LUCENA CITY, Quezon (PIA)- The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)-Quezon Provincial Office is currently holding the Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) in the province.
According to PSA-Quezon, the survey which started this April aims to generate essential statistics for economic planning and analysis. It is designed to collect and generate information on the levels, structure, performance and trends of economic activities of the formal sector of the country’s economy.
The 2021 ASPBI is the 49th in a series of annual surveys of establishment. In this round of ASPBI, the 2021 survey on Information and Communications Technology (SICT) will be the rider survey.
Provincial Statistics Officer (PSO) Airene Pucyutan said there are 397 sample establishments in Quezon province for the ASPBI in which 135 samples are also selected for SICT. Selected cities and municipalities of the province are involved in this survey.
Sample establishments are given multiple options on how they can respond to the survey they can either use the online questionnaire available at https:aspbi.psa.gov.ph; utilize the electronic copy of the questionnaire either in portable document format (.pdf) or (Excel) file format or; accomplish the printed copy of the questionnaire.
The major data items to be collected in the survey are employment , revenue, expense, e-commerce sales, capital expenditure, book value and capacity utilization.
“The major data items to be collected in this survey will serve as the basis from which the government and private sector formulate policies and economic development plans,” PSO Pucyutan said
Specifically, the survey result will be used in constructing national and regional income accounts of the Philippine economy, formulating and monitoring plans and policies of the attainment of national and regional economic goals, determining and comparing regional economic and structures and performances and analyzing the economic performance of micro-, small,-medium -sized enterprises, conducting market research and feasibility studies and updating the sampling frame for establishments -based surveys.
Relative to this, PSO Pucyutan is encouraging the support and cooperation of the sample establishments to give accurate and reliable information necessary to provide quantitative framework for preparation of plans and formulation of policies affecting the formal sector of the economy.
She also ensures that all data gathered will be treated confidentiality as per Republic Act No. 10625. (Ruel Orinday-PIA Quezon/with reports from PSA-Quezon)
