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 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 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...

This article presents the revision made to the 1991 System of National Accounts that initially covered the years 1980-1987. The whole link series from 1946-1990 has been completed while the sources and methods of the revised system are still being finalized for publications.

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...

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...

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...

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 is presented at the Third National Convention on Statistics on December 13-14, 1982. The move to strengthen the Philippine economic statistics comes at a very opportune time when the Philippine government is implementing a major industrial restructuring program. While each ministry...

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...