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Full Page Fax Print 0022-3603 A Quarterly Issue JOURNAL OF PHILIPPINE STATISTICS VOLUME 63 NUMBER 1 FIRST QUARTER 2012 Feature Article Improving the Sampling Frame for Household- Based Surveys Using Digitized Satellite Maps Republic of the Philippines PHILIPPINE STATISTICS AUTHORITY Manila REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES HIS EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT BENIGNO SIMEON C. AQUINO III NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE CARMELITA N. ERICTA Administrator PAULA MONINA G. COLLADO Deputy Administrator ISSN 0022-3603 ii C O N T E N T S Page Preface…...…………………………………………………………… iv Contents…...…………………………………………………………… v Statistical Tables…...………………………………………………… vi Feature Article Improving the Sampling Frame for Household-Based Surveys using Digitized Satellite Maps………………………… 1 Section I - POPULATION AND HOUSING ……………………………… 11 Philippine Population Reaches 92.3 Million in 2010………. 11 Private Building Construction Statistics Third Quarter 2011 (Preliminary Results) …………...………. 13 Section II - LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT ………………………………… 33 Labor Force Survey: October 2011 …….………….…...……… 33 Labor Relations and Concerns …………………………….…. 37 Section III - TRAVEL AND TOURISM …………………………………….. 49 Visitor Arrivals to the Philippines: First Quarter 2012 ……… 49 Hotel Accommodations and Visitors' Average Length of Stay: First Quarter 2012 ……....………………………….. 52 Section IV -SOCIAL WELFARE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ………………………………………………. 61 Welfare Benefits and Services Fourth Quarter 2011 …………………………………………… 61 Section V - EDUCATION AND CULTURE ……………………………….. 74 Education Indicators: 2008-2012.……………………………… 74 Promotion of Culture and Arts ……………………………….. 77 NCCA launches new books…………………………………… 78 Section VI -HEALTH, NUTRITION AND VITAL STATISTICS …………. 86 Health and Vital Indicators: 2011…………………………….. 86 Health Insurance Coverage: 2011……………………………. 87 Health Care Treatment: 2011…………………………………… 90 Hospital Care: 2011 ……………………………………………… 93 Section VII DEFENSE, CRIME AND DELINQUENCY .…………………. 105 Crime Indicators: Fourth Quarter 2011 ……………………… 105 Human Rights Violation Cases: 2010-2011 108 S T A T I S T I C A L T A B L E S Page Section I - POPULATION AND HOUSING 1.1 Total population by region, by province and by highly urbanized cities: 1990, 2000 and 2010 ……………………… 19 1.2 Annual growth rates by region, by province and by highly urbanized cities: 1990, 2000 and 2010 ……………………… 23 1.3 Comparative construction statistics by type of building Third Quarter 2010 and 2011 ….……………………………… 27 1.4 Number of new residential building construction started floor area and value of constructions by type and by region : Third Quarter 2011 ….………………………… 29 1.5 Number of new non-residential building construction started floor area and value of constructions by type and by region : Third Quarter 2011 ….………………………… 30 1.6 Number of new commercial building construction started floor area and value of constructions by type and by region : Third Quarter 2011 …………………………… 31 1.7 Number of new industrial building construction started floor area and value of constructions by type and by region : Third Quarter 2011 …………………………. 32 Section II - LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT 2.1 Comparative labor statistics: October 2010 and 2011 ……… 39 2.2 Employed persons by industry, occupation, class of worker and hours worked: October 2011 ………………… 40 2.3 Underemployed persons by hours worked and industry and unemployed persons by age group, sex and highest grade completed: October 2010 and 2011 …… 41 2.4 Rates of labor force participation, employment unemployment and underemployment by region October 2011 …………………………………………………… 43 2.5 Strike and lockout notices and actual strikes and lockouts: Fourth Quarter 2011 …………………………… 44 2.6 Strike and lockout notices, actual strikes and lockouts and preventive mediation cases by region January to December 2011 …………………………………… 45 STATISTICAL TABLES - Continued Page Section III - TRAVEL AND TOURISM 3.1 Visitor arrivals by country of residence First Quarter 2011 and 2012 …………………………………… 54 3.2 Visitor arrivals by country of residence March 2011 and 2012 …………………………………………… 57 3.3 Top ten travel markets First Quarter 2011 and 2012 …...……………………………… 60 3.4 Average occupancy rates of hotels in Metro Manila by classification: First Quarter 2011 and 2012 ……………… 60 Section IV -SOCIAL WELFARE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 4.1 Number of disadvantaged children served by program/project/service by sex and by region Fourth Quarter 2010 and 2011 ………………………………… 66 4.2 Number of youth served by program/project/service by sex and by region: Fourth Quarter 2010 and 2011……… 67 4.3 Number of women served by program/project/service and by region: Fourth Quarter 2011..………………………… 69 4.4 Number of persons with disabilities (PWDs) served by program/project/service, by sex and by region Fourth Quarter 2010 and 2011…...