CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING (CPH)/MID-DECADE CENSUS OF POPULATION
 Agency Responsible
Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)
 Objective
to take an inventory of the population and housing units in the country and to
collect information about their characteristics.
 Frequency
Every 10 Years
 Disaggregation
Geographic Area: National, Regional, Provincial,
City/Municipality, Barangay and Urban/Rural
 Availability
From 1903
 Dissemination
Before the end of every census year for number of population from national
down to barangay levels; 18 months after the reference year for other indicator.
 Definition of Terms

Barangay
Smallest political unit in the country.
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Enumeration Area
a delineated geographic area usually consisting of about 350 to 500
households. It could be an entire barangay or part of a barangay.
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Building
any structure built, designed or intended for the enclosure, shelter or protection
of any person, animal or property. It consists of one or more rooms and/or other
spaces, covered by a roof, and usually enclosed within external walls or with
common dividing walls with adjacent buildings, which usually extend from the
foundation to the roof.

Housing Unit
a structurally separate and independent place of abode which, by the way it
has been constructed, converted, or arranged, is intended for habitation by one
or more households.
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Usual Place of Residence
the geographic place (street, barangay, city/municipality or province) where the
person usually resides. As a rule, a person’s usual place of residence is the
place where that person sleeps most of the time.
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Household
a social unit consisting of a person living alone or a group of persons who
sleep in the same housing unit and have a common arrangement in the
preparation and consumption of food.
The following were counted and enumerated as members of the household:
1. Persons whose usual place of residence is the place where the
household lives and who are present at the time of visit of the
enumerator, except those born after 12:01 a.m., of the reference period
of the census.
2. family members who are overseas and who are away at the time of the
census are considered members of the household.
3. persons whose usual place of residence is the place where the
household lives but are temporarily away at the time of the census for
any of the following reasons:
 on vacation, business/pleasure trip or training somewhere in the
Philippines and are expected to be back within six (6) months from
time of departure;
 on vacation, business/pleasure trip or study/training abroad and are
expected to be back within a year from time of departure;
 working or attending school in some other place but comes at least
once a week;
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
Household (con’t)
 confined in hospitals for a period of not more than six (6) months at
the time of enumeration except when they are confined as inmates
in mental hospitals, leprosaria or leper colonies, drug rehabilitation
centers, etc;
 detained in national/provincial/city/municipal jails or in military camps
for a period of not more than six (6) months at the time of
enumeration;
 training with the Armed Forces of the Philippines if training is not
more than six (6) months;
 on board coastal, inter-island or fishing vessels within Philippine
territories; or
 on board ocean-going vessels but are expected to come home.
4. boarders/lodgers of the household or employees of household-operated
businesses who do not usually go to their respective homes weekly.
5. citizens of foreign countries who have been resided or are 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 have resided or are expected to reside in the Philippines for at least
a year from their arrival.
7. persons temporarily staying with the household who have no usual
place of residence or who are not certain to be enumerated
elsewhere.

Household Population
the population enumerated in private households during a census or survey.

Institutional Population
the population enumerated during a census living in large institutions such as
national prisons and penal colonies, provincial and large city jail, tuberculosis
sanitaria, mental hospitals, leprosaria, military, mining and logging camps,
etc. The cut-off is more than 6-months.

Population
total number of individuals in a territory at a specified time. It covers both
nationals and aliens, native and foreign born persons, internees, refugees
and any other group physically present within the borders of a country at a
specified time. In assembling national demographic statistics for publication,
the basic aim has been to obtain data for the physically present (or de facto)
population rather than for the legally established resident (or de jure)
inhabitants.

Total Population
sum of the household population and the institutional population.

Intercensal Growth Rate
the rate of growth of population between two censal period. It is estimated
using the following formula:
1
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
  P1  t 
r      1 x 100
  P0 



where P1 = population as of the latest census
P0 = population of the previous census
t = number of years in between census years
r = intercensal growth rate
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