Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS)

Name of Organization: 
Philippine National Statistics Office
Geographical Scope: 
Type of Initiatives:
Country
Regions:
  • Asia and the Pacific
Country:
  • Philippines
Purpose: 
General Objectives:
 
To provide inputs to integrated poverty indicator and monitoring system, which is designed to provide timely, accurate and consistent production of poverty-related data for uses at the national level for policy-making and development planning Specific Objectives:
 
To gather data on the socio-economic profile of families and collect other information that relates to their living conditions.
 
Demand that prompted the initiative: The Philippine National Statistics Office is mandated to undertake decennial census of population, housing, agriculture and fisheries and demographic and socio-economic surveys under the Commonwealth Act 591 Target Population 40,992 sample households
Area of Governance : 
Economic Governance
Publications: 
1998 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS) Final Report 1999 APIS Final Report 2002 APIS Final report 2004 APIS (data processing on-going)
Cost (specify currency): 
21 080 000.00 PHP (2004)
Funding sources: 
Philippine Government
Source of Data: 
Own source of data
Type of Data Collection: 
Administrative Data
Random sample population survey
Specifications of type of data collection: 
The 2004 APIS utilized the 2003 Master Sample for household-based surveys of the PNSO, comprising 2,835 primary sampling units. A PSU consisted of one barangay or a group of 2 or more contiguous barangays with at least 500 households. The 2004 APIS used a stratified multi-stage stratified survey design. This involved selecting the PSUs at the first stage, selecting enumeration areas within the sample PSUs at the second stage and selecting housing units within sampled Eas at the third stage.
Measurement Methods / Tools Generated or Used : 
The APIS contains combination of qualitative and quantitative questions to attain its objectives.
List of Indicators: 

% of families (below 40% income strata and above 60% income strata) with: access to health facilities; access to basic education; access to safe water; access to sanitary toilet; strong housing units without working children.

Other indicators that relate to poverty.

Main Users: 
Civil society
Donor agencies
International agencies
Media
Other
Policy makers
Researchers