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also include changes in the method of computation, definition or source of
data source as deemed necessary by the stakeholders and the reviewers.
The PSA Review of the Philippine SDG Indicators would start with the
Interagency Committees for the Sectoral Review of the Indicators. The PSA
SDG team will give technical assistance to this event. After which, the Sectoral
Technical Consultation will take place. Technical consultations will be done
with sectoral stakeholders and representatives from concerned government
agencies. This will be followed by the Multi-Sectoral Consultations which is an
overall consultation with the concerned stakeholders on the revised draft and
refined indicators. After the Multi-Sectoral Consultation, Bilateral Meetings
with data source agencies will be held. Data collection methods and revision
on the metadata will be discussed to ensure that the data needed for the
indicators are truly available. Following this would be the Technical Workshop
prepared by PSA and NEDA to finalize the list of indicators. Lastly, the finalized
list of indicators will be presented to the focal persons for SDG and then
presented to the PSA Board for their approval and definite institutionalization.

3. Result and Discussion
Review of Indicator Results
After reviewing 33 global indicators, PSRTI together with its researchers
proposed 38 indicators. The reason the number of proposed indicators (38)
exceeded the number of global indicators (33) is that for some global
indicators more than one indicator was proposed. An example of this would
be global indicator 9.5.2 Researchers (in full-time equivalent) per million
inhabitants. For this global indicator, two indicators were proposed namely,
Researchers (in full-time equivalent) per million inhabitants and Number of
researchers (based on headcount) per million population. There were also
multitudes of proposed indicators for global indicators 4.4.4 Proportion of
youth and adults with information and communication technology (ICT) skills,
by type of skill; 9.c.1 Proportion of population covered by mobile network, by
technology; and 11.4.1 Total expenditure, public and private, per capita spent
on the preservation, protection, and conservation of all cultural and natural
heritage, by type of heritage (cultural, natural mixed and World Heritage
Center designation), by level of government, type of expenditure, and type of
private funding.
The 38 proposed indicators vis-à-vis their global indicator counterpart can
be classified as exact matches (i), proxy (ii), sub-indicators (iii), or
recommended for exclusion (iv). Table 1 shows this distribution. It can be seen
that based on this classification, almost 50% of the proposed indicators were
exact matches to their global counterparts. This is a good indication that there
are several global indicators that can be adopted in the Philippine setting.
However, the 15 proxy and 5 sub indicators reflect that there is also a good

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