Philippines - Palay Production Survey 2016

Philippines Palay Production Survey 2016

Agricultural Survey The Palay Production Survey (PPS) 2016 covered the April 2016, July 2016, October 2016 and January 2017 Rounds of the 62nd year of the quarterly survey. PPS is one of the two modules of the Palay and Corn Production Survey (PCPS). The other module is the Corn Production Survey (CPS).

The generation of production statistics on palay and corn through the quarterly Rice and Corn Production Survey (RCPS), now known as the Palay and Corn Production Survey (PCPS) dates back to as early as 1954 when the former Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) was still a division (Agricultural Economics Division) of the then Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR).

The RCPS has for its predecessors, the Crops and Livestock Survey (CLS), 1954-1968; the Integrated Agricultural Survey (IAS), 1968-1985; and the Rice and Corn Survey(RCS), 1985-1993. Prior to 1986, the RCS employed a two-stage stratified sampling design with municipality as the domain. In 1986, the RCS adopted a three-stage sampling design with province as the domain. In 1989, the RCPS design evolved from a statistical research undertaken jointly by the former Philippine Statistical Association (PSA), now known as Philippine Statistical Association, Incorporated (PSAI) and former Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) under a grant from the USAID. It was conceived as an improvement to the RCS with a completely different sampling frame and design.

The new RCPS design was officially adopted in July 1994. The design used the results of the 1991 Census of Agriculture (CA) as basis for sampling frame and is still being implemented up to the present.

Despite the long history of this quarterly survey, it was continuously improved in design and contents. Thus, in 2007, an updating of the list of farming households in the PPS sample barangays was made. Consequently, a new set of sample households was drawn. Likewise, modification in the contents of the survey was made and implemented in December 2007 (January 2008 Round). Also, starting this round, the name of the survey was changed to Palay and Corn Production Survey (PCPS).

The improved Palay Production Survey, January 2008 Round, underwent further changes on sample status and terms and concepts used. Hence, revisions of the questionnaire were made and a supplementary manual of instruction was provided for the PPS April 2008 Round.

In October 2008, with funding support from the GMA Rice Program, the Enhanced Information System for Palay (EISP) was implemented. This project aimed to to develop and maintain a comprehensive quarterly report containing all the data elements generated from the PPS. The EISP presents information on palay production, area and yield by ecosystem and seed class. It also contains data on source and adequacy of irrigation water, usage of fertilizers, chemicals and seeds, disposition and utilization of production, and information on farmers' awareness and participation in the GMA Rice Program. All these information were disaggregated at the provincial level.

The continuous efforts in developing approaches and methodologies in estimating palay statistics had been done, particularly, the PPS questionnaire. As early as 2010, the proposed revision of the PPS questionnaire was included in the workplan of the TWG on Cereals Statistics. In the succeeding quarterly meetings of the TWG, the Group reviewed the current PPS questionnaire and made sure that the same items were included in the propsed questionnaire. The pre-test was conducted in June 2011. The issues encountered, recommendations/suggestions and agreements by the TWG on the pre-test of the questionnaire and those raised during the National Management Consultative Meeting (NMCM held last June 2011 were presented to the body for assessment. Refinements were made in the questionnaire based on the results of the assessment. The major features of the new sets of questionnaires are: shift from barangay level to farm level questionnaire i.e., from a maximum of five (5) households to one (1) household per questionnaire; change in questionnaire format; more detailed sample status categories; defined types of ecosystem; inclusion of items on labor inputs; and application of organic pesticides. These new sets of questionnaires was implemented starting April 2012 survey round of the PPS.

ID Number PHL-PSA-PalayPS-2016-v1

The scope of the Palay Production Survey includes:

- Production, area planted/harvested and yield by ecosystem and seed type

- Usage of seeds, fertilizer and pesticides

- Source of irrigation water and adequacy

- Monthly distribution of production and area harvested

- Farm household disposition of production

- Area with standing crop

- Planting intention for the quarter

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Agriculture, forestry, fisheries	Philippine Statistics Authority
Methodology of data collection, processing, dissemination and analysis	Philippine Statistics Authority

National

Provinces in Regions (National Capital Region not included)

Barangay

Farming households in palay producing barangays.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Crops Statistics Division	CSD	Philippine Statistics Authority	Documenter

2017-06-19 Version 1.0 - First metadata documentation of PPS 2016

DDI-PHL-PSA-PPS-2016-v1