PSA XI conducts 2nd visit of the 2021 family income and expenditure survey

DAVAO CITY —Regional Statistical Services Office XI will conduct the  Visit 2 of the 2021 Family Income and Expenditures Survey (FIES) on 10 to 31 January 2022  in all provinces of the Region. It is a rider survey to the January 2022 Labor Force Survey  (LFS).  

The FIES is a nationwide household-based survey conducted every three years in two  separate visits. The first visit was undertaken last July 2021 with January to June 2021 as the  reference period and the second visit will be conducted in January 2022 with July to December  2021 as the reference period.  

It gathers data on Filipino family income and living expenditure levels and patterns; determines  sources of income and income distribution, levels of living and spending patterns; provides  benchmark information to update weights in estimating consumer price index. The data  collected from FIES will be utilized primarily to generate estimates on poverty incidence and  threshold, and magnitude of poor families in the Philippines. 

Around 9,500 sample households in the region will be visited and interviewed for the second  visit FIES. For Davao Region about 338 Statistical Researchers are hired to conduct the data  collection in the provinces of the region using the Computer-Aided Personal Interview.  

The period for the January 2022 LFS and 2021 FIES Visit 2 will start on 10 January 2022.  

In view of this, PSA Davao Region encourages everyone, especially the selected sample  households in the provinces of the region, to support and cooperate in the conduct of the 2021  FIES Visit 2. The participation of the household respondents in providing truthful, complete  and accurate information to the interviewers is very important in the success of this  undertaking. Rest assured that individual data furnished by the respondent shall be kept  strictly confidential under Section 26 of Republic Act 10625, which stipulates that individual  data furnished by a respondent to statistical inquiries, surveys, and censuses of the PSA shall  be considered privileged information and such shall be inadmissible as evidence in any  proceeding.