PSA Bataan Conducts 2015 FIES

CITY of BALANGA, Bataan – The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Bataan will conduct the 2015 Family Income and Expenditure (2015 FIES), which is a nationwide sample survey designed to provide income and expenditure data for the data for the country and its 17 administrative regions, starting July 8, 2015.

Ten hired statistical researchers (SRs) are currently attending the third level training of 2015 FIES at the Sapphire Room, Crown Royale Hotel, Balanga City, Bataan from June 22 to 29, 2015. These SRs will enumerate 17 barangays from Abucay (Capitangan), Balanga (Cabog-cabog and Tenejero), Dinalupihan (Luacan, Naparing and New San Jose), Hermosa (A. Rivera, Mabuco, San Pedro and Sumalo), Mariveles (Alion, Balon Anito, Cabcaben and Poblacion), Morong (Poblacion), Orani (Puksuan) and Pilar (Alauli) through a house-to house visit to sample establishments during the enumeration period.

Provincial Statistics Officer Ledesma L. Morante emphasized in her opening remarks, the importance of the survey in determining the Human Development Index, thus she asked “Enumerators, please commit to give your best in conducting the interview because this is a very difficult survey”. Statistician Francisco P. Corpuz also serves as trainer, along with PSO Morante for the six-day training.

The data that will be obtained from the FIES shall be used to provide inputs in the estimation of the country’s poverty threshold and incidence and as basis for policies and programs of the government to improve the economic conditions of the Filipino people. The 2015 FIES is the seventeenth survey undertaken since 1957.

Undertaken every three the years since 1985 using the shuttle type questionnaire, 2015 FIES shall be conducted in two separate operations as rider to the July 2015 LFS this year and the January 2016 LFS.