Resolutions Approved by the NSCB Executive Board

Series of 2003

NSCB Resolution No. 11

Series of 2003

Annex-BR-11-2003-1

APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE OFFICIAL CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS FOR STATISTICAL
PURPOSES OF THE SELECTED SECTORS: PRICES, POPULATION, HOUSING, AND TOURISM

Glossary of Official Definitions for Statistical Purposes

POPULATION

Age Dependency Ratio – is the ratio of persons in the “dependent” ages (generally under age
15 and over age 64) to those in the “economically productive” ages (15-64 years) in the
population. It is sometimes divided into the old-age dependency (the ratio of people aged 65
and older to those aged 15-64 years) and the child dependency (ratio of people under 15 to
those aged 15-64 years)

Age Specific Fertility Rate – the number of births to women of a given age group per 1,000
women in that age group. It is calculated by dividing the number of births to women of a
particular age group by the female population in that age group multiplied by 1,000.

Crude Birth Rate – is the ratio of the number of births during a specified period (e.g., one year)
to the total number of persons in the mid-period population or July 1 of the same year

Family - a group of persons usually living together and composed of the head and other
persons related to the head by blood, marriage or adoption. It includes both the nuclear and
extended family.

Family, Extended - group consisting of a biological family as a nucleus, together with the kin in
the direct or indirect line of one member or members of the nucleus, or group consisting of
several family nuclei.

Family, Nuclear – unit composed of father, mother and own children living together.

Family Size - number of members present in the family.

General Fertility Rate – is the number of live births per 1,000 women aged 15-49 in a given year
Household - a social unit consisting of a person living alone or a group of persons who sleep in
the same housing unit and have a common arrangement in the preparation and consumption of
food.

Household Population – the population enumerated in private households during a census.

Household Size - number of usual members in a private household.

Human Development Index - measure of how well a country has performed, not only in terms
of real income growth, but also in terms of social indicators of people’s ability to lead a long
and healthy life, to acquire knowledge and skills, and to have access to the resources needed to
afford a decent standard of living.

Institutional Population – the population enumerated during a census living in large

institutions, such as national prisons and penal colonies, provincial and large city jails,
tuberculosis sanitaria, mental hospitals, leprosaria, military, mining and logging camps, etc. The
cut-off is more than 6-months duration.

Life Expectancy ( ) – represents the average number of years remaining to a person who
survives to the beginning of a given age or age interval x.

Life Expectancy at Birth ( )– is defined as the number of years a newborn child can be expected
to live under a given mortality condition of an area in a given year

Marital Status - status of an individual in relation to marriage, classified as follows: a) Single - A

person who has never been married; b) Married - A couple living together as husband and wife,
legally or consensually; c) Divorced - A person whose bond of matrimony has been dissolved
legally and who therefore can remarry; d) Separated - A person separated legally or not from
his/her spouse because of marital discord or misunderstanding; and e) Widowed - A person
whose bond of matrimony has been dissolved by death of his/her spouse.

Migration – the movement of people across a specific boundary for the purpose of establishing
a new or semi permanent residence. Two distinct types are international migration (migration
between countries) and internal migration (migration within a country)

Migration Rate - the ratio of migrants to the total mid-year population during a given period
expressed per 1,000 population.

Mother Tongue - the language or dialect first spoken in the individual's home in his early
childhood, although not necessarily spoken by him at present.

Net Migration Rate – shows the net effect of migration on an area in a given time period. This
is expressed as the increase or decrease in the population of the area as a result of in-migration
and out-migration per 1,000 population.
Population – total number of individuals in a territory at a specified time. It covers both
nationals and aliens, native and foreign born persons, internees, refugees and any other group
physically present within the borders of a country at a specified time. In assembling national
demographic statistics for publication, the basic aim has been to obtain data for the physically
present (or de facto) population rather than for the legally established resident (or de jure)
inhabitants.

Population Census – the total process of collecting, compiling, evaluating, analyzing and
publishing demographic, economic and social data pertaining to all persons in the country or in
a well-limited territory.

