Philippines

With funding and technical support from the Asian Development Bank, the Philippines Statistics Authority piloted the EDGE stand-alone survey in 2015. The principal couple, as well as a third randomly selected adult household member, were interviewed separately and to the extent possible, simultaneously, about the principal dwelling, agricultural land, livestock, large and small agricultural equipment, non-agricultural enterprises, real estate, consumer durables, financial assets, liabilities, and valuables owned by any member of the household.

A two-stage stratified sampling design representative of Cavite province was adopted in the Philippines. Barangays formed the primary sampling units (PSUs) and households within each selected PSU formed the second stage sampling units (SSUs). Both PSUs and SSUs were selected following circular systematic sampling with a random start. In order to obtain a sufficient number of households with three adult household members, in accordance with the EDGE survey protocols for testing respondent selection, two second stage strata were formed:

• SSS-1comprising all households with 3 or more adults (18+), and
• SSS-2 comprising all remaining households

Achieving the second stage stratification required a recent or updated listing of households with information on the number of adults per household. A fresh listing was undertaken two months prior to the actual field work to gather information on the number of adults in each household in each of the selected PSUs by interviewers visiting each household in the PSUs. With the available data on the number of adults in selected PSUs, households in each selected PSU were divided into SSS-1 and SSS-2 to select the desired number of sample households from each stratum. The total sample size was 1,536 households.