First Ever National Migration Survey Underway

The first ever National Migration Survey is underway, it started on July 9, 2018.

This is according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Regional Director Wilma Perante in a press release.

The survey aims to provide information on the mobility of the Philippine population to assist policy makers and program managers in evaluating and designing strategies to improve services and assistance to people going abroad or moving within the country.

PSA along with the University of the Philippines System (UP System) through the UP –Philippines Population Institute (UPPI), Perante said is doing the survey.

Enumerators recruited by PSA are also doing Labor Force Survey (LFS) and Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) throughout the region, Perante said.

The LFS seeks to gather data on demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the population.

The 2018 FIES aims to gather date on family income and expenditures and levels of consumption per expenditure where results provide inputs in the estimation of poverty threshold and incidence.

“It also determines the levels of living and disparities in income of Filipino families and their spending patterns,” said Perante.

The PSA appeals to the public to cooperate and support the different surveys at the same time assuring the public that the information will be held strictly confidential and shall not be used as evidence in court for purposes of taxation or investigation as provided by law.

“Data generated from these surveys will be disseminated in statistical summaries without reference to any individual person or household,” said the PSA regional chief. (ajc/Nbq/PIA 8-E. Samar)