XU STUDE IS THE 21ST PSQ NATIONAL CHAMP

Jay Nelson T. Corbita who represents Region 10 declared as the 21st Philippine Statistics Quiz (PSQ) National Champion bested 16 other regional champions with a total score of 25 points, barely and successfully won the the title as he competed questions and answers on statistical theories and problems held on December 04, 2012 at the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Auditorium CHED-HEDC Bldg., c.p. Garcia Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City.  It was Region 10’s second PSQ championship trophy since 2007 made first by Central Mindanao University student. For this year, it was Corbita, a 16 years old BS in Mechanical Engineering student of...

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BUSINESSWEEK MINDANAO SUPPORTS NSO’s REPORT WRITING WORKSHOP

The National Statistics Office invites Businessweek Mindanao personnel Mr. Dante Sudaria,  BusinessWeek and Mindanao Daily publisher and Mr. Shaun Alejandre Uy, Businessweek Mindanao editor as guests and at same time reactants during the Report Writing Workshop on November 21, 2012 at Chali Beach Resort and Conference Center, Cugman, Cagayan de Oro City with participants from NSO provincial offices of Bukidnon, Camiguin, Lanao del Norte, Misamis Occidental and Misamis Oriental and Regional Office 10.   Each of the NSO provincial offices presents  three (3) 2010 Census of Population...

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Xavier University (Ateneo de Cagayan) RANKS # 1 in 2012 Philippine Statistics Quiz…

Xavier University, Ateneo de Cagayan bagged number one in the 21st Philippine Statistics Quiz (PSQ) Regional elimination conducted by the National Statistics Office last November 20, 2012 at Chali Beach Resort, Cagayan de Oro. It was participated by six Universities and three Colleges in region 10: Central Mindanao University of Bukidnon, Misamis University and La Salle University of Misamis Occidental, Mindanao State University of Iligan City, Xavier University and Mindanao University of Science and Technology of Cagayan de Oro, Camiguin Polytechnic State College and Fatima College of Camiguin, Misamis Institute of technology, Inc of Ozamis City and Christ the King College de Maranding of Lanao del Norte.             PSQ Regional...

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Normin’s underemployment highest in Mindanao

WHEN statistics start to speak and tell you that the January 2012 Labor Force Survey (LFS) results of the country registered an employment rate of 92.8 percent, which is not significantly different from the estimate reported in January 2011, which was 92.6 percent, what will be your outright reaction? In the same vein, when statistics will unfold before your eyes and show you another findings obtained from the survey that of the total employed persons in the Philippines in January 2012, 62.1 percent were working full time while 36.7 percent were part-time workers, what will be your immediate response? Such rhetorical questions might lead one to think critically and to start untying the entangled thread that complicates the issue on underemployment as one brings to the fore these questions...

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Aves conferred as father of brgy civil registration

         THE Philippine Association of Civil Registrars (PACR) through its President Dorotheo O. Lacbain Jr., a municipal civil registrar—conferred to Director Salvador A. Aves of the National Statistics Office, Region 10 the title Father of Barangay Civil Registration System (BCRS)" during the 5th Regional Convention on Barangay Civil Registration System held on October 11-12, 2012 at Grand Caprice Restaurant and Convention Center in Cagayan de Oro City. NSO Administrator and Civil Registrar General Carmelita N. Ericta with Director Lourdes Hufana of the Civil Registry Department and more than 1,700 participants witnessed the conferment of title to Mr. Aves. Earlier, Mr. Aves conceptualized and implemented the Barangay Civil Registration System (BCRS) whenhe introduced...

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Looking back: Stepping forward thru BCRS

A number of theories on empowerment have taken the time to evolve to make it a very substantive word. There is no doubt that the concept of empowerment has assumed an increasing interest to researchers, practitioners and even to the citizens. A very simple way of understanding empowerment is to equate it with increased awareness and increased control of one's life. One can surmise that the opposite of empowerment is powerlessness which according to Keiffer (1984) when viewed at the individual level can be seen as the expectation of the person that his/her own actions will be ineffective in influencing the outcome of life events. What has this to do with civil registration? If we were to take a look at the 2010 Census of Population and Housing, we would see that Northern Mindanao recorded...

