Notes
The 2008 APIS questionnaire (APIS Form 1) contains the following sections:
Section A Identification and Other Information
Section B Demographic Characteristics
Section C Health Status
Section D1 Schooling Status
Section D2 Highest Grade Completed
Section E Economic Characteristics
Section F Housing
Section G Water and Sanitation
Section H Other Relevant Information
Section I Hunger
Section J Family Sustenance and Entrepreneurial Activities
Section K Other Sources of Income
Section L Other Receipts
Section M Family Expenditures
The description or intention of each section of the 2008 APIS questionnaire is presented below.
Identification and Other Information - contains information about the geographic identification (region, province, city/municipality and barangay, EA code, sample housing serial number and household control number), design codes (replicate, stratum, PSU No., rotation group and number of households in the housing unit) and result of visit to the sample housing unit/household.
Demographic Characteristics - obtains the demographic characteristics of each family member such as relationship to the family head, sex, age and marital status.
Health Status - obtains information on whether each family member got ill or injured a month prior to the survey and whether the illness and/or injury experienced by each member age 5 years or older is work-related or not.
Schooling Status and Highest Grade Completed - determines whether a family member aged 3 to 24 years is currently attending formal school, and if so, the grade or year level the member is currently attending. If the member is not currently attending school, then the reason for not doing so is also asked. It also determines the educational attainment of the family members 5 years old and over. This item also will give an idea on 'school readiness' among children in Grade 1 if they had attended preschool.
Economic Characteristics - obtains information on the employment status of each family member 5 years old and over. It also includes questions on occupation and business engaged in by the member during the past six months, and the salaries and wages from employment of each working family member.
Housing, Water and Sanitation - obtains information that relates to housing characteristics and household conveniences/amenities owned by the family. The main source of water supply and kind of toilet facility used were also asked.
Other Relevant Information - determines if any member of the family is a member of any health, life and/or pre-need insurance system, if any member of the family is aware of any government's program on affordable drugs/medicines, if any member of the family is a recipient of any scholarship grant from any government program or any private individual/organization, if any member of the family is aware of any lending institution or private individual whose business is lending money with interest, and if any member of the family availed of any loan, where was the loan availed of, and where did they use the money in the past six months.
Hunger - determines if any member of the family experienced hunger in the past 3 months because he/she did not have anything to eat and if any member of the family is aware of different government programs such as Ahon Pamilyang Pilipino, KALAHI-CIDSS, SEA-K, Programang Gulayan ng Masa, Tindahan Natin, Food for School, Farm to Market Roads, Patrabaho ni Pangulong Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Vocational Training, Pabasa sa Nutrisyon, Responsible Parenthood Movement Class.
Family Sustenance and Entrepreneurial Activities - determines if any member of the family is engaged in any of the following family sustenance and entrepreneurial activities: family sustenance activity, net share of crops, fruits and vegetables produced or livestock or poultry raised by other households, crop farming and gardening, livestock and poultry raising, fishing, forestry and hunting, wholesale and retail, manufacturing, community, social, recreational and personal services, transportation, storage and communication services, mining and quarrying, construction or entrepreneurial activities not elsewhere classified. This section asks for the total net income, value consumed and value given away as gifts of the products derived/produced from such activity.
Other Sources of Income - obtains information on other sources of family income not derived from work.
Other Receipts - obtains information on the sources of non-income receipts of families, that is, those that do not come from earnings, property income and gifts received.
Family Expenditures - determines the expenses made by the family purely for family members' personal consumption.