Social and Economic Trends in Regions I
Social and Economic Trends in Regions V
Social and Economic Trends in Regions VI
Social and Economic Trends in Regions VIII
Social and Economic Trends in Regions IX

The Publication Contents & Uses

Presents major social economic developments at the regional and sub-regional levels in data series with textual analysis and graphical illustration added to highlight significant trends designed to address the need of local government planners and decision makers in the exercise of their devolved functions and to provide local business enterpreneurs and other investors with data useful in making marketing plans, decisions and strategies

Time Span of Data Contents

Data series ranging from 3-12 years with monthly breakdown for the latest annual data for some sectors

Geographic Area Code

Regional, provincial, city and municipality for some indicators

Data Contents

Among the data series that can be found in each regional RSET are:

Agriculture and agrarian reform:

• No. and area of farms
• Area harvested/planted, total production and yield by major crop
• Livestock and poultry inventory by specie and number slaughtered in abattoirs
• Area and production of inland fishponds
• Quantity of marine fish landed
• Status of CARP implementation, land acquisition and distribution and scope of CARP coverage
• Emancipation patents generation

Economic accounts:

• Total and per capita
• Gross regional domestic product
• Growth rates, implicit price index and inflation rate of gross regional domestic product

Education:

• Enrolment and number of schools/institutions
• Physical conditions of classrooms/school buildings
• Number of teachers
• Household population 7 years old and over by highest grade completed and literacy rate
• Participation, cohort survival, completion, graduation, transition, retention, drop-out, and repetition rates
• Teacher-pupil, desk-pupil and classroom-class rations
• NCEE performance

Energy and water resources:

• No. of municipalities and barangays energized
• Service connections
• Power generation and distribution/consumption and power rates
• No. and service area of existing communal and private irrigation systems, number and Membership of existing irrigators associations and farmer beneficiaries

Environment and natural resources:

• Status of land classification and land use cover
• Volume and value of mineral production
• Forest resources production/utilization
• Fish production; area reforested and forest destruction
• Climatological data

Establishment characteristics: industrial sector;

• Number of establishments
• Number, floor area and value of private building construction

Income and prices:

• No. of families by income class, expenditure class and main source of income
• Total and average family income, expenditures and savings
• Poverty threshold and incidence
• Consumer price index
• Inflation rate

Labor and employment:

• Population 15 years old & over, labor force participation rate and employment, underemployment and unemployment number/rate and employment status
• Gainful workers 15 years old and over; employment of local governments
• Nominal and real basic minimum wage rates
• Labor productivity
• Labor turnover rates

Money and banking:

• No. of offices of the financial system
• Loans granted by type of bank
• Loans outstanding by type of financial institution

Population and housing:

• Population and growth rate and projections
• Land area and population density
• Sex ratio and age composition and age dependency ratio and marital status; number of migrants
• Language or dialect generally spoken
• Household population
• Households in occupied dwelling units by type of building, construction material of roof and outer wall, with household appliances/conveniences, lighting used, cooking fuel, type of toilet facilities and main source of drinking water
• Housing units occupied and vacant
• Estimated housing need
• Rental price index
• Housing loan extended by GSIS/HDMF and DBP
• Number of floor area and value of residential houses construction

Public order, safety and justice:

• Volume of crime
• Incidence of fire and value of damaged properties
• No. of policemen and firemen

Social welfare and services:

• Outreach headcount
• No. of day care centers and SF/FFG centers
• No. of direct social welfare service workers and average caseload
• No. of disabled persons
• No. of depressed barangays served
• No. of rebel returnees
• No. of beneficiaries of self-employment projects

Trade and tourism:

• Volume and value of exports by port
• Visitor and tourist arrivals
• Distribution of travellers
• No. of hotels and lodging houses and corresponding number of rooms
• Average occupancy rate of hotels and lodging houses
• Major tourist attractions and major festivals

Transportation and communication:

• Road density
• No. and length of bridges
• Inventory of existing roads
• Motor vehicle registered and permits/licenses issued and revenue collection and number of apprehension cases filed
• No. of telecommunication facilities
• Telephone distribution
• Existing radio stations
• No. of post offices, postal stations and mail carriers and mail and parcel volume handled

Vital, health and nutrition:

• Registered live births, marriages and deaths
• Fertility, crude birth and crude death rates
• Infant foetal and maternal deaths
• Morbidity and ten leading causes
• Mortality and ten leading causes
• Projected life expectancy; number of hospitals and bed capacity and bed population ratio
• Number of DOH facilities and health manpower and ratio of health centers to population
• Price index of medical services
• Coverage of immunization program
• Nutritional status of children age 0-7 years/pre-school children
• Population served with potable water source and with sanitary toilet facilities

No. of Pages:      Ranges from 200-420 pp.

Other Dissemination Format:       Diskette

Publisher

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