Folks stroll alongside a road market in Quiapo, in Manila, Philippines, July 11, 2023. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez/File Picture
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The officers of the Philippine Statistics Authority in Central Visayas (PSA-7) assured that they’ve taken information safety measures for the gathering of census data this 12 months.
Chief statistical specialist Leopoldo Alfanta Jr. from PSA-7’s Statistical Operations and Coordination Division, together with PSA-Cebu senior statistical specialist Emmanuel Abellana, mentioned on Wednesday the measures being taken by the company for the 2024 Census of Inhabitants and Group-Based mostly Monitoring System (POPCEN-CBMS).
Considered one of PSA’s key measures addresses information safety considerations.
The POPCEN-CBMS is scheduled to run from July 15 to September 10, with a submission deadline to the President on December 27, 2024.
To forestall scams the place people pose as census enumerators, Alfanta acknowledged they’ll comply with their commonplace protocol.
Enumerators might be supplied with identification playing cards (IDs), t-shirts, luggage, tumblers, and umbrellas. They may even bear coaching to make courtesy calls earlier than conducting home visits.
Moreover, enumerators should go to the native authorities workplace or barangay corridor to inform authorities of their goal earlier than visiting households.
Alfanta talked about that PSA’s funds for the census is roughly P5.2 million, with the most important bills allotted to expertise purposes for information assortment, aiming to reduce paper utilization throughout operations.
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“Prime of the road, extremely popular model, and the Philippine authorities spent P76,000 tablets for this operation,” Alfanta mentioned.
In the meantime, in Central Visayas, notably in Cebu, Abellana talked about that they’ve 4,035 tablets for enumerators. In addition they have additional tablets from earlier use that may very well be allotted for staff supervisors, together with greater than 400 tablets for their very own use.
Abellana defined that the tablets can be used offline for information gathering. Earlier than beginning dwelling visits, every pill should go browsing to activate security measures like VPN (digital personal community) and to add gathered information.
“Ang tablets used kay registered siya, if mawala siya, ang information pwede ma take away or erase. Ang enumerators dili unhappy kadali-dali ug entry kay naay encryption,” Abellana mentioned.
Alfanta added that there can be a minimum of three follow-up visits after the preliminary dwelling go to if nobody is out there to be interviewed.
If nobody continues to be accessible throughout these visits, households will obtain a self-administered questionnaire with directions on methods to full it. The enumerator will then acquire the questionnaire and embrace it of their information assortment.
“Kolektahon pud balik sa enumerator, kay kahibalo man siya kinsa iya gihatagan diha ug self-administered questionnaire. Unya papitlan pud na siya ug sticker that’s the mark nga ang kana siyang explicit housing unit is already visited….gibutangan pud na siya ug indicator na gi callback siya.” Alfanta mentioned. /clorenciana
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