PSA undertakes 2016 Household Survey on Domestic Visitors

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Issue No. 13, Series of 2016
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), in partnership with the Department of Tourism (DOT), will undertakes the 2016 Household Survey on Domestic Visitors (HSDV).  The 2016 HSDV is the fifth in the series to be conducted in the country since 2005. The said survey will be conducted in November 2016 nationwide, with April 1 to September 2016 as reference period.
 
The primary objective of the survey is to gather household-based data on domestic tourism that are vital to the effective and efficient development and implementation of tourism plans and programs.  The survey shall provide comprehensive information on domestic tourism for policy-making purposes.  Specifically, the survey aims to: (a) measure the volume of domestic and international visitors of Philippine households; (b) updated the profile and travel characteristics of domestic and outbound visitors; (c) identify the travel patterns of the household members 15 years old and over; and (d) estimate the extent and economic contribution of domestic and international visitors in the country.
 
The 2016 HSDV involves the collection of data on domestic travel and also data on the volume and details of travel outside the country.  It covers a nationwide sample of 17,892 households of which 384 households are from Region I, deemed sufficient to measure the levels and pattern of domestic travel at the national level and city level for selected Highly Urbanized Cities (HUC) in the National Capital Region (NCR).
 
By virtue of Section 26 of RA 10625, individual data furnished by a respondent to statistical inquiries, surveys, and censuses of the PSA shall be considered privileged information and such shall be inadmissible as evidence in any proceeding.  The PSA releases data gathered in the form of summaries or statistical tables, in which no reference to an individual, corporation, association, partnership, institution or business enterprise shall appear.  In addition, all personnel involved in this survey are required to keep strictly confidential any information obtained during the survey that pertains to any particular household or person.
 
 
 
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SOCRATES L. RAMORES
Regional Director
 

 
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