FOR the government to obtain new data which it can objectively base its plans for the country’s development, data in its decisions and a framework upon which it can put flesh to embody its programs, the Philippine Statistics Authority embarks on yet another large-scale government undertaking in its Census of Agriculture and Fisheries (CAF) this September, 2023.
During the recent Provincial Statistics Council meeting held at the BODARE conference hall, PSA Bohol Provincial Statistician Jessamyne Anne Alcarazen said the activity which would be conducted once every ten years, was last undertaken in 2013 using 2012 as reference period.
She has also asked for inter-agency support to the PSA and its field enumerators for the nation-wide undertaking.
The census is geared towards the collection and compilation of basic information on the agricultural and fishery sectors in the country, according to Alcazaren.
It aims to determine the structural characteristics of agriculture and fisheries, provide the sampling frame for the conduct of periodic agricultural and fishery surveys and other related statistical undertaking, gather data for use in national as well as subnational development planning and provide the basic data on agricultural and fisheries facilities and services, explains PSA Bohol statistical specialist Blesila Paredes.
In the conduct of the survey, its target respondents are households; where all households in the sample barangay would be listed and all households with at least one operator would be enumerated.
Incumbent barangay officials would also be interviewed regarding the presence of services and facilities as well as fisheries operations and then all establishments and organizations are also listed respondent in the non-household category.
These are business establishments, cooperatives, associations, universities, institutions, national government agencies, government owned and controlled corporations, local government units and international organizations.
These non-household respondents with crop farm, livestock and poultry farm, aquafarm and fishing operations would also be interviewed.
The magnitude of the undertaking also demands census personnel, some 288 in all who could be field enumerators, information systems analysts, assistant statisticians, clerks, accounting clerks, 20 census area supervisors, 20 assistant area supervisors and 58 team supervisors, Paredes said.
As to data processing, PSA would also hire 1 data processing supervisor and 38 data processors.
And with this nation-wide undertaking, recognizing the increasing importance of census data in meeting data needs at the lowest geographic level, the PSA hopes on assistance and coordinative support hat government agencies, GOCCs and local government units can provide to be instrumental in this year’s census success.
The PSA through the InterAgency Committee on Agriculture and Fishery Statistics has obtained resolution endorsements enjoining national government agencies to provide assistance for the conduct of the CAF. (PIA-7/Bohol)
GRATEFUL RECOGNITION. PPDO officer Maria Trinidad Caseñas, who is retiring from government service receives a plaque for her services as secretariat head of the Provincial Statistics Council even as the council solicits interagency help and cooperation in the upcoming 2023 CAF thins September. (PIABohol)
