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| ==[[Catanduanes News]]== | | ==[[Catanduanes News]]== |
| '''NSO conducts consumer survey''' | | '''DSWD Bicol to give media a tour on its social services programs''' |
| *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R05&article=771334036406 | | *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R05&article=841334121408 |
| *By: PIA | | *By: Edna A. Bagadiong |
| *''April 10, 2012'' | | *''April 11, 2012'' |
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| VIRAC, Catanduanes- The National Statistics Office (NSO) in Catanduanes is administering the April 2012 Consumer Expectations Survey (CES) with the actual interviews to be conducted from April 2 to 14. | | VIRAC, Catanduanes- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office V will spearhead a media tour for local journalists on April 19 in Bagamanoc, Catanduanes. |
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| The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) in order to collect comprehensive information on the business conditions of the country in the household sector, contracted the National Statistics Office (NSO) to conduct a Consumer Expectations Survey. | | The activity aims at further understanding DSWD's three major poverty reduction programs namely: Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), Self-Employment Assistance Kaunlaran (SEA-K), and Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan- Comprehenisve and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS). |
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| It is NSO’s responsibility to undertake the data collection and encoding of the questionnaires while BSPs responsibility is the generation of tables and analysis of the results.
| | The 4Ps is a poverty reduction and social development strategy of the national government that provides conditional cash grants to extremely poor households to improve their health, nutrition and education particularly of children aged 0-14. The program has dual objectives, including cash assistance to the poor to alleviate their immediate need (short term poverty alleviation); and Social Development - to break the inter-generational poverty cycle by investing in human capital. |
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| The CES is a household-based survey on the consumers’ assessment of their financial situation, the economic condition of the country and the overall performance of the government.
| | SEA-K Program is a capability building program of the DSWD and local government units which aims to enhance the socio-economic skills of poor families through the organization of community-based associations for entrepreneurial development. |
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| The objectives of the survey are to provide a quick and regular assessment of the financial condition of the consumers and economic condition of the country at present and in the near future, from the consumers’ own view points; to generate forecasts in the direction of the country’s economic activity based on the consumers’ outlook in the next twelve months and to provide quick and regular assessment of consumers’ outlook in terms of their income and expenditures.
| | KALAHI -CIDSS is one of the flagship poverty alleviation projects of government. It supports a community-driven development approach which aims to reduce poverty. |
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| Consumer spending and saving decisions have an important influence in determining the course of the national economy. The core questions cover three broad areas of consumer sentiments: personal finances, business conditions and buying conditions. The results of the survey will guide planners in forecasting the direction of change of the economy as well as the behavior of key indicators such as inflation rate, interest rates and exchange rates.
| | DSWD has converged the said programs to create a greater impact in uplifting the economic situation of the poorest families and communities in the country. |
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| The respondent shall be the household head or any responsible member of the household present during the time of interview who can provide reliable answers to the questions asked by the enumerator.
| | Moreover, the tour will also enable DSWD to discuss and explain the status of the programs, educate the press on key terms and issues, and direct them to sources of information and news about the programs. |
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| The authority for the survey emanates from Commonwealth Act No. 591, which authorizes the NSO, under Section 2 of the act “to conduct by enumeration, sampling or other methods, for statistics purposes, studies of social and economic problems of the country. Like any other surveys undertaken by the NSO, the data that will be gathered in the said survey are for statistical purposes only and will be published in summary forms. Information obtained from the respondents shall be held strictly confidential and shall not be used for investigation, taxation and law enforcement purposes and shall not be divulged to any person except authorized NSO personnel acting in the performance of their duties.”
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| In the province, one sample barangay, will be interviewed, covering 14 sample households in Barangay Icanbato, Caramoran.
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| The reporting unit is the household which means that the statistics emanating from this undertaking will refer to the characteristics of the population residing in private households.
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| ==Catanduanes Zip Codes== | | ==Catanduanes Zip Codes== |