04 April 2022 – Ilocos Region. Philippine Statistics Authority - Regional Statistical Services Office I (PSA -RSSO I) Officials, Chief Statistical Specialists, Focal Persons and Statistical Researchers from the four  Provincial Statistical Offices (PSO) attend the Second Level Training  for the 2022 National Demographic and Health Survey (2022 NDHS).  The three-week training started on 04 April 2022  at the City of San Fernando, La Union. 

The 2022 NDHS is the twelfth in a series of demographic surveys conducted every five years since 1968.

It is a national sample survey designed to provide information  on population, fertility, family planning, marriage, child health,  child survival, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), reproductive health, nutrition, gender issues, and tobacco and alcohol childhood development will be collected in this NDHS round.  

This undertaking will involve interviewing respondents from randomly

selected households, and within selected households,  women who are 15 to 49 years old. These respondents will be asked about their background, the children they have given birth to,  their knowledge and use of family planning methods, the health of their children, their awareness of HIV/AIDS and STIs, and other information that will be helpful to policymakers and program planners in health  and family planning fields.

The enumeration period for this survey will commence on 02 May  until 21 June 2022.