Friday, May 9, 2014
One of the first step in
community assessment is doing a house-to-house survey among the households of
Luop, Diplahan Zamboanga Sibugay. We arrived at our community on March 29,
2014, Saturday and on Monday we prepared our survey questionnaires. Immediately
on Tuesday we started to survey the households, we need to survey at least 75%
of the households in the barangay. Our questionnaire comprises queries that
would assess the living condition holistically of each household in the
barangay. It focuses on the different facets
of life such as Environmental, Economic, Social and most specially Health.
Our Barangay is composed of
162 households divided into 6 puroks. Each household is surveyed at an average time
of 30 minutes, since everybody in the group can speak and understand bisaya we managed to cover an average of
30 households per day. We just divided ourselves into 4 groups assigned to
different puroks. Initially we surveyed the farthest purok which is the purok 6
and 5 and followed by the the last 4 puroks. We have complexity in covering
100% of the households because at that time its harvest season in the barangay
and the majority of the populace spend their day time at the farm harvesting
and at the same time they are celebrating the anniversary of their barangay so
almost all the people are very busy and hard to find at their house.
At the end of the week on Friday April 4 we hit the 132nd
household and that is 80% of the entire households in the barangay. Since this
number of households already represents the entire Barangay, we use the
weekends collating the data for us to analyze the results of our 4-day survey.
We appreciate every little bit of the time that the community people has
offered us, despite of their busy schedule they still gave us a warm welcome in
their humble home. And this made as reached our goal.
