Cordillera households to undergo FIES

CLOSE to 10,000 households in the Cordillera region are set to undergo Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) on July 2.

Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)-CAR will start its first visit to the respective households included in the new master sample for 2018 for the nationwide survey undertaken every three years.

The total number of household samples in the region comprised of 9,984.

The data arm agency generates statistics of the consumption on expenditure of a household as a basis to see the range of poverty incidents used in poverty statistics.

According to PSACordillera regional director Villafe Alibuyog, this will be their first time to use the master sample comprised of the list of specific respondents included in the FIES enumeration.

Each province will have 1,536 samples aside from the province of Apayao which comprises 768 households only.

About 51 statistical researchers will be deployed in each province to conduct the survey.

For the interviewers to have deeper understanding and interpretation of the concepts to be used in data gathering and analyzing family income and expenditures, PSA conducted a task force training in Manila.

“The task force training is a selected participant from central offices, regional office and provincial offices, to train the interviewers or statistical researchers to know the standard interpretation and understanding on the concepts and definition used in the FIES,” added Alibuyog.

Participants of the training are regular employees and employees holding a supervisory level position. After completing the training, they will also train another participant in their region for the second level and completers from the second level will also train interviewer participants for the third level in their provinces.

By next week, PSACAR will hold their second level training with still an on-going hiring for Statistical Researchers, wherein there is in need of 65 employees for the third level training for Benguet and Baguio.

“Since NSO, we’re already conducting the Family Income and Expenditure Survey, but the difference now is, we already have a new master sample that we use as a basis to whom we will conduct the interview,” the regional director added.

Aside from the interviews, statistical re-

searchers will also conduct a series of validation to verify the answers provided by the interviewees. Kaizzer Khimberlee Ponce / UP-Baguio intern and Fionna Mel Felicitas /MMSU intern