NSO conducts income, expenditure and labor surveys
The National Statistics Office (NSO) is currently conducting two surveys in some 65 sample barangays in the city and province of Iloilo including Guimaras.
The two surveys are the 2006 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) and the Labor Force Survey (LFS).
In line with this around 52 personnel of NSO - Iloilo including hired Statistical Researchers have been visiting respondents in some 1,184 sample households in these areas since January 10 until January 31.
The FIES is conducted every three years while the LFS is conducted quarterly. For the FIES, this is the second visit to the respondents as the first visit was conducted last July 2006.
The FIES aims to gather data on income and family living expenditure and related information affecting income and expenditure levels and patterns in the Philippines and to determine the sources of income and income distribution, levels of living and spending patterns, and the degree of inequality among families.
Likewise, it aims to provide benchmark information to update weights in the estimation of consumer price index (CPI) and to provide inputs in the estimation of the country's poverty threshold and incidence.
On the other hand, the LFS is conducted to get the socio-economic characteristics of the population. These data are used for the estimation of the levels of employment and unemployment in the country.
(PIA)