Quarterly Survey of Philippine Business and Industry 2015-2016
Philippines, 2015 - 2017
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Quarterly Survey of Philippine Business and Industry 2015-2016
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Philippines | PHL |
Enterprise Survey [en/oth]
The QSPBI was formerly known as the Quarterly Survey of Establishments (QSE). Over the years, the design of the survey has undergone several revisions and modifications.
In the 1970s, the survey was called the Integrated Quarterly Survey of Establishments, or IQSE, with the sample taken as sub-sample from the Annual Survey of Establishments (ASE).
The QSE that succeeded the IQSE reduced the coverage to exclude the agriculture, forestry, fishing and logging sectors. From being a sub-sample of the ASE, samples for the QSE were directly selected from the List of Establishments (LE). Stratification was by region and by 3 or 4-digit levels of Philippine Standard Industrial Classification (PSIC). Samples were selected using specified sampling rates for each stratum in each region and 3 or 4-digit PSIC.
In 2000, the establishment surveys conducted by NSO were renamed, beginning with the 2000 Census of Philippine Business and Industry (CPBI). This move was made necessary for the general public's better understanding of what the surveys covered. Thus, The QSE was renamed to Quarterly Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (QSPBI).
The change, however, was not limited to the name. The plan to generate quarterly indices instead of just targeting for estimates of levels of transactions has led to the decision to revise the survey design. The sample selection procedure was changed to include only industry leaders of selected key industries. A set of criteria was formulated to provide basis in the selection of key industries and industry leaders as well.
It was in 2004 when the QSPBI started using only one questionnaire, the QSPBI Form 1, an enhanced version of the Common Report used for all sectors covered by the survey. This form, however, had undergone minor revisions in the succeeding years, the latest of which was in 2008 where instructions on the QSPBI web-based questionnaire were added.
The Quarterly Survey of Philippine Business and Industry is a nationwide quarterly survey regularly conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority. It aims to provide quarterly data on revenue/sales, employment and compensation for each of the identified key industries (3/5-digit level) as classified under the 2009 Philippine Standard Industrial Classification (PSIC).
Specifically, the survey data will be used by the Sectoral Statistics Office (created under RA 10625 - Philippine Statistical Act of 2013) in the generation of the Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) and in construction of the Quarterly Economic Indicators (QEI).
Sample survey data [ssd]
Establishment
Version
v02 : Final dataset for official estimates
2017-03-30
Scope
The 2015-2016 QSPBI gathers the following information:
- Employment
- Compensation
- Production
- Gross Revenue/Sales
- Inventory
- Capacity Utilization
| Topic | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Business statistics | Philippine Statistics Authority |
| Business and agricultural surveys | Philippine Statistics Authority |
| Labour cost | Philippine Statistics Authority |
Coverage
National and Regional
All establishments with total employment of 20 and over in the formal sector of the economy except agriculture, forestry and fishing.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Philippine Statistics Authority | National Economic and Development Authority |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Government of the Philippines | Full funding |
Sampling
The QSPBI frame consists of establishments, with ATE of 20 and over, as extracted from the latest available List of Establishments (LE) maintained by the Service and Industry Census Division (SICD) under Censuses and Technical Coordination Office of the PSA.
The updating of the LE involves (1) capturing and listing of characteristics of "new" establishments; (2) updating of the status and characteristics of "old" establishments; (3) de-listing "closed" establishments that should no longer form part of the LE and (4) identifying out-of-scope units on the database.
The 2015 ULE involved the complete enumeration of selected barangays where "no matched" establishments (establishments listed in other sources but not in the LE) from prioritized secondary sources are located. Also covered are barangays with new shopping malls, barangays having the highest number of establishments from the typhoon Yolanda affected cities/municipalities, barangays where there exist an establishment having an employment of 100 and over, and barangays with highest count of establishments for some provinces. Other "no matched" establishments, including those located in distant barangays, were covered using mail inquiry.
Other sources of updates are the survey feedbacks from the 2015 Quarterly Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (QSPBI) and 2015 Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI); list of branches and subsidiaries from the 2014 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry and 2014 Survey of Tourism Establishments in the Philippines (STEP).
For 1st quarter 2015 QSPBI, 95.3% response rate.
For 2nd quarter 2015 QSPBI, 91.4% response rate.
For 3rd quarter 2015, 91.4% response rate.
For 4th quarter 2015, 92.6% response rate.
For 1st quarter 2016 QSPBI, 95.7% response rate.
For 2nd quarter 2016 QSPBI, 95.4% response rate.
For 3rd quarter 2016, 94.4% response rate.
For 4th quarter 2016, 90.8% response rate.
The current sample selection procedure of the QSPBI is not probability sampling, hence weights are not applicable.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-01 | 2015-06-30 | 1st quarter 2015 |
| 2015-07-01 | 2015-09-30 | 2nd quarter 2015 |
| 2015-10-01 | 2015-12-30 | 3rd quarter 2015 |
| 2016-01-01 | 2016-03-31 | 4th quarter 2015 |
| 2016-04-01 | 2016-06-30 | 1st quarter 2016 |
| 2016-07-01 | 2016-09-30 | 2nd quarter 2016 |
| 2016-10-01 | 2016-12-30 | 3rd quarter 2016 |
| 2017-01-01 | 2017-03-31 | 4th quarter 2016 |
All information collected in the QSPBI pertains to the operation of the establishments within each of the 4 quarters of the year covering the following months:
First Quarter - January, February, March
Second Quarter - April, May, June
Third Quarter - July, August, September
Fourth Quarter - October, November, December
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| PSA-Provincial Statitics Offices | |
| Services Statistics Division | PSA |
| Industry Statistics Division | PSA |
| Economic Sector Statistics Service | PSA |
The Regional Directors (RDs) are responsible for the monitoring and supervision of the QSPBI activities in the provinces within their jurisdiction. The Provincial Statistics Officers (PSOs), on the other hand, are responsible for the supervision of the QSPBI activities in their respective provinces during the distribution, collection, manual processing (field-editing) and machine processing phases.
