The certification on demographic projection can be issued only if such are declared official by the Nat’l Statistics

Coordination Board. In this case, it was not stated whether the document have been declared official by the NSCB.
The certification can be issued only by the NSO Administrator or his designated certifying officer, in which case, the
Regional Director of Central Luzon NSO is unauthorized.
The population projection must be as of the middle of the year, which in this case, the Certification issued by Director
Miranda was undated.