This paper is presented at the Third National Convention on Statistics at the Philippine International Convention Center on December 13-14, 1982. It argues that while statistical system continues to evolve into more detailed and complex activities to satisfy the demand of data users, gaps still...

This article is part of the NEDA-PIDS Seminar-Workshop on the Philippine System of National Accounts. It discusses data linkages, especially those that are related to improvements in national account (NA) estimation methodology. It contains the following: the application of the flow account...

This article is part of the NEDA-PIDS Seminar-Workshop on the Philippine System of National Accounts. It reports what has been achieved after the last workshop held last November 1976. It also discusses the more pressing problems and issues relating to the balance of payment and government...

What has not been explored in the traditional measures of poverty is the extensive set of categorical variables that indicate standard of living and are already available from existing survey data. What precluded researchers from deriving poverty and welfare gauges from these data is the...

This paper is presented at the Third National Convention on Statistics on December 13-14, 1982. The 1979 Diary Family income and Expenditure Survey (DFIES) has utilized the diary method of data collection to minimize, if not eliminate, errors and biases arising from the traditional recall-record...

This article is part of the NEDA-PIDS Seminar-Workshop on the Philippine System of National Accounts. This paper examines foreign transactions as recorded in the national accounts and the balance of payments statements. While these statements have different uses, consistency between the two is...

This article is part of the NEDA-PIDS Seminar-Workshop on the Philippine System of National Accounts. It discusses the government data system focusing on the Office of Budget and Management, Bureau of Treasury and Commission on Audit. Accounts of government are classified. It also lays down...

From a theoretical standpoint, the question has to be asked whether or not the census should retain its present definition of urban areas. There is a need for a more meaningful integration of the structural, institutional and demographic criteria, if the term is to hold substantive meaning. In...

This paper aims to broaden people’s knowledge in which the country’s official corn statistics are produced. It presents the estimation procedures used for area, production and yield. Comparisons are made among the estimators sourced from official and design estimates and from independent...

Being the most important Philippine crop, this study concentrates on the evaluation study of the coconut industry. The results are hoped to provide insights to the quality of statistics on the agricultural commodities classified as “other crops” and to offer wider assessment of the quality...