Concept and Definition

Building	A building is defined as any structure built, designed or intended for the enclosure, shelter or protection of any person, animal or property. It consists of one or more rooms and/or other spaces covered by a roof and usually enclosed within external walls or with common dividing walls with adjacent building, which usually extend from the foundation to the roof.
Child Dependency Ratio	Pertains to the number of economically dependent persons aged 0-14 years old divided by the number of the working age population 15 to 64 years old.
Close Pit	A type of toilet without a water-sealed bowl and the depository is constructed usually of large circular tubes made of concrete or clay covered on top and has a small opening. It may or may not have a box for sitting or squatting over the opening.
College Education	The stage of formal education following the secondary education, which covers the programs on all courses of study that leads to a bachelor’s degree.
Construction Materials of the Outer Walls	The kind of materials for outer walls used are categorized into strong materials (concrete/brick/stone, half concrete/brick/stone and half wood, galvanized iron/aluminum); lights materials (wood, cogon/nipa/sawali); and salvaged or makeshift materials (improvised materials).
Construction Materials of the Roof	The kind of roof materials used are categorized into strong (galvanized iron/aluminum, tile/concrete/clay, half galvanized iron and half concrete and asbestos); light (wood/cogon/nipa/anahaw) and salvaged or makeshift (improvised materials)
Construction Material of the Roof and Walls	Provide information on the construction, replacement and improvement of housing units. These materials determine how many of the households are housed in structurally acceptable housing units. Structurally acceptability of housing units implies that these be built of durable construction materials that will safeguard the household occupants from adverse climatic effects and provide protection and privacy.
Dependency Ratio	A measure relating the proportion of the dependents or non-working age population to the total working age population
Dug Well	A type of source of drinking water used by the household to get water supply, which maybe provided with a protective device against contamination or pollution. A shallow well (dug and with water depository) which is provided pump and cover and is free from seepage from the sides, and an ordinary dug well (“balon”) also belong to this type.
Employed	Refers to employed persons who during the reference period are 15 years old and over as of their last birthday and are reported either: At work – those who do any work even for one hour during the reference period for pay or profit, or work without pay on the farm or business enterprise operated by a member of the same households related by blood, marriage or adoption; or With a job but not at work – those who have a job or job business but are not work because of temporary illness/injury, vacation or other reasons. Likewise, persons who expect to report for work or to start operation of a farm or business enterprise within two weeks from the date of the enumerator’s visit.
Employment Status	Refers to two interrelated facts: (1) whether a person is a member of the labor force, and (2) whether a person does hold a job.
Highest Educational Attainment	Refers to the highest grade of formal education a person has completed or year completed in school, college or university.
Homelot	Land used mainly for residential purposes of the agricultural operator, regardless of its location.
Household	An aggregate of persons, generally but not necessarily bound by kinship, who live together under the same roof, and eat together or share in common the household food. A person who lives alone is considered as one household.
Housing Unit	A housing unit is a structurally separate and independent place of abode which, by the way it has been constructed, converted or arranged is intended for habitation by one or more households. Structures or parts of structures not intended for habitation such as commercial, industrial, and agricultural buildings, or natural and man-made shelters such as caves, boats, abandoned trucks, culverts, etc., but used as living quarters by households are also considered as housing units.
Land Under Temporary Crop	Land planted to crops that are grown seasonally and whose growing cycle is less than one year and which must be sown or planted again for production after each harvest. Land, which is planted with herbaceous forage crops mainly for sale is classified as under temporary crops even if part of the produce is used as feeds for livestock. Land planted with kangkong, alogbati, and similar plants whose growing cycle may be less than, equal to, or more than a year, and need not be replaced after each harvest shall be considered as under temporary crops. Land planted to crops which are grown for more than a year but have to be replaced after harvesting like cassava is also classified as land under temporary crops.
Land Under Permanent crop	Land planted to crops that occupy the land for a long period of time and do not need to be replaced after each harvest like fruit trees.
Literacy	Simple literacy is the ability to read and write a simple message. A person is literate when he can both read and write a simple message in any language or dialect
Marital Status	Refers to the personal status of each individual in reference to the marriage laws or customs of the country.
Median Age	Maybe defined as the age that divides the population into two equal-size groups, one which is younger and the other older relative to the median.
Mother Tongue	Defined as the language or dialect spoken at home at birth or during childhood.
Open Pit	It is an open-dug type of toilet on the ground with or without circular tubes and without enclosure.
