Frequency of Publication and Date of Release

Annual (maiden issue released in 1994)

The Publication Contents and Uses

Provides a comprehensive summary of statistical indicators on the situation of children and women and traces the changes in their status over time serving as an important tool for planning, advocacy and mobilization

Time Span of Data Contents:  Annual from as early as 1970 (for some indicators)

Geographic Area Covered

National, regional, 7 provinces (i.e., Ifugao, Negros Occidental, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu, Basilan and Tawi-tawi) and 4 cities (i.e., Bacolod City, Cadiz City, Cebu City and Cotabato City)

Data Contents

Demographic status:

• Fertility rate
• Population distribution and projections and percentage of infants, children and women

Education status:

• Literacy, completion and drop-out rates
• Educational services and access to education:
• Cohort survival rate
• Government expenditures per pupil
• Literacy rate of women
• Net participation rate
• Teacher-pupil ratio

Employment:

• Employed children
• Health services:
• Per capita expenditure for health
• Health manpower resources to population
• Births attended by trained health personnel
• Infants, school entrants and pregnant women immunized

Health status:

• Children reported with diarrhea cases
• Physician-population ration
• Midwife-population ration
• Barangay Health Workers-population ration
• Live births, total deaths, deaths under 1 year and maternal deaths
• Infant, child and under 5 and maternal mortality rates
• Leading causes of infant and maternal mortality

Housing facilities:

• Households with safe water supply and sanitary toilet facility

Nutritional status:

• Proportion of new-born infants with low birth weight
• Percentage of underweight pre-schoolers to total pre-schoolers
• Prevalence of anemia, goiter and clinical signs of Vitamin A deficiency, nightblindness and Bitot’s Spot

Social welfare services:

• Disadvantaged children and youth served
• Per capita government expenditure for social welfare services

Socio-economic and environmental context:

• Total per capita Gross National Product, Gross Domestic Product, Personal Consumption Expenditure
• Average family income and expenditure
• Inflation rate
• Age dependency ration
• Employment rate of women
• Incidence of poverty
• Households in owner-occupied dwelling units
• Total government expenditures for social
• Services
• Annual population growth rate

No. of Pages:  116 pp.

Other Dissemination Format:  CDROM/Diskette

Publisher

Agency: National Statistical Coordination Board
Address: 2F Midland Buendia Bldg., 403 Gil Puyat Avenue
  Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
Telephone Nos.: 895-27-67/890-94-05/890-31-35
Fax Nos.: 890-94-08/890-31-35
E-mail: info@nscb.gov.ph
Website: http://www.nscb.gov.ph
Unit: Social Sectors Division
Telephone No.: 890-96-78
Fax No.: 896-17-30