14 January 2021 – Ilocos Region. The Philippine Statistics Authority – Regional Statistical Services Office I (PSA-RSSO I) will conduct the Women and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Development Index (WIDI) Survey, the first national survey on ICT focusing on women and girls in the country.

The WIDI aims to enrich the domain of women and ICT by establishing key indicators that will capture the situation of women focusing on aspects of the Digital Economy, ICT Access and ICT Usage that are affecting women the most.  It hopes to provide a more in-depth study of women and ICTs, especially on documenting how ICTs are used to expand women’s social, economic and livelihood opportunities.

The enumeration will be conducted for 24 days, starting on 31 January until 26 February 2022. A total of 1,595 randomly selected sample households in the region will be interviewed and it will be using the Computer-Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) mode of data collection.

The WIDI Survey is a collaborative activity between the PSA and the Department of Information and  Communication Technology (DICT).

The PSA enjoins the public to support this survey of the PSA and DICT.  The PSA also appeals to the sample households to cooperate and provide truthful, complete, and accurate information to the enumerators. The respondents are assured that data to be collected in the survey shall be covered by the confidentiality of information clause under Section 26 of Republic Act 10625, which stipulates that 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.