DOI: 10.3886/icpsr06890.v2
title: Bicol Multipurpose Survey (BMS), 1994: [Philippines]
title: Version 2

description: The objectives of the 1994 Bicol Multipurpose Survey, which were similar to those of the BICOL MULTIPURPOSE SURVEY (BMS), 1978: [PHILIPPINES] (ICPSR 6878) and the 1983 BMS (ICPSR 6889), were to gather information on income, earnings, mobility, fertility, farm production, and health from the residents of the Bicol Region in the Philippines. Households in the province of Camarines Sur were surveyed, with a primary focus on household characteristics, adult and child health, value and income of assets or properties, expenditures on education and liabilities, income such as cash and in-kind transfers, and income from household members not residing in the household, along with agricultural production of rice and other crops. Information about the barangay (a barangay is a political subdivision equivalent to a village in rural areas and to a neighborhood in urban areas) in which the household was located includes environmental sanitation, availability of community services, and cost for community services or family planning. Data regarding successor households (households where the children had taken over the management and supervision of family assets) were examined, along with intergenerational income mobility data (the impact of parental income and investments on children).
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Created variable labels and/or value labels..
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: Basic Survey Information 
 DS2: General Characteristics 
 DS3: Out-Migration of Household Members 
 DS4: Use of Public Facilities 
 DS5: Housing 
 DS6: Rice, Corn, Cooking Oil, and Egg Consumption 
 DS7: Other Food and Non-Food Consumption 
 DS8: Schooling of Household and Family Members 
 DS9: Schooling Expenditures of Household 
 DS10: Health Data for Adult Household Members 
 DS11: Health Data for Children 
 DS12: Marriage History of Household Members 
 DS13: Decision-Making in the Household 
 DS14: Pregnancy and Delivery History 
 DS15: Acquisition of Selected Consumer Durables 
 DS16: Value and Income of Assets/Properties 
 DS17: Loans Obtained Last Year 
 DS18: Outstanding Liabilities/Mortgaged Properties Last Year 
 DS19: Wage Labor Employment Last Year 
 DS20: Wage Income and Wage Rates 
 DS21: Crop Land Mortgaged, Pawned, Exchanged, or Given in Last 10 Years 
 DS22: Crop Land Data 
 DS23: Rice Crop Production and Disposal 
 DS24: Direct Rice Production Costs for Non-Labor Inputs 
 DS25: Rice Crop Production Hired, and Family and Exchange Labor 
 DS26: Rice Crop Production Tractor/Thresher Use 
 DS27: Rice Crop Production Animal Use 
 DS28: Production and Disposal of Other Crops 
 DS29: Livestock/Poultry/Fishing 
 DS30: Business/Profession 
 DS31: Remittances History 
 DS32: Cash and In-Kind Transfers, Household Capital and Asset Transfers Since 1983 
 DS33: Income Last Year of Other Household Members not in Household But Residing in Barangay 
 DS34: Barangay Survey: General Characteristics 
 DS35: Barangay Survey: Environmental Sanitation 
 DS36: Barangay Survey: Availability of Community Services 
 DS37: Barangay Survey: Educational Institutions 
 DS38: Barangay Survey: Social Service and Extension Workers 
 DS39: Barangay Survey: Prices for Community Services/Family Planning 
 DS40: Barangay Survey: Community Prices of Items for Agricultural Production 
 DS41: Barangay Survey: Prices of Food and Non-Food Items 
 DS42: Study Description, Appendices, and Data Collection Instruments (PDF) 
 DS43: Codebook for All Parts (PDF) 
 DS44: SAS Program File for Use With Parts 22 Through 27
description: (1) Data collected in 1978 (ICPSR 6878), 1983 (ICPSR 6889), and 1994 can be used individually or merged together (with the exception of the Medical Practitioner and Extension Worker surveys conducted in 1978) on a unique household identifier found in Part 15 of ICPSR 6878. Data for 1978, 1983, and 1994 can be merged with data for 1981 (ICPSR 6888) at the community level only. (2) Users should note that barangay codes have been scrambled and documentation has been modified to preserve respondent confidentiality. (3) The data collection instruments and codebook are provided as Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet. (4) The principal investigator has provided Part 44 to assist users with additional data cleaning of Parts 22 through 27.
description: All farm and nonfarm households residing in 17 IDAs (Integrated Development Areas) and 3 cities of the Bicol Region, Philippines.
description: Multistage, stratified random sample of approximately 1,900 households containing more than 17,000 individuals residing in both semi-urban and rural areas. A household is defined as a dwelling where one or more families prepare food in common.