Survey of Tourism Establishments in the Philippines 2014
Philippines, 2015
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Survey of Tourism Establishments in the Philippines 2014
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Philippines | PHL |
Enterprise Survey [en/oth]
The 2014 STEP was the second survey round conducted and covered only the tourism characteristic industries.
Considering tourism as driver and contributor to the economic growth of the country, a national policy on tourism was passed - the Republic Act Numbered 9593 otherwise known as Tourism Act of 2009.With this Act, the State declares tourism “as an indispensable element of the national economy and an industry of national interest and importance, which must be harnessed as an engine of socio-economic growth and cultural affirmation to generate investment, foreign exchange and sense of national pride for all Filipinos”. Moreover, the Philippine Statistical Development Plan provides the blueprint of development of the tourism industry. This is in recognition of the importance, role and impact of tourism on the social and economic development and environment and cultural landscape in the country. Therefore, there is a need to measure the economic contribution of tourism as an input to effective and efficient policy research, monitoring, analysis and development of the tourism industry.
The Philippine Tourism Satellite Account (PTSA) provides the framework by which the economic contribution of tourism is measured. Using this account, it is possible to quantify the contribution of tourism industry in the economy within the context of the Philippine Systems of National Accounts (PSNA).
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) conducted the 2014 Survey of Tourism Establishments in the Philippines (STEP) second round. The 2014 STEP was a nationwide survey of establishments in the formal sector engaged in tourism characteristic industries. This survey collected information on the available supply of tourism goods, products and services, which are valuable inputs in the compilation of the PTSA.
The general objective of the 2014 STEP is to provide data on tourism characteristic establishments in the country.
Specifically, the 2014 STEP aims to:
- provide data on the supply and capacity in terms of facilities and services
- gather data on employment by sex and nationality
- gather data on revenue generated from tourist
- provide information on indicators for future expansion and/or renovation plans
Sample survey data [ssd]
Establishment - defined as an economic unit, which engages, under a single ownership or control, i.e. under a single legal entity, in one or predominantly one kind of economic activity at a single fixed physical location. Thus, stores, shops, transport companies, hotels, restaurants, banks, insurance companies, real estate development companies and the like are considered establishments.
Version
2016-07-29
Scope
The scope of the study includes:
- economic activity or business in 2014
- employment as of 15 November 2014
- facilities/amenities and usage in 2014
- transport facilities in 2014
- revenue in 2014
- plans for expansion/renovation within the next five years
- DOT accreditation in 2014
- certification
| Topic | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Business statistics | Philippine Statistics Authority |
| Tourism | Philippine Statistics Authority |
| Business and agricultural surveys | Philippine Statistics Authority |
Coverage
Establishment with Total Employment (TE) 20 and Over - National and Regional Level
Establishment with TE Less than 20 - National Level
Establishments are also classified by geographic area using the Philippine Standard Geographic Code (PSGC) classification. The PSGC contains the latest updates on the official number of regions, provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangays in the Philippines. The latest PSGC as of December 31, 2014 was used for the 2014 STEP.
All tourism characteristic establishments operating in 2014.
Tourism characteristic industries as defined in the IRTS 2008 (International Recommendation of Tourism Statistics) with grouping according to industry sub-class (5-digit) of the 2009 PSIC.
It covered the following tourism characteristic industries:
- Accommodation (I55 except I55901- Dormitories/boarding houses);
- Chartered buses and cars operation (e.g. tourist buses, rent-a-car) (H49204 and H49324).
The other tourism characteristic industries were taken on a sampling basis.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Philippine Statistics Authority | National Economic and Development Authority |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Government of the Philippines | Full funding |
Sampling
In general, the establishment with total employment (TE) 100 and over is a certainty stratum for industries covered in the 2014 STEP.
For the purposes of 2014 STEP, only the following tourism characteristic industries regardless of employment size were completely enumerated (100% coverage):
- I55101 - Hotel and motels
- I55102 - Resort Hotels
- I55103 - Condotels
- I55104 - Pension Houses
- I55105 - Camping sites/facilities
- I55109 - Other shorts term accommodation activities
- I55909 - Other accommodation
The sample establishments in the sampling strata of TE of less than 20 were selected using systematic sampling by industry domain and employment stratum at the national level. For each industry domain and employment stratum, the establishments are sorted by region, province from largest actual employment to smallest actual employment, business name and ECN.
For each of the sampling strata of TE of 20 and over (i.e. TE 20-49 and TE 50-99) sample establishments were selected using systematic sampling within the region. For each region in the employment stratum and industry domain, the establishments are sorted by province from largest actual employment to smallest actual employment, business name and ECN.
Systematic sampling was chosen so that the sample employment values were spread out, resulting from having representative samples for each TE size in the employment stratum. Likewise, this mode of sampling provided implicit stratification of TE by employment size group, thus avoiding all sample establishments with low TE values or high TE values.
Total response rate as of 30 September 2016 for all establishments by tourism characteristic industry was 85.2 percent (6,142 out of 7,210 establishments).