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NSO R-10, PCAR to host N. M’nao registrars confab

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - The National Statistics Office of Region 10 (NSO-10) under the leadership of Regional Director Salvador A. Aves, and the Philippine Association of Civil Registrars (PCAR) spearheaded by its president, MCR Dorotheo O. Lacbain, has joined forces in convening the barangay officials and local civil registrars of Northern Mindanao in one forum dubbed as the 5th Regional Convention on Barangay Civil Registration System (BCRS), at Grand Caprice Convention Center on October 11-12. NSO Administrator and Civil Registrar General Carmelita N. Ericta will grace the convention as Keynote Speaker. The BCRS regional convention will revolve around the theme "Sa Barangay Nagsisimula Ang Pagbabago," according to Director Aves. Tomas P. Africa, Consultant of PARIS 21 and former NSO Administrator...

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Revisiting family income and expenditures: A better way to understand poverty issues, concerns

THE issues on poverty have arrested the attention of so many researchers who dealt with a number of studies that resulted to innumerable theories, methodologies and findings. For instance, the Global Development Research Center (http:// www.gdrc.org/icm/povertycauses.htm) in its compilation of article on the causes of poverty and related issues presented two types of poverty: Individual and Aggregate. The former is explained by individual circumstances and/or characteristics of people such as amount of education, skill, experience, intelligence, health, handicaps, age, work orientation, time horizon, culture of poverty and discrimination, together with race, sex, and others. The latter is explained by two types of aggregate poverty theory: case and generic. According to case theories of poverty,...

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Looking through one's lens

MY several readings on macroeconomics of labor markets reveal one reality, that is, the need for more studies that will address basically all sectors of the society. For instance, the study conducted by Sergiy Stetsenko of the University of Pennsylvania (2010) shows the change in behavior of fertility rate at business cycle frequencies in the United States between the 1970s and 1990s and it further shows how the cyclical and secular properties of fertility can be used to distinguish among several proposed theories that account for the rise in labor force participation of married mothers. Another study by Marion Warmuth (2007) deals with managing the aging work force and it discusses the challenges arising from it. It shows that the prejudices and discrimination attached to older employees...

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AN INSIGHTFUL LOOK AT CIVIL REGISTRATION AND RA 10172

WHEN I was reading James C. Dobson's statement about marriage which says" Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without”, I was inspired to look at the latest statistics on marriage taking place in Northern Mindanao. What I saw was the total number of marriages occurring in 2010 which registered a total of 24,484 which is 1,571 higher than that of 2009. Then I shifted to statistics on live births - the latest of which is 2009 which posted a total of 80,747 live births consisting of 41,990 females and 38,756 males with a sex ratio of 108. Birth, death and marriage statistics are the milestones of human lives, and the most common way of collecting information is through civil registration-an administrative system employed by...

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Beyond the Numbers: What Do Prices Tell?

While I was reviewing the classic work of George Stigler on the evolution of distribution theory which has been a landmark in the history of economic thought, I was motivated to write sort of a sequel to my previous article which focused on Consumer Price Index (CPI). Thus, the centerpiece of this issue is a relevant topic that has something to do with price: the Producer Price Index (PPI). In his article titled "Some Recent Developments In The Theory Of Production", Robert M. Solow of the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology stressed that "mainstream economic theory assumes that firms seek to maximize profits. Production theory, then, asks what combination of inputs (known as factors of production) will generate the quantity of output that yields maximum profit." On the other hand, we...

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A Two-digit inflation rate registered in Camiguin

A FREQUENT QUESTION raised by consumers is “how much would a specified amount of money at a certain period of time be worth today?" If you would be looking at price increases on the same basket of goods, even for just a short period of time, do you take it as enough warning of a coming periods of inflation?                Indeed, consumers and investors consider inflation as an economic phenomenon that has an increasing change in the price of goods and services. Price inflation is typically measured using the Consumer Price Index (CPI .which takes into consideration a constant basket of goods.                It is the National Statistics Office that...

