The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) – La Union Provincial Statistical Office, in partnership with seven participating Local Government Units (LGUs) of La Union namely: Aringay, Bacnotan, Bagulin, Bangar, Burgos, Pugo, and Rosario, officially started the enumeration for the 2022 Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) Nationwide Rollout on August 8, 2022 and will run until October 5, 2022.   

Among the seven municipalities participating in the project, the municipality of Bagulin is funded solely by the PSA while the municipalities of Burgos and Pugo are cost-shared by the PSA and the LGU. The four remaining municipalities are funded by their respective LGU.

A total of 70 hired field personnel, consisting of seven Head CBMS Area Supervisors (HCAS), one CBMS Area Supervisor (CAS), ten Team Supervisors (TS), and 52 Enumerators (ENs) were hired by PSA-La Union to carry out the CBMS field operations. The ENs will use the Computer-Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI), a technology-based application system, to capture data in the Household Profile Questionnaire (HPQ). All field personnel were instructed to strictly abide with the minimum health and safety protocols while conducting the interview.

The CBMS involves the collection, processing, and validation of disaggregated data that may be used in planning, program implementation, and impact monitoring at the local level.  It aims to provide information that will enable the generation of more locally disaggregated statistics that will warrant government allocation on areas and populace that are most wanting.

Republic Act (RA) No. 11315, otherwise known as the Community-Based Monitoring System Act, signed on April 17, 2019, states that there will be a regular and synchronized conduct every three years. The PSA is mandated to implement the CBMS along with an established CBMS Council composed by the PSA, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), and Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT).

A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was entered into by the PSA, represented by Atty. Sheila O. De Guzman, Regional Director of the Regional Statistical Services Office I (RSSO I); the DILG Regional Office represented by Julie J. Daquioag, Ph. D., CESO III, and the respective Local Chief Executive of the seven participating municipalities.

The PSA enjoins all households in the participating municipalities to support the conduct of the 2022 CBMS.   All hired personnel involved in the 2022 CBMS nationwide rollout accomplished an Oath of Privacy and will strictly adhere to the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (RA 10173). Section 19 of the said act states that “personal information shall be held under strict confidentiality and shall be used only for the declared purpose.”

“Swak na Datos para sa Komunidad na Mas maayos - CBMS, para sa Atin ‘to!”

SGD. DANITES E. TEÑIDO, Ph.D.

Chief Statistical Specialist

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