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Factsheet RV-FS#02, Series of 2006 Did you know that . . . high cost of education is now the key reason for not attending school? The result of the
2003 Functional Literacy and Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS)
revealed that the population 6-24 years old cited high cost of education for
not attending school. It can be recalled that the 2002 Annual Poverty
Indicators Survey (APIS) in 2002 revealed that population in the same age
group cited “lack of personal interest” for not attending school. The shift
made “high cost of education” as the top reason (27.1 percent) and placing
“lack of personal interest”, the top reason in 2002, as the 2nd reason (24.6
percent) in 2003.
“High cost of education” also posted the greatest increase of 4.1 percentage points between the two reference years. At 27.1 percent, it also posted higher percentage of respondents who gave the same reason in the 2002 APIS. In the 2002 APIS, “high cost of education” garnered only 23.0 percent. This result is an indication that education is now becoming a luxury that more people are not able to afford. |
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A comparison of the
1994 and 2003 FLEMMS showed that basic literacy rates increased only by 0.10
percentage points while functional literacy decreased by 2.70 percentage
points during the periods under review. Surprisingly, both basic and
functional literacy rates of those with no grade completed/preschool
increased between 1994 and 2003 by 9.7 and 2.5 percentage points
respectively. On the other hand, basic and functional literacy rates of
those in the elementary level and elementary graduates decreased with
functional literacy rate among elementary graduates having the greatest
decrease at 8 percentage points. Simply put, those in the elementary level
and elementary graduates in 1994 were more literate than those in the same
levels in 2003. The need to arrest such deterioration in literacy among
Bicolanos must be done soonest in view of the increasing competitiveness in
job placements. |
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While the results painted a rosy picture of females being more literate than men, the general problem in the weakening literacy among Bicolanos in general have to be addressed. In addition, the problem on the high cost of education does not affect only one gender – it cuts across both males and females and this is most felt by the 40.5 percent of the Bicolano families living below the poverty line. Employability of a person is dependent on the education he/she has attained; however, marketability of graduates is anchored on the quality of education that has molded them. Source of basic data: FLEMMS, National Statistics Office Date posted: April 7, 2006 |
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National Statistics Office (NSO) conducts both surveys. 
Between
males and females, females are more literate than men. In 1994, the gap
between males and females was 0.2 percentage points for basic literacy and
3.3 percentage points for functional literacy. The gaps further widened in
2003 when females posted 2.5 percentage points higher than men in basic
literacy and 7.2 percentage points in functional literacy than their male
counterparts. In fact, the males posted decreases in basic literacy rate
(1 percentage point) and functional literacy rate (4.6 percentage points)
from 1994 to 2003. Females, on the other hand, posted only 0.7 percentage
points decrease while exhibiting 1.3 percentage points increase in basic
literacy rate during the same period.