…………………………… 71 4.5 Number of senior citizens (SCs) served by program/project/service by sex and by region Fourth Quarter 2010 and 2011 ………………………………… 72 Section V - EDUCATION AND CULTURE 5.1 Net participation rate in public elementary schools SY 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 ………………………………… 82 5.2 Net participation rate in public secondary schools SY 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 ………………………………… 82 5.3 Cohort survival rate in public and private elementary schools SY 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 ………………………………… 83 5.4 Cohort survival rate in public and private secondary schools SY 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 ………………………………… 83 STATISTICAL TABLES - Concluded Page 5.5 Enrolment in public and private schools by level of education: SY 2010-2011 and SY 2011-2012 …………… 84 5.6 Number of public and private schools ………………………… 84 Section VI - HEALTH, NUTRITION AND VITAL STATISTICS 6.1 Health insurance coverage …………………………………… 96 6.2 Philhealth insurance coverage ………………………………… 97 6.3 Treatment-seeking behavior …………………………………… 98 6.4 Use of specific types of health facilities ……………………… 99 6.5 Reason for seeking health care ……………………………… 101 6.6 Average travel time to health facility visited ………………… 102 6.7 Use of specific types of health facilities ……………………… 103 Section VII DEFENSE, CRIME, AND DELINQUENCY 7.1 Total crime volume and efficiency rate by region Fourth Quarter 2010 and 2011………………………………… 109 7.2 Index and non-index crimes by region Fourth Quarter 2010 and 2011………………………………… 109 7.3 Crimes against persons by region Fourth Quarter 2010 and 2011………………………………… 110 7.4 Crimes against property by region Fourth Quarter 2010 and 2011 ………………………………… 111 7.5 Incidence of alleged human rights violation by region 2012 …………..…………………………………………………… 112 7.6 Number of human rights violations cases by region and by case type: 2009 ………………………………………… 113 Feature Article Improving the Sampling Frame for Household-Based Surveys Using Digitized Satellite Maps1 by Florante C. Varona2 and Josephine O. Tabernilla3 Abstract to produce reliable labor force estimates at the province level. This sampling design also served as prototype or model For several years now, the for the development of the new master Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) is sample for household-based surveys. working continuously to develop and improve the master sample design and to This paper aims to illustrate the enhance the sampling frame of PSA’s experience in the development of household-based surveys, such as, the sampling frame for the two pilot Labor Force Survey (LFS), Family provinces. The sampling frame Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES), development involved the formation of Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS), primary sampling units (PSUs) with about Survey on Overseas Filipinos (SOF), similar sizes ranging from 100 to 400 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass households. The sampling design was Media Survey (FLEMMS), etc. based on Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) which consider the number of The PSA is currently using the households as the measure of size. The 2003 master sample (MS) design to cater information on the number of households several household-based surveys. The was obtained from the results of 2010 2003 MS design can only provide reliable CPH. To give more emphasis on the estimates at the regional level. With the reduction of non-sampling error, clearer availability of data from the results of the and more precise PSU boundaries would 2010 Census of Population and Housing be necessary. The use of available (CPH), the plan to develop a 2010 CPH- satellite imagery in constructing based master sample that will provide segment/PSU boundaries was reliable province level estimates had recommended not only for the pilot been pursued and started. provinces but for other provinces as well. Using digitized satellite maps (i.e, Google Recently, the PSA in collaboration Earth digitized maps) together with the with the International Labor Organization 2010 CPH listing forms and available (ILO) Manila carried out a pilot survey for sketch census maps (i.e., 2010 CPH the labor force that will produce reliable enumeration area (EA) maps and block estimates at the provincial level. Two (2) maps for congested areas), the pilot provinces, Antique and Agusan del determination of appropriate Sur, were identified as the pilot survey segment/PSU boundaries were relatively domains to carry out this project. A became more precise. sampling design was developed primarily 1 2 JOURNAL OF PHILIPPINE STATISTICS 1.1 Introduction In constructing area sampling frame it is vital and important to have a An essential aspect in the properly identified boundaries of the development of master sample for location of each of the sampling units. several household-based surveys is the Thus, it is necessary to consider the sampling frame.
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