TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol (PIA)—As the Census on Population (Popcen) as well as the Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS) enumeration continues in Tagbilaran City, Dauis and Panglao towns, Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) urges people who may have been skipped by the enumerators to call their office.
Now focused in the enumeration of respondents in the three most populated areas in metro Tagbilaran, the PSA and their army of enumerators are expected to complete the CPH and the CBMS within the month so the overall data can be updated.
A part of the nationwide effort to gather comprehensive and accurate data on the country’s population and housing characteristics, popcen is essential for formulating effective development plans and policies at the local and national levels, explains PSA Bohol statistician Jessamyne Anne Alcazaren.
The data becomes the basis for government to set up development plans and appropriate resources, she explains.
On the other hand, the PSA is also supervising the LGUS to gather and update local data as a diagnostic tool for the country to use in bringing its people out of poverty through developmental social policies that provide adequate social services, deliver a rising standard of living, promote full employment, and make available an improved quality of life for all.
As the country recognizes the need to adopt focused and specific measures that will ensure poverty reduction wherein citizens have access to social protection and welfare programs that address their minimum basic needs. The State further recognizes that a system of public spending that warrants government allocation on areas and populace that are most wanting is necessary in lifting people out of poverty.
In this context, the CBMS generates updated and disaggregated data necessary in targeting beneficiaries, conducting more comprehensive poverty analysis and needs prioritization, designing appropriate policies and interventions, and monitoring impact over time.
Now with laws assuring privacy, both popcen and CBMS profess to abide by the policy on respect of the fundamental human right of privacy, ensure data quality, and uphold data protection principles of legitimate purpose transparency, and proportionality.
As the ongoing enumeration, particularly in data collection for CBMS, critical in updating the country’s data used in the government’s Listahanan, Alcazaren said it is very important for all to be interviewed and be very attentive to the CBMS data collection.
Because of this, the public is encouraged to provide support and participate in the successful implementation of this enumeration.
When they come, please be honest, be truthful with the responses, she reminds, hinting that if the data collected is poor, analysis from the same data will also be poor. (rahc/PIA_7/Bohol)
