The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) and the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO), on the one hand, maintain statistics based mostly on administrative records as an offshoot of their functions.
On the other hand, the Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics and the National Statistics Office, have data based on labor force surveys and census of population and housing. We need to understand how these data from various agencies are interrelated. The first key question is: is there a uniform definition of what an OFW is?.