Ateneo Social Science Research Center
Naga City Public Opinion Polls
July 2008
March 2008
Socio-Economic Profiles
♣City of Naga (2007)
♣Municipality of Cabusao (2007)
♣Municipality of Calabanga (2008)
♣Municipality of Sagñay (2008)
♣Municipality of Buhi (2008)
♣Municipality of Libon (2007)
♣Barangay Nato (2009)
♣Barangay Atulayan (2009)
RESEARCH ARTICLES
People-Initiated Relocation Project: The Del Rosario Resettlement Experience In Naga City
by Cristina P. Lim, Ph.D. and Lydia J. Asisten, M.A.Development and the Urban Poor: Bridging the Gap between Research and Users
by Sonia S. ImperialGlobalization and its Implications to Women Empowerment in Trade Unions: Cases from the Philippine Export Banana Industry
by Jon Michael R. VillaseñorMusings of a Male on Male Aggression in a University Campus
by Jon Michael R. VillaseñorDeterminants of Two Major Early-childhood Diseases and their Treatment in the Philippines: Findings from the 1993 National Demographic Survey of the Philippines
by Michael A. Costello, Lauro C. Lleno and Eric R. JensenList of Completed Research Projects by Category (1970-2009)
Children and Youth
Women and Gender Issues
Fertility, Family Planning and Population
Education
Health
Environment
Agriculture
Cooperatives
Housing and Urban Development
Business
Politics and Governance
Program Planning and Evaluation
Bicol Data Set
Publications - Books and Studies by the ASSRC
Aside from the publication of the magazine, the ASSRC has also published several books on various topics like violence against women, urban development and corruption in the Philippines.
To get a copy of these books, please contact the ASSRC.
HINUHÀ Magazine
Hinuhà is an official publication of the Ateneo Student Researchers Pool (ASRP). It is one of the research outputs of the ASRP and a major component of the scholars' training program.
Hinuhà Vol. 8: ASRP turns 10!
This year may be ordinary for some but definitely not for us, the Ateneo Student Researchers Pool (ASRP), because this is the year we celebrate our 10th year anniversary!
It has been a decade ago since our organization was established. This started when the Ateneo Social Science Research Center (ASSRC) got involved in the assessment of the Naga City’s implementation of the Local Governance Code or popularly known as GOLD project. Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Associates in Rural Development (ARD), the project used the Social Weather Station’s (SWS) methodology, especially the right area coverage, in coming up with a quantitative measure of its assessment. For the three years of project implementation, the SWS served as the ASSRC’s mentor in the use of the poll’s methodology. more
Hinuhà Vol. 7: Urban Living at the Height of Change
Whenever we hear the word city, we almost always attach to it the word progress or development – something better than what was. With the presence of business investments, employment opportunities, state-of-the-art facilities, adept universities, wide array of consumer products and services, cities are indeed the epitome of progress.
In more than a decade, Naga has been the leading growth area in the Bicol Region. The infrastructures and services available in the city provide the demands of the growing population of 137, 810 in 2000 to 160, 516 in 2007. Let us add to that the surge of students, who are drawn to Naga because of their desire to acquire excellent education in one of its universities and employees, who wish to seek better and wider employment opportunities. more
Hinuhà Vol. 6: Path of Endless Hope
Adversity has many faces, and it is up to us to find ways to overcome it. The difficulties we face in our lives today teach us different lessons in life. These difficulties challenge us to do something to stop them from defeating us. If we do something about these problems, we will surely get through them.
In this year’s issue of Hinuhà, we would like to share the stories told to us by the people of Barangay Sta. Cruz and Barangay Gabas of Buhi, Camarines Sur. These rural folks tell their stories about making through natural disasters like super typhoon Reming that brought a large devastation to their livelihood. These stories show how individuals have battled with the challenges thrown their way, each with a different story to tell – from the fisherman trying to break away from the nets of poverty, woman vying for recognition, farmers dealing with production problems to the Itbogs of the upland facing poverty. more
Hinuhà Vol. 4: Path of Endless Hope
The Pulse Asia's Ulat ng Bayan survey conducted in June 24-July 8, 2006 indicated that there is a low level of public hopefulness among Filipinos.
In this issue, Hinuhà attempts to document and relate people's struggles for survival, stories of ingenuity, and their reasons to hope in the midst of their everyday hardships. These are the people who strive to rise from the weight of hopelessness, confront the faceless despair of loss of loved ones, abandonment, imprisonment, homelessness and unemployment, and continue to appreciate the little triumphs of passing daily challenges.
Hinuhà Vol. 3: Faces of the Informal Sector
The Ateneo Student Researchers Pool (ASRP) presents a firsthand account of the people in the informal labor sector. Unlike the unusual statistical information on the informal sector, the articles are renderings of the lives of the tinderos and tinderas (male and female vendors) and other service providers in the streets or neighborhoods of Naga and nearby municipalities as they engage in informal work or enterprise.
The ASRP members delved into the lives of fish and vegetable hawkers, ukay-ukay vendors, and sapateros in the Naga City Supermarket, isaw vendors outside campuses, kumadronas in Magarao and Canaman, garbage-pickers in Balatas, kutseros in Abella and Camaligan, labanderas in Queborac and Sta. Cruz, and dispatchers in the Central Business District Transport Terminal.
Hinuhà Vol. 2
When Sara was 12 years old, she discovered that her father has a mistress. What made her agrier was that the mistress was her mother's bestfriend. Efren told Sara not to tell her mother about his infidelity. When Lillia found out about her husband's infidelity through her friends, she went home unannounced. Furious over the discovery of his infidelity, Efren has since threatened to kill Lillia. Since then he would always hurt Lillia and his children to show he meant his threat. After one of these beatings they left their father Efren and never went home.
Hinuhà Vol. 