---
id: "ph_pcn"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons"]
country: ["PH"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 68
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ph_pcn"
---

# Philippine PhilSys Card Number (PCN) (`ph_pcn`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

PhilSys Card Number, the public 16-digit number printed on the front of the PhilID card. It is a tokenized form of the confidential PhilSys Number and is the number to give in transactions. It changes when the card is replaced. The regexp describes the compact form; a grouping of the digits is not documented.

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons)
- Countries: Philippines (PH)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{16}$
```

## Examples

- `4290771630582194` — Synthetic value in the documented format
- `429077163058219` (invalid example) — Fifteen digits instead of sixteen

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_national_identity_card>
- doc: <https://www.biometricupdate.com/202105/philippines-government-calls-on-government-to-accept-government-issued-id-cards>

## Quality

Score 68/100. Missing: second example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ph_pcn.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/PH/persons/ph_pcn.yaml>