This policy note examines how the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) expanding responsibilities—beyond its core statistical mandate to include civil registration, national identification, and community-based monitoring—affect quality assurance and confidentiality. The authors argue that these nonstatistical functions compromise statistical quality and independence, highlighting the urgent need for institutional reform to restore the PSA’s exclusive focus on statistical production. They note that the expansion of the PSA’s mandate has coincided with a decline in data quality, as demonstrated by a comprehensive assessment of 16 household surveys. They also emphasize that integrating statistical and administrative functions threatens confidentiality, while delays in releasing critical datasets and reliance on outdated agricultural data undermine evidence-based policymaking. The authors stress that reform is both necessary and urgent, warning that the cost of inaction is a statistical system that erodes trust, compromises data integrity, and weakens the evidence-based governance essential for sustainable development and accountability.