WHEREAS, there is need of well-organized and reliable statistical data on the study and development of Filipino children and youth as scientific bases in the planning of work on the various phases of their development; and

WHEREAS, there is equal necessity for a central unit or body to serve as an advisory group on a national level to carry out a purposeful, precise and effective collation of statistical data for planning programs on child-youth development and welfare;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby create a Special Committee on Statistics on Filipino Child-Youth Development, composed of the following:

The Director, National Coordinating Center for the Study and Development of Filipino Children and Youth	Chairman
The Director, Bureau of the Census and Statistics	Vice-Chairman
The Administrator, Social Welfare Administration	Member
The Commissioner, Commission on National Integration	Member
The Director, Bureau of Women and Minors	Member
The Director, Bureau of Public Schools	Member
The Director, Bureau of Private Schools	Member
The Director, Bureau of Vocational Education	Member
The Chief, Office of Manpower Services	Member
The Director, Asian Labor Education Center, U.P.	Member
The Chief, Disease Intelligence Center  Department of Health	Member
The Director, Bureau of Dental Health Services	Member

The Committee, whose Secretariat shall be the National Coordinating Center for the Study and Development of Filipino Children and Youth (NCCSDFCY), shall submit to the President of the Philippines from time to time its reports and recommendations.

The Committee is empowered to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the government for such assistance as it may need in the discharge of its functions.

Done in the City of Manila, this 24th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-seven.


By the President:

(Sgd.) RAFAEL M. SALAS
Executive Secretar