed that the Central Luzon had higher number of

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