DAVAO CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development hired 200 workers to encode the Listahanan Survey, a database of poor households to identify beneficiaries of social protection services.
DSWD Region 11 Director Priscilla N. Razon said the workers will encode the filled out Family Assessment Form (FAF) of the enumerators.
“The encoded data will then be subjected to a proxy means test (PMT) which calculates the family’s approximate income using 52 proxy socio-economic variables that predict household income and allow for objective ranking, classification, and prioritization of families,” she said.
“To fast track the process, we have mobilized some of our regional staffs to assist in data encoding,”added Razon.
Razon said data being generated include family size, educational attainment, access to health center, toilet facilities, electricity, water source, roof materials, as well as prevalence of displacement, disability, senior citizens and solo parents.
Mae P. Valentin, Listahanan regional field coordinator said with 2,354 enumerators, DSWD XI will cover 793,770 households and to date, a total of 429,797 families have been already interviewed.
“The list of poor households will be posted in municipalities/barangays for validation purposes. Queries and complaints received on the accuracy or veracity of the list will be verified by the Local Validation Committee (LVC),” Valentin said.(davaotoday.com)