Of the total responses, 65 establishments responded online.
For certainty stratum, the weight is equal to 1.
For sampling strata,
Weight Adjustment Factor for Non-Response
To account for non-response in the non-certainty strata, the adjustment factor (n/n') was multiplied with the sampling weight (W) of each of the sampling unit. The sampling weight, defined as N/n, was recomputed as
W' = N/n*n/n' = N/n'Thus, the adjusted weight (W'sj) for employment stratum in TE of 1-9 or TE of 10-19 was
W'sj = Ns/ns * ns/n's = Ns/n'swhere:
Ns = total number of establishments in the employment stratum in TE 1-9 or TE 10-19 in the sth industry domain
n's = number of responding establishments in the employment stratum in TE 1-9 or TE 10-19 in the sth industry domain
For the non-certainty employment stratum for the industry domain with TE 20-99, the adjusted weight (W'spj) was
W'spj = Nsp/nsp * nsp/n'sp = Ns/n'spwhere:
Nsp = total number of establishments in the non-certainty employment stratum with TE 20-99 for the industry domain within each geographic domain (region)
n'sp = number of responding establishments in the non-certainty employment stratum with TE 20-99 for the industry domain within each geographic domain (region)
Survey instrument
The following questionnaires were used in the survey:
- STEP Form 1: Accommodation
- STEP Form 2: Restaurants
- STEP Form 3: Transport Operators; Tour and Travel Agencies
- STEP Form 4: Health and Wellness
- STEP Form 5: Other Tourism Activities
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2015-05-04 | 2015-07-24 |
| Start date | End date | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-01 | 2014-05-31 | All data items (except Total Employment and Seasonal Workers) |
| 2014-11-01 | 2014-11-15 | Total Employment (as of) |
| 2014-01-01 | 2014-12-31 | All data items (except Total Employment and Seasonal Workers) |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Philippine Statistics Authority | National Economic and Development Authority |
To ensure quality of data during operations, close supervision of enumeration was undertaken by RDs/PSOs/OICs/Regional and Provincial Statisticians. Central office statisticians also conducted supervision in some areas with large number of establishments.
All information collected in the 2014 STEP refers to calendar year of 2014, except for employment, which is as of 15 November 2014.
Data processing
Manual processing took place in Provincial Offices at a number of stages throughout the processing, including:
- coding of some data items
- editing of questionnaires
- completeness of entries check
- consistency check among variables
Data processing was done in Field Offices and Central Office.
Field Offices:
- completeness and consistency edits
- folioing of questionnaires
Central Office:
- online data encoding and updating
- online validation
- completeness and consistency checks
- summarization
- tabulation
Data appraisal
Not computed
Data estimates would be checked with those from other related surveys or administrative data.
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Statistician | Philippine Statistics Authority | www.psa.gov.ph | info@psa.gov.ph |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | The PSA and its field personnel shall hold all data supplied by the establishments/households/individuals in confidence. The information obtained from each respondent of the census/survey or individual/establishment in administrative records shall be for statistical purposes only and not for taxation, regulation nor investigation purposes. The data shall be processed with others of the same category and shall be disseminated in summary forms or statistical tables so as not to reveal the identity of any respondent. Confidentiality of primary data collected from respondents/administrative records systems is guaranteed by Section 26 of the Republic Act No. 10625 (Philippine Statistics Act of 2013). Penalties shall be enforced to acts of breach of confidential information pursuant to Section 27 of the said Act. |
Authorization to use this data is granted only to the client or data user and persons within its organization, if applicable. Under no circumstances shall the client reproduce, distribute, sell or lend the entire data or parts thereof to any other data user apart from himself or that of authorized employees in his organization. The PSA shall hold the data user fully responsible for safeguarding the data from any unauthorized access or use.
Before being granted access to the dataset, all users have to formally agree:
- To make no copies of any files or portions of files to which s/he is granted access except those authorized by the PSA.
- Not to use any technique in an attempt to learn the identity of any person, establishment, or sampling unit not identified in the dataset.
- To hold in strictest confidence the identification of any establishment or individual that may be inadvertently revealed in any documents or discussion, or analysis. Such inadvertent identification revealed in her/his analysis will be immediately be reported to the PSA.
Philippine Statistics Authority, Survey of Tourism Establishments in the Philippines 2014 (STEP 2014), Version 2.0 of the public use dataset (2014), provided by the PSA Data Archive. www.psa.gov.ph/psada
Disclaimer and copyrights
The data users/researchers acknowledge that the PSA bears no liabilities and responsibilities for any particular, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages, whatsoever resulting from loss of use, or of data in connection with the use or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
(c) 2014, Philippine Statistics Authority
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chief, Services Statistics Division | Philippine Statistics Authority | ssd.esss.staff@psa.gov.ph | |
| Knowledge Management and Communications Division | Philippine Statistics Authority | info@psa.gov.ph | www.psa.gov.ph |