National Statistics Office

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

MINERVA ELOISA P. ESQUIVIASPHILIPPINES NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendationsfor Population and Housing Censuses

New York, 29 October to 1 November 2013

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• The population and housing census was conducted simultaneously in May 2010.

• The 2010 CPH was carried out through face-to-face interview; paper-based; made use of complete enumeration using the short form, and sampling using the long form.

• It had 26 individual population census data items, 2 household level population census data items, and 21 housing census data items.

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National Statistics Office

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• Of the 21 housing census data items:

only 7 were collected on a complete enumeration;

14 are core housing topics as listed in the UN Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses;

7 were non-core housing topics.

• There are core housing topics in the UN P&R that were not collected in the 2010 CPH. These are the number of rooms, sewage disposal, bathing facilities, and availability of kitchen.

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List of Housing Topics Collected in the 2010 CPH

Item Short Form Long Form

1. Type of building*

2. Construction materials of the roofs

3. Construction materials of the outer walls*

4. State of repair of the building/house 5. Year building/house was built 6. Floor area of the housing unit

7. Fuel for lighting*

8. Fuel for cooking*

* Core housing topic listed in the UN Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses

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List of Housing Topics Collected in the 2010 CPH

Item Short Form Long Form

9. Source of water supply for drinking*

10. Source of water supply for cooking*

11. Source of water supply for laundry*

12. Tenure status of the housing unit*

13. Acquisition of the housing unit 14. Source of financing of the housing unit 15. Monthly rental of the housing unit

16. Tenure status of the lot*

* Core housing topic listed in the UN Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses

National Statistics Office

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

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List of Housing Topics Collected in the 2010 CPH

Item Short Form Long Form

17. Usual manner of garbage disposal*

18. Kind of toilet facility*

19. Land ownership*

20. Presence of household conveniences

including presence of cellphone & computers*

21. Internet access*

* Core housing topic listed in the UN Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses

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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

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• Topics collected for the first time in the 2010 CPH:

Presence of cellular phone and personal computers (desktop, laptop, notebook, netbook, and others) in working condition

Access to internet

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ISSUES

Floor area of the housing unit

• Difficult to obtain accurate response.• Provided response categories of estimated

floor area in range such as:01 - less than 5 sq. m./less than 54 sq. ft.02 - 5-9 sq. m./54-107 sq. ft.03 - 10-19 sq. m./108-209 sq. ft.04 - 20-29 sq. m./210-317 sq. ft.and so on.

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ISSUES

Tenure status of the housing unit or lot

• Response is misleading if the original occupant is an informal settler (rent-free without consent of the owner) who rented out the lot or housing unit to the resident currently occupying it; the current resident would respond to this question as rented

• Does not completely identify informal settlers who belong to the marginalized sector

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ISSUES

Tenure status of the lot

• Respondents tend to readily answer that tenure status of the lot is owned even if they have no land title or they are not registered as owners of the lot, especially for those whose grandparents or relatives are holders of Ancestral Domain Title.

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ISSUES

Household’s access to internet

• No profile of the household members who have access to internet.

• Cannot provide the specific location (e.g. from internet shops, wifi in malls, office, school) for the household who has access to internet somewhere else.

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National Statistics Office

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

ISSUES

Household’s access to internet

• No profile of the household members who have access to internet.

• Cannot provide the specific location (e.g. from internet shops, wifi in malls, office, school) for the household who has access to internet somewhere else.

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Maraming Salamat!

Maraming Salamat!

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