The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)-La Union Provincial Statistical Office implements the 4^th Quarter 2023 Livestock and Poultry Surveys, which include the Commercial Livestock and Poultry Survey (CLPS) and the Backyard Livestock and Poultry Survey (BLPS), on 20 to 30 November 2023, and 1 to 10 December 2023, respectively, to measure the performance of the livestock and poultry industry.

The CLPS aims to collect information on inventory, supply and disposition, and other related data of livestock and poultry commodities from the livestock and poultry establishments in the country. It is conducted quarterly for all types of animals such as swine, layer, broiler, carabao, cattle, goat, sheep, and duck.

Meanwhile, the BLPS is designed to collect information on inventory, supply, and disposition of livestock and poultry commodities at the household level. The data that will be gathered in this survey include type of operation; inventory, born live/hatched live, acquired; sold live for slaughter and for other purposes; slaughtered/dressed in the household; number of deaths; average liveweight; average farmgate price; egg production indicator for poultry; and milk production for carabao, cattle and goat.

The data that will be generated for both surveys will be disseminated through Situation Reports (quarterly and annual) and infographics. The production data that will be generated from the surveys will serve as direct inputs to the Value of Production of Agriculture and to the computation of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

In La Union, the PSA hired four Statistical Researchers (SRs) who will visit the sample farms for CLPS and five SRs who will visit the sample households for BLPS. The CLPS has a total of 70 sample farm establishments while the BLPS has a total of 320 sample households from 16 sample barangays.

The authority and mandate of the PSA to conduct the CLPS and BLPS emanates from Republic Act (R.A.) No. 10625 known as the Philippine Statistical Act of 2013 which states that, “the PSA will be primarily responsible for all national censuses and surveys, sectoral statistics, consolidation of administrative recording system, and compilation of national accounts.”

The PSA enjoins the commercial farm operators and backyard raisers to support and participate in the survey by providing truthful, complete, and accurate information to the SRs. All data obtained will be held strictly confidential as stipulated in Section 26 of R.A. 10625 and Section 8 of R.A. 10173 or the Data Privacy Act.

SGD. DANITES E. TEÑIDO, PhD 
Chief Statistical Specialist

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