The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) will be spending P63.6 million to conduct the Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) and the Health System Responsiveness survey.
PSA said the FLEMMS will cost P61.8 million, while the Health System Responsiveness survey will cost P1.8 million.
The FLEMMS will cover 45,000 sample households or 144,000 sample individuals, while the Health System Responsiveness survey will cover a total of 1,700 individuals from 10 selected areas in the country.
PSA said the FLEMMS would serve as basis in the formulation of policies and programs on the improvement of literacy and education status of the population.
The survey will also estimate the proportion of the population 10 years old and over who are basically literate, i.e., those who can read, write and understand a simple message in any language or dialect.
It also intends to estimate the proportion of the population 10 to 64 years old who are functionally literate, i.e., those who can read, write, compute and comprehend, and to determine their socioeconomic characteristics.
PSA said the FLEMMS will also determine the educational skill qualifications of the population in terms of formal schooling and the mass media exposure of the population.
Meanwhile, the Health System Responsiveness survey aims to provide a “comprehensive diagnosis” of the country’s health system responsiveness, as well as its strengths and weaknesses.
It aims to describe the nonmedical perception and experience associated with seeking health care and determine health responsiveness across different sections of society, such as sociodemographic variables, health condition and other pertinent variables. Cai U. Ordinario
The survey seeks to identify the strong points of the sector and areas for improvement, and pinpoint factors that enabled/disabled good performance on particular domains.