The Duterte administration dangles legacy numbers during his first three and a half years. But there seems to be some problem on the numbers and how they were presented. 
First, the figures were supposed to be updated “as of Jan. 9” but some weren’t. Latest jobless data in the report, for instance, were as of Oct. 2019. Poverty figures are released every three years and latest one was as of 2018. So as of Jan. 9, 2020 misleads.
Some data need clarifications. According to the report, there were “64 airports” and “243 seaports,” suggesting those were built during Duterte gov’t alone. @CAAP_Operations data show there are only 42 airports operating in Phl, and not all of them were constructed under Duterte.
Sure, gov’t may have meant renovations were made to airports, but the question also remains: what improvements were made and how many were gov’t initiated? Mactan airport is privately maintained. Last May, CAAP said only 15 airports are up for facelift. on.ft.com/2FZFJpW
There is also no point of comparison to clearly gauge actual performance.@HUDCC_ph and new Housing chief Del Rosario previously said gov’t aimed to build 250,000 houses a year. At 596,859 “affordable and decent housing” for the first 3.5 years, gov’t clearly missed its targets.
There is also a question of how figures were showed. NHA data show 258,454 houses directly built by gov’t from Jan. 2016-Sept.2019. At 596,859 houses as claimed, gov’t likely included homes built via state loans like @pagibigfund which do not involve direct state building.
I can only surmise that the nearly 4.2m jobs created by “Build, Build, Build” included indirect jobs generated, if true. Still, that should have been clarified.
Some data were also not “updated” as claimed. Jobless rate for the entire 2019 averaged 5.1%. The 4.5% was only until October. The figure becomes factually wrong if we are to believed the note in the report that figures were “updated as of Jan. 9, 2020.” psa.gov.ph/content/prelim…
Gov’t is also guilty of nitpicking the data to show its achievements without proper context. First, ir was not clear that inflation of 0.8% was in Oct. alone and has started rising again to 2.5% in Dec. 2019. For all of 2018, inflation also peaked to a near-decade high of 5.2%.
Gov’t also included 9,845 km of roads as its achievement. It’s unclear what this meant, but @DPWHph data show that from 2016-Oct. 2018, gov’t only opened 1,952.8 km of roads, including both paved and unpaved.
See more: dpwh.gov.ph/dpwh/2018%20DP…
See more: dpwh.gov.ph/dpwh/2018%20DP…
Gov’t also cited “2,709” bridges among its accomplishments. This is absurd. First, there is no clear measurement of what the number meant (do they mean total no. of bridges?). @DPWHph measures bridges by linear meters of length and in 2018 alone, bridge length rose 4,285 lm.