Population Change – is the growth or decline of the total population or one of its structural
units

Population Density - refers to the number of persons per unit of land area (usually in square
kilometers). This measure is more meaningful if given as population per unit of arable land.

Population Distribution - the patterns of settlement and dispersal of a population.

Population Growth Rate – indicates how fast a population increases or decreases as a result of
the interplay of births, deaths, and migration during a given period of time. Where the
population is closed, meaning no migration, the population growth rate is the same as the rate
of natural increase, i.e., the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths
during a specified period of time. The three methods for computing the rate of growth based
on the assumption with respect to the change are: arithmetic change, geometric change and
exponential change.

Population Projection – computation of future changes in population numbers, given certain

assumptions about future trends in the rates of fertility, mortality and migration.
Demographers often publish high, medium, and low projections of the same population based
on different assumptions of how these rates will change in the future

Population Pyramid – diagram usually a bar chart depicting the distribution of a given
population by age and sex. By convention, the younger ages are at the bottom, with males on
the left and females on the right

Rural Area – an area outside any area classified as urban

Sex Ratio – the number of males per 100 females in a population

Total Fertility Rate – the average number of children that would be born alive to a woman (or
group of women) during her lifetime if she were to pass through her childbearing years
conforming to the age specific fertility rates of a given time period.
Urbanization - in general, the historical process describing the growth of towns in modern
society, implying a change in the socio-economic and demographic structure of a population, an
urban way of life and new settlement.

Urban Barangay

"(1) If a barangay has a population size of 5,000 or more, then a barangay is considered
urban, or

(2) If a barangay has at least one establishment with a minimum of 100 employees, a
barangay is considered urban, or

(3) If a barangay has 5 or more establishments with a minimum of 10 employees, and 5 or

more facilities, then a barangay is considered urban. Note that if the facility is not present in
the barangay, presence of facilities within the two kilometer radius from the barangay hall is
considered."

Working Age Population - refers to population 15-64 years old at a specified time. The working
age population is divided into persons in the labor force and persons not in the labor force.

HOUSING

Dwelling Unit - a separate and independent place of abode intended for habitation, or one not
intended for habitation but occupied as living quarters by a household at the time of the
census. A dwelling unit may be a group of rooms or just one room, barong-barong, boat or
cave.

Households, Double-Up - also termed as hidden household, it refers to the number of

households in excess of the number of dwelling units at the same time of census, assuming a
ratio of one household per dwelling unit. A household with a separate arrangement for food
preparation and consumption but shares the dwelling unit of another household is considered
hidden or doubled up.

Household Head - the person who generally provides the chief source of income for the
household unit. He is the adult person, male or female, who is responsible for the organization
and care of the household or who is regarded as such by the members of the household.

Household, Institutional - groups of persons living in collective type of dwelling, such as

boarding houses (with 10 or more boarders), hotels, boarding schools and colleges, penal
establishments, chronic diseases hospitals, military installations, etc. The households of
institutional directors and administrative personnel with separate living quarters are considered
as private households.

Housing Density - the number of houses or dwelling units per unit area of land.
Housing Inventory/Stock - a listing of or the total number of dwelling units existing at a certain
place and time.

Housing, Standard - a building which meets legal structural and functional criteria as defined
under BP 220 (prescribing minimum designs and standards for socialized and economic
housing)

Housing Unit - 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 household.
Structures or parts of structures which are not intended for habitation such as commercial,
industrial, and cultural buildings or natural and man-made shelters such as caves, boats,
abandoned trucks, culverts, and others, but which are used as living quarters by households.

Institution - any set of premises in a permanent structure or structures designed to house

usually large groups of individuals who are subject to a common authority or regime or bound
by a common public objective and/or personal interests and characteristics. In this type of
housing unit, occupants of the same sex usually share dormitories. It includes hospitals, military
barracks, boarding schools, convents, prisons, etc.

Institutional Buildings (hospital/convent/school dormitory/penal institution, etc.) - a building

intended for persons confined to receive medical, charitable, or other treatment such as jails
and penal colonies, and other buildings like convents, school dormitories, etc.

Squatter (or informal dwellers) - one who settles on the land of another without title or right
or without the owner’s consent whether in urban or rural areas.