Own Use, Faucet, Community Water System	The household gets water from a faucet inside the house/yard directly connected to a community water system such as the metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) or the local water network system.
Own Use, Tube/Piped Deep Well	Source of water is taken from deep well at least 100 feet (5pieces of 20 feet pipes) or 30 meters deep, for private use of the household.
Pail System Toilet facility	Human waste is accumulated in a pail to be picked up for disposal from time to time.
Parcel	One contiguous piece of land under one form of tenure without regard to land use. Both the contiguity and one form of tenure conditions should be met for a piece of land to be classified as one parcel. Contiguous means that the piece of land is not separated by natural or man-made boundaries like road, river, canal, etc., that are not part of the holding.
Peddler	Refers to a person who sells water, usually referred to as “aguador”. Included are bottled water like mineral water, water bought in drums, pails, etc. These are the usual sources of water supply for households in low water pressure areas with no community water system.
Population Density	A simple concept relating population size to land usually expressed in persons per sq. km. It is sometimes referred to as the man-land ratio
Population Pyramid	Graph of the age-sex structure of the population. The slope of the pyramid describes the fertility and mortality patterns of a population in the past.
Post Graduate	The stage of formal education beyond a baccalaureate degree with specialization that leads to a higher degree or master’s degree and a highest degree or doctoral degree.
Post Secondary Education	The stage of formal education following the secondary education covering the non-degree programs that may last for at least three (3) months to three (3) years, concerned primarily with developing strong and appropriately trained middle-level skilled manpower possessing capabilities supportive of national development.
Religious Affiliation	This refers to a particular system of beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors constituting man’s relationship with the powers and principalities of the universe
‘Safe’ sources of drinking water	Sources of water that come from the community water systems and piped or tubed deep wells. The 2000 CPH distinguishes between ‘community water sources’ and tubed or piped deep wells and subdivide their user households into those who have their own private water faucet and those whose share a faucet with a group of other households. Community water systems and piped or tubed deep wells are considered ‘safe’ sources of drinking water. All others are not.
Sewer/Septic Tank	A tank in which the solid matter or sewerage is accumulated to be disintegrated by bacteria. This is commonly called “poso-negro”.
Shared, faucet Community Water System	The household gets its water from the faucet of another household, establishment, or office, which is connected to the community water system.
Shared, Tube/Piped Deep Well	Water taken from deep well at least 100 feet or 30 meters deep of another household establishment or office, or from a deep well constructed for public use.
Spring, Lake, River, Rain, etc.	The household gets its water supply from natural bodies of water, or water is accumulated from rainfall.
Secondary Education	The stage of formal education following the elementary education, concerned generally with four (4) years of continuing basic education including the learning of employable/gainful skills.
Sex Ratio	Pertains to the number of males per 100 females in the population
Simple Literacy	The ability of a person to read and write with understanding a simple message in any language or dialect.
Tenure	The right under which a holding/parcel is held or operated. A holding may be operated under a single form of tenure or under more than one form, in which case each form of tenure should be reported separately. A parcel may be owned, rented, leased or held under other forms like those held as mortgage, on squatter basis or rent-free.
Total Fertility Rate	TFR represents the total number of children a woman at the beginning of her childbearing career will have if she survives to the end of her reproductive life and bears children at the age-specific birth rates prevailing at the time of observation.
Underemployed	Includes all employed persons who express the desire to have additional hours of work in their present job or an additional job, or to have a new job with longer working hours. Visibly underemployed persons are those who work for less than 40 hours during the reference period and want additional hours of work
Unemployed	Include all those who, during the reference period are 15 years old and over as of their last birthday who have no job/business and actively looking for work. Also considered as unemployed are persons without a job or business, who are reported not looking for work because of their belief that no work available or because of temporary illness/disability, bad weather, pending job application or waiting for a job interview.
Unemployment Rate	Refers to all production of unemployed persons in the labor force to the total economically active population
Water-sealed, Sewer/Septic Tank, used exclusively by the household	Water sealed, as the name implies, is the type of toilet where after flushing or pouring water into the bowl, a small amount of water is left and that seals in the bottom of the bowl from the pipe leading to the sewer or septic tank.
Water-sealed, Other depository, Used exclusively by the household	This depository is the serve water sealed bowl as described above not connected to a sewer or septic tank.
Women of Childbearing Age (15-49)	Refers to the total number of women aged 15-49 in the population regardless of their marital status.

 

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