PIA Davao Region

DAVAO CITY, Feb. 2 (PIA) – The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) of Davao Occidental has deployed in late January the mobile registration in the municipalities of Malita and Sta. Maria to resume the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) registration for the year 2022.   PSA Davao Occidental Provincial Officer Jessie A. Madulin said that the PhilSys mobile registration is currently in operation in the barangays of Little Baguio, Fishing Village, Lacaron and Buhangin in Malita.     In Santa Maria, the residents of Basiawan, Poblacion and San Agustin can avail of the mobile registration.   As of December 31, 2021, PSA Davao Occidental has registered a total of 206,498 registrants from the five municipalities of the province since the beginning of the registration on February 23, 2021, Madulin bared.   He said that PhilSys Phase 1 which was administered in February to May 2021 has garnered 165,519 registrants from 10 registration centers.   The mobile registration approach of Phil

  MALITA, Davao Occidental, Jan. 28 – The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) – Davao Occidental provincial office is expected to complete its January 2022 Labor Force Survey (LFS) and 2021 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) by end of January this year.   Jessie A. Madulin, PSA Davao Occidental chief statistical specialist, said that his office hired 52 statistical researchers to interview 1,540 sample households from the different barangays of the five municipalities in the province.   The statistical researchers are using the Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) during the interviews, Madulin said in a press release.   He added that the researchers have been trained to equip them with the concepts and definition, related knowledge, enumeration strategies and responsibilities to ensure quality of output and compliance to targets and survey requirements.   Madulin explained that the LFS is a nationwide quarterly survey of households conducted by PSA that aims to pr

DAVAO CITY, Oct. 22 (PIA) – The Philippine Statistics Authority Davao Occidental has already recorded 182,359 residents or 97 per cent of the 187,000 target population in the province, who have completed registration with the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) as of October 20, 2021.   Davao Occidental Provincial Statistics Officer Jessie Madulin is hoping that the remaining 5,000 population targeted this year will register before the year ends.   During his guesting in today’s Gobyernong Balitaan radio program of the Philippine Information Agency Davao Occidental on Energy FM Digos City, Madulin bared that the total registrants of the national ID system represents 57% of the total population (317,159) of the province.   To ensure continuous registration of residents in far-flung barangays, the PSA official said that they are currently employing mobile registration in selected barangays.   In the Municipality of Malita, the registration activities are located in the following b