The PSOs and the RDs are provided the access on the online monitoring and control system (MTS) in their respective areas to monitor the status of distribution and the collection of the accomplished QSPBI questionnaires.
To facilitate the reporting and tracking of the status of the sample establishments, the online MTS was developed for use by the field offices and by the Services Statistics Division (SSD).
Distribution of Questionnaires:
Pre-addressed questionnaires were sent by the Services Statistics Division (SSD) to the Provincial Statistics Offices (PSOs) two weeks before the reference quarter's operations. The Provincial Office staff personally delivered these questionnaires to the sample establishments. Upon delivery, the contact person in the establishment should have been informed of the date when the questionnaire would be collected. The establishments were given 10 days within which to accomplish the QSPBI Form 1- questionnaire.
Sample respondents of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI), which were also QSPBI sample respondents, were no longer given QSPBI questionnaires. Data for such establishments will be based on their monthly reports from the MISSI.
To facilitate the reporting and tracking of the status of the sample establishments, the online control list or the Monitoring and Tracking System (MTS) was developed.
Collection of Questionnaires:
All accomplished questionnaires were collected starting the 10th day after the reference quarter. To ensure that the establishment would submit its duly accomplished questionnaire on time, the Provincial staff was tasked to make an appointment with the respondent for the collection of the questionnaire. However, before collection, a telephone call to the respondent was to be made or a reminder notice sent to the establishment to guarantee that the questionnaire would be ready for collection.
Field editing was done before leaving the establishment to avoid revisits.
Web-Based Questionnaire:
With the concern for timeliness and high response rates for the 45-days and 90-days deadline, alternative modes of collecting the QSPBI reports are being continually pursued.
In line with this, a web-based QSPBI questionnaire was designed and made available to the respondents thru a special PSA web address since the 3rd quarter 2006. Establishments are now given options on how they will submit their reports: by accomplishing the physical questionnaire (QSPBI Form 1) given to them by the PSA Provincial staff or by logging-in to the special PSA web address and accomplish the QSPBI Web-Based questionnaire. Data gathered from the Web-based questionnaire were uploaded to the QSPBI system for further verification and consistency checking by the subject matter specialists. About two to five percent of the total QSPBi sample are responding via Web-based questionnaire.
The CSPro Data Entry for Field Offices:
The CSPro Data Entry for Field Offices was introduced in the 1st quarter of 2008 to address the timeliness of QSPBI reports submissions. This program was developed as an alternative option for the PSA Provincial Offices (POs) to be able to submit QSPBI reports to the Central Office (CO) earlier. The CSPro Data Entry enables the POs to encode their collected QSPBI reports and transmit the datafiles to CO via e-mail. The introduction of the CSPro Data Entry to the POs minimizes the waiting time consumed in the shipment of QSPBI reports from the provinces. These datafiles were uploaded to the QSPBI system in the CO and ready for validation. All provinces except NCR are already using the program since it was introduced.
Dissemination:
QSPBI results are submitted to the Production Accounts Division under Macroeconomic Accounts Service every 45 days and 90 days after the reference quarter in the form of Posting Sheets by sector/key industry at establishment level and special submission every 10 days of 4th quarter reference.
Data processing
To determine the completeness, consistency and reasonableness of entries in the accomplished questionnaires, the field office staff field edited and verified the accomplished reports based on specified editing and consistency checks instructions.
Doubtful entries were resolved immediately at the Provincial Office through phone calls or personal visits by defining or clarifying problems regarding the establishments' reports.
Data appraisal
The current sample selection procedure of the QSPBI is not probability sampling, hence no sampling error estimates are computed.
Data Evaluation:
Evaluation of the reports from establishments is done by comparing the growth rates of the variables in the current quarter report with the previous quarter report. That is, the ratio of the two succeeding (consecutive) reports for each of the data items should be within a specified range. These set ranges are based on the observed movements or trends from the historical reports of the establishments within the same industry groups. Reports that deviate from these ranges need to be verified with the establishment/respondent for correction or explanation.
Field Awards:
The Field Awards is an incentive system for the Philippine Statistics Authority regional and provincial offices to motivate the field offices to perform quality outputs in mandated activities and to conduct programs to support and promote its mission and vision. It also aims to increase PSA visibility not only among sub-national and local government agencies but also with the private sectors.
The Field Awards centers on efficiency, innovativeness, creativity and productivity of field offices. The Field Awards is dynamic and changes in criteria, weights and documentation requirements depend on the priorities of the office.
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Statistician | PSA | 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, Quarterly Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (QSPBI 2015-2016), Version 2.0 of the public use dataset (March 2016), provided by the PSA Data Archive. www.psa.gov.ph/psada
Disclaimer and copyrights
A disclaimer limits the liability that the Statistics Office has regarding the use of the data. A standard legal statement should be used for all datasets from a same agency. The PSA guidelines prescribes:
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) 2016, Philippine Statistics Authority
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chief, Services Statistics Division | PSA | ssd.esss.staff@psa.gov.ph | |
| Knowledege Management amd Communication Division | PSA | info@psa.gov.ph | psa.gov.ph |