August 1 is POPCEN 2015 reference date

CITY of BALANGA, Bataan – The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) will conduct the 2015 Census Population on August 10, 2015 nationwide, using reference date of August 1, 2015, 12:01 am. This means that all persons to be enumerated as members of a household or as residents of an institutional living quarter will be as of 12:01 am, August 1, 2015.

“It’s like taking a picture of the entire country at that exact moment. People should know about the reference date of the POPCEN 2015 for them to be able to give the correct count of household members as of August 1, 2015, 12:01” said by Interim Provincial Statistics Officer Ledesma L. Morante during the POPCEN 2015 Third Level Training.

PSA Bataan is currently undertaking the first batch of fourth level trainings of team supervisors and enumerators from July 27 to August 1, 2015 in the municipalities of Abucay, Bagac, Mariveles, Morong, Orani and Orion. The second batch will be from August 3 to 8, 2015.

The POPCEN 2015, which is a complete enumeration of households in the country, is designed primarily to take an inventory of the entire population of the Philippines. It also collects information about basic characteristics of the population such as age, sex, marital status, religious affiliation, and highest grade/year completed. It is a source of data on the size, distribution, and composition of the population for different geographic units, that is, from the national down to the barangay level. These data are vital in making rational plans and programs towards national and local development.

In August 2015, the POPCEN 2015 to be undertaken will be the 14th census of population in the country since the first census in 1903. Moreover, the POPCEN 2015 will be the 3rd population census to be conducted in between two decennial censuses. Previous to POPCEN 2015, mid-decade censuses were carried out in 1995 and 2007.