One of the major activities of the PSA for this year is the 2018 Comprehensive Updating of the List of Establishments otherwise known as the Census of Philippine Business and Industry (CPBI) Phase 1. From the cradle of its inception until it flashes its data on the huge screens for analysis and implementations afterwards of its objectives by our captains of industry, government planners, gigantic corporate executives and ordinary stakeholders, it behaves odds at cross points, patience and endurance.

CPBI Phase 1 officially kicked-off when Office Memorandum 2017-097 was issued calling for the attendance to the Consultative Meeting last September 2017. Provincial Focal Person of this project in uttered obedience to the call of PSO Alcazaren together with two (2) participants from RSSO 07 and Cebu province flew on the scheduled date for the 2^nd Batch slated on September 19-20, 2017.

Bohol Provincial Statistical Office made their 3^rd Level Training on April 10-14, 2018 at Panda Tea Garden Suites with the PFP and SSS as trainers. Twenty five (25) hired field workers were listening intently and magnified their knowledge of the discussions on our Field Operations Manual. They hurdled the 6-day live-out training with eagerness to be deployed immediately to the field whenever workload assignments in the Android-Tablet devices will be downloaded from the BRIMPS server and availability of its presence do not hinder its usage otherwise. 

The office had started its enumeration on April 27, 2018 lagging ten days behind schedule because we desire rarely and live by the promise of the device to be used upon arrival. The ULE undertaking ended its enumeration last July 23 exactly as all data in the ULE apps has been uploaded to the server.

2018 Comprehensive Updating of the List of Establishments machine processed data via BRIMPS will soon be data reviewed and validated by the office in due time.