WELCOME INTO YOUR HOMES THE POPULATION CENSUS ENUMERATORS
Starting August 1, when someone knocks on your door, with a bag on his or her shoulders and papers on his or her hand, you don’t shut the door right away, she or he is not a sales or a promo person!
Wait a while as he or she identifies herself as an enumerator for the 2007 Census of Population. Make sure she or he presents his or her identification card. Welcome him or her into your home. This enumerator is including you and your household members, including overseas workers, in the complete count of all residents, both Filipinos and foreigners who have stayed or are expected to stay for at least a year in the Philippines .
The census enumerators will gather population data through house-to-house visits and personal interview of the household head or any responsible member of the household.
Special areas such as exclusive subdivisions and condominiums shall be enumerated using a self-administered questionnaire to be filled out by the respondent. To make sure that every body is counted, institutional populations such as those living in hospitals, sanitaria, penitentiaries, military camps, convents, seminaries and others, shall also be covered.
Do not worry that the information you will give to the enumerators will be used for other purposes. Section 4 of Commonwealth Act No. 591 guarantees that any information obtained during enumeration shall be held in strict confidentiality and that it must not be communicated to any person except bona fide employees of the National Statistics Office.
Mind you! There is a penalty for refusing to give information or for providing false information to census enumerators. Section 3 of Commonwealth Act No. 591 provides penalty, upon conviction, a fine of not more than P600 or imprisonment for not more than 3 months, or both, to any person who unjustifiably refuses to furnish the information called for in the census questionnaire, or to any person who knowingly gives data or information which shall be proven to be materially untrue.
The 2007 Census of Population shall be undertaken to provide current data on population counts, which shall be the basis for the Internal Revenue Allotment and the creation of new local government units or conversion of some of the existing local government units to higher level, pursuant to the provisions of the 1991 Local Government Code.
The statistics derived from the Census of Population will be used in the formulation of policies, preparation of plans and programs concerning population; restricting and apportionment of congressional seats, allocation of resources and revenues and creation of political and administrative units.
In business and industry, the statistics will be helpful in determining sites for establishing business, determining consumer demands for various goods and services and for determining supply of labor for the production of goods and services.
The statistics derived from the Census of Population will also be useful for research and academic institutions particularly in the conduct of researches on population and other disciplines, study and design of small area statistics and study of population growth and distribution as basis in preparing projections.
The enumeration will start on August 1, 2007 and will last for about 25 days only. So, welcome the enumerators into your homes and be counted.
Wait a while as he or she identifies herself as an enumerator for the 2007 Census of Population. Make sure she or he presents his or her identification card. Welcome him or her into your home. This enumerator is including you and your household members, including overseas workers, in the complete count of all residents, both Filipinos and foreigners who have stayed or are expected to stay for at least a year in the Philippines .
The census enumerators will gather population data through house-to-house visits and personal interview of the household head or any responsible member of the household.
Special areas such as exclusive subdivisions and condominiums shall be enumerated using a self-administered questionnaire to be filled out by the respondent. To make sure that every body is counted, institutional populations such as those living in hospitals, sanitaria, penitentiaries, military camps, convents, seminaries and others, shall also be covered.
Do not worry that the information you will give to the enumerators will be used for other purposes. Section 4 of Commonwealth Act No. 591 guarantees that any information obtained during enumeration shall be held in strict confidentiality and that it must not be communicated to any person except bona fide employees of the National Statistics Office.
Mind you! There is a penalty for refusing to give information or for providing false information to census enumerators. Section 3 of Commonwealth Act No. 591 provides penalty, upon conviction, a fine of not more than P600 or imprisonment for not more than 3 months, or both, to any person who unjustifiably refuses to furnish the information called for in the census questionnaire, or to any person who knowingly gives data or information which shall be proven to be materially untrue.
The 2007 Census of Population shall be undertaken to provide current data on population counts, which shall be the basis for the Internal Revenue Allotment and the creation of new local government units or conversion of some of the existing local government units to higher level, pursuant to the provisions of the 1991 Local Government Code.
The statistics derived from the Census of Population will be used in the formulation of policies, preparation of plans and programs concerning population; restricting and apportionment of congressional seats, allocation of resources and revenues and creation of political and administrative units.
In business and industry, the statistics will be helpful in determining sites for establishing business, determining consumer demands for various goods and services and for determining supply of labor for the production of goods and services.
The statistics derived from the Census of Population will also be useful for research and academic institutions particularly in the conduct of researches on population and other disciplines, study and design of small area statistics and study of population growth and distribution as basis in preparing projections.
The enumeration will start on August 1, 2007 and will last for about 25 days only. So, welcome the enumerators into your homes and be counted.
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