Philippines - Census of Population 2015

Philippines Census of Population 2015

Population and Housing Census POPCEN 2015 is the 14th census of population conducted in the country since the first census in 1903. It is the third mid-decade census undertaken in the country. The previous mid-decade censuses were conducted in 1995 and 2007.

ID Number PHL-PSA-POPCEN-2015-v1

The POPCEN 2015 gathers information on the following:

HOUSEHOLD: number of households; number of households reporting deaths in the last two years by number of deaths, sex, age at death, and death registration; households in occupied housing units by type of construction materials of the roof and outer walls; number of households using a particular type of fuel for lighting; number of households by source of water supply for drinking and cooking; and number of households by tenure status of the housing unit/lot

HOUSEHOLD POPULATION: relationship to the household head, sex, age, birth registration, marital status, religious affiliation, school attendance, literacy, highest grade/year completed, technical/vocational course obtained, overseas worker, and usual activity/occupation

HOUSING UNIT: number of housing units by type of building, type of construction materials of the roof and outer walls, and tenure status of the housing unit/lot

INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION: residence status, sex, age, birth registration, marital status, religious affiliation, and highest grade/year completed

INSTITUTIONAL LIVING QUARTER: type of ILQ such as dormitory/lodging house, hospital, military camp, prison/jail, orphange, and seminary/convent

BARANGAY: selected characteristics and facilities present in the barangay or nearest to the barangay (i.e. within two kilometers or more than 2 kilometers from the barangay hall); number, kind and employment size of establishments in the barangay; and presence of informal settlers, relocation areas, and in-movers in the barangay due to natural and man-made disasters in the last five years.

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Population and migration	Philippine Statistics Authority

The population count is available at the barangay, city/municipal, provincial, regional, and national levels. Demographic, social, and economic characteristics are tabulated at the city/municipal, provincial, regional, and national levels.

The POPCEN 2015 covered all persons who were alive as of 12:01 a.m. August 1, 2015, and who were members of the household and institution as follows:

Persons Enumerated as Members of the Household

1. Those who were present at the time of visit and whose usual place of residence was the housing unit where the household lived;

2. Family members who were overseas workers and who were away at the time of the census and were expected to be back within five years from the date of last departure.

These included household members who may or may not have had a specific work contract or had been presently at home on vacation but had an existing overseas employment to return to. Undocumented overseas workers were still considered as members of the household for as long as they had been away for not more than five years. Immigrants, however, were excluded from the census.

3. Those whose usual place of residence was the place where the household lived but were temporarily away at the time of the census for any of the following reasons:

a. on vacation, business/pleasure trip, or training somewhere in the Philippines and was expected to be back within six months from the date of departure. An example was a person on training with the Armed Forces of the Philippines for not more than six months;

b. on vacation, business/pleasure trip, on study/training abroad and was expected to be back within a year from the date of departure;

c. working or attending school outside their usual place of residence but usually came home at least once a week;

d. confined in hospitals for a period of not more than six months as of the time of enumeration, except when they were confined as patients in mental hospitals, leprosaria/leper colonies or drug rehabilitation centers, regardless of the duration of their confinement;

e. detained in national/provincial/city/municipal jails or in military camps for a period of not more than six months as of the time of enumeration, except when their sentence or detentionwas expected to exceed six months;

f. on board coastal, interisland, or fishing vessels within Philippine territories; and

g. on board oceangoing vessels but expected to be back within five years from the date of departure.

4. Boarders/lodgers of the household or employees of household-operated businesses who did not return/go home to their respective households weekly;

5. Citizens of foreign countries who resided or were expected to reside in the Philippines for at least a year from their arrival, except members of diplomatic missions and non-Filipino members of international organizations;

6. Filipino balikbayans with usual place of residence in a foreign country but resided or were expected to reside in the Philippines for at least a year from their arrival; and

7. Persons temporarily staying with the household who had no usual place of residence or who were not certain to be enumerated elsewhere.

Persons Enumerated as Members of the Institutional Population

1. Permanent lodgers in boarding houses;

2. Dormitory residents who did not usually go home to their respective households at least once a week;

3. Hotel residents who stayed in the hotel for more than six months at the time of the census;

4. Boarders in residential houses, provided that their number was 10 or more. However, if the number of boarders in a house was less than 10, they were considered as members of regular households, not of institutions;

5. Patients in hospitals who were confined for more than six months;

6. Patients confined in mental hospitals, leprosaria or leper colonies, and drug rehabilitation centers, regardless of the length of their confinement;

7. Wards in orphanages, homes for the aged, and other welfare institutions;

8. Prisoners of corrective and penal institutions;

9. Seminarians, nuns in convents, monks, and postulants;

10. Soldiers residing in military camps; and

11. Workers in mining and similar camps.

All Filipinos in Philippine embassies, missions, and consulates abroad were also included in the enumeration.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Population and Housing Census Division	PHCD	Phiilippine Statistics Authority	Documenter

2017-06-19 Version 1.0

This is the first version of documentation for the 2015 Census of Population (POPCEN 2015) using IHSN Toolkit.

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