Philippines - Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) 2000

FIES Volume I National Summary Final Report

2004-09

The 2000 Family Income and Expenditute Survey had the following objectives:

1. to gather data on family income and family living expenditures and related information affecting income and expenditure levels and patterns in the Philippines;

2. t o determine the sources of income and income distribution, levels of living and spending patterns, and the degree of inequality among families;

3. to provide benchmark information to update weights in the estimation of consumer price index (CPI); and

4. to provide inputs in the estimation of the country's poverty threshold and incidence.

Sample survey data [ssd]

The reporting unit was the household which implied that the statistics emanating from this survey referred to the characteristics of the population residing in private households. Institutional population is not within the scope of the survey.

For FIES, the concept of family was used. A family consists of the household head, spouse, unmarried children, ever-married children, son-in-law/daughter-in-law, parents of the head/spouse and other relatives who are members of the household.

In addition, two or more persons not related to each other by blood, marriage or adoption are also considered in this survey. However, only the income and expenditure of the member who is considered as the household head are included.