Tenure Status of the Housing Unit - the housing may be:

a. Owned/Being Amortized - the household is the owner and has legal possession
of the housing unit, or the household claims to own it. Includes also housing
units which are being amortized or on mortgage;
b. Rented - the occupant actually pays rent either in cash or in kind;
c. Being occupied for free with consent of owner - the household occupies the
housing unit with owner's permission and without paying any rent in cash or in
kind to the owner, tenant/lessee or subtenant/sublessee. These are usually the
households of farm tenants or lessees who occupy rent-free houses belonging to
the owner of the land they farm; also those employees given free housing as part
of fringe benefits but must vacate the housing unit upon separation from work;
and
d. Being occupied for free without consent of owner - the household occupies the
housing unit without the consent or knowledge of the owner. Examples are
squatters who occupy public and private buildings.

PRICES
Consumer Price Index (CPI) – Indicator of the change in the average prices of a fixed basket of
goods and services commonly purchased by households relative to a base year.

Inflation Rate - the annual rate of change or the year-on-year change in the Consumer Price
Index.

Producer Price Index (PPI) - statistical measure of the average changes in average prices of a
basket of goods as they leave the establishment of the producers relative to a base period.

Producer Price Index (PPI) for Agriculture - statistical measure of the average changes in
average farmgate prices of a basket of goods relative to a base period.

Purchasing Power of the Peso - a measure of the real value of the peso in a given period
relative to a chosen reference period. It is computed by getting the reciprocal of the CPI and
multiplying the result by 100

Retail price - the price at which a commodity is sold for spot in small quantities for
consumption.

Retail Price Index (RPI) – statistical measure of the changes in the prices at which retailers
dispose of their goods to consumers or end-users relative to a base year.

Wholesale Price – the average price of a commodity transacted in bulk for further resale or
processing.

Wholesale Price Index (WPI) - statistical measure of average changes over time in the
wholesale prices of commodities relative to a base year.

TOURISM

Resident - An institutional unit is resident in a country when it has a center of economic

interest in the economic territory of that country.

Center of economic interest - it is said to have a center of economic interest when there exist
some location-dwelling, place of production or other premises-within the economic territory
on, or from, which it engages, and intends to continue to engage, in economic activities and
transactions on a significant scale either indefinitely or over a finite but long period of time.

Tourism - Comprises the activities of persons traveling to and staying in places outside their
usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other
purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited.

Inbound Tourism - Tourism of non-resident visitors within the economic territory of the
country of reference.
Outbound Tourism - Tourism of resident visitors outside the economic territory of the country
of reference.

Domestic Tourism - Tourism of resident visitors within the economic territory of the country of
reference.

Visitor - Any person traveling to a place other than that of his/her usual environment for less
than 12 months and whose main purpose of trip is other than the exercise of an activity
remunerated from within the place visited.

Tourist - Visitor who stays one or more nights in the place visited.

Same-Day Visitor - Visitor who does not spend the night in a collective or private
accommodation in the place visited.

Usual Environment - Corresponds to the geographical boundaries within which an individual

displaces himself/herself within his/her regular routine of life; consists of the direct vicinity of
his/her home and place of work or study and other places frequently visited.

References:

1. 1985 NEDA Glossary of Terms in Statistics

2. NSCB Philippine Statistical Yearbook
3. Compendium of Philippine Social Statistics (CPSS), 1991
4. Economic and Social Indicators (ESI), 1998
5. NSO Census of Population and Housing
6. NSCB Regional Social and Economic Trends (RSET)
7. Haupt Arthur and Thomas Kane, Population Handbook:
Washington DC: Population Reference Bureau, 1998
8. Popcom Handbook on Basic Demographic Concepts
9. Shryock, Henry S. and Jacob S. Siegel and Associates.
The Methods and Materials of Demography, NY:
Academic Press, 1976
10. Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB)
11. Technical Committee on Price Statistics)
12. 1993 System of National Accounts
13. April 2000: “TSA Methodological Reference”; UN-EROSTAT-OECD,WTO
14. 1994: “Recommendations on Tourism Statistics:, UN/WTO