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From Envisioning to Actualizing- the Digitization of Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture

I would like to start with a striking statement from  Maxwell’s 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork, the” Law of the Niche” which says that “All players have a  place where they add the most value.” And this is exactly what is going to happen- the convergence of various line agencies which puts the right people into their strength zones will definitely bring out success for the attainment of the goals and objectives of the  Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture (RSBSA) which purports to produce an electronic compilation of basic information on farmers, farm laborers, and fishermen, the target beneficiaries of agriculture-related programs and services. This is perhaps the most awaited response to the lingering problems that beset the Philippine agriculture. We know...

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Reviewing NorMin's Agriculture Statistics

THERE is one statement which provokes one to ponder , and perhaps argue with one's inner self . I am referring to this line "Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own."Definitely it is highly philosophical, but it is akin to another quotation which says : “Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands." If we were to reflect the Medium Term Development Plan (MTDP)  for 2011-2016 it states that “Agriculture is the bedrock of the rural economy. Agriculture is the major source of raw resources on which the rest of the economy depends. It accounts for 20 percent of...

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The Portrait of NorMin’s Child Labor

THE paradoxical statement from William Wordsworth's Imitation of Immortality from Recollection of Early Childhood which states that " The Child is the Father of the Man" can never be underestimated; however, it can never be ignored that children are children. Their hands are not as strong as their parents' hands. Their eyes have not yet seen the world as their parents have had. Their feelings are tender and they need every chance to grow, to develop and become individuals who can be accountable for their actions. Thus, the much quoted Iines from Chile’s Nobel Prize winning poet, Gabriela Minstral, The child cannot wait... to him we cannot answer Tomorrow; his name is Today" credit more serious attention. What then is the children situationer in the Philippines? Child labor is one of the...

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The Portrait of NorMin’s Child Labor

THE paradoxical statement from William Wordsworth's Imitation of Immortality from Recollection of Early Childhood which states that " The Child is the Father of the Man" can never be underestimated; however, it can never be ignored that children are children. Their hands are not as strong as their parents' hands. Their eyes have not yet seen the world as their parents have had. Their feelings are tender and they need every chance to grow, to develop and become individuals who can be accountable for their actions. Thus, the much quoted Iines from Chile’s Nobel Prize winning poet, Gabriela Minstral, The child cannot wait... to him we cannot answer Tomorrow; his name is Today" credit more serious attention. What then is the children situationer in the Philippines? Child labor is one of the...

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Normin’s silent heroes

The month of July witnessed several events of significant contributions to the development of the nation, such as the Blood Donor’s Month which was focused  on the theme “Be A Hero, Give Blood” and the Nutrition Month which revolved the theme “Pagkain ng Gulay Ugaliin, Araw-araw Itong Ihain.” Such celebrations proved the relevance of the saying “Homo homini Deus est.” This supreme practical maxim fits very well the purpose driven life, because the purpose of life is not primarily “to be happy - -but to matter, to be productive to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.” And this, indeed, defines the lives of our blood donors who unselfishly donate blood so that others may have another chance to live. Statistically speaking, “Five to ten minutes of your...

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THE DREAM, THE CHALLENGE, THE PROMISING DEVELOPMENT

THE President's 3rd SONA has brought joy and hope to the Filipino people especially when the President delivered these inspiring lines. "But what we know about our people, and what we had proven time and again to the world was this: Nothing is impossible to a united Filipino nation. It was change we dreamed of, and change we achieved; the benefits of change are now par for the course." Indeed, we are glad to know the very promising transformation from being the "sick man of Asia to one who now beams with vitality with a growing GDP by 6.4 percent which is said to be much higher than projected. It was a great relief to hear comments that "Once, we were the debtors; now, we are the creditors.” How will this apply to Northern Mindanao? Checking the revenue performance statistics of Northern...

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Pill remains the top choice of contraception in Normin

Pill remains the top choice of contraception in Normin                           Population problems have been man’s concern since ancient time. Matters concerning the need to stimulate or retard population growth had received various opinions from statesmen and thinkers whose concerns ranged from political to social and economic considerations until modern population theory emerged in the current time. Thus, some economists had said that the use of contraceptives in modern times had made it possible to check population growth effectively making the ‘preventive checks’ and ‘positive checks’ introduced by Malthus irrelevant and obsolete.             Speaking of contraceptives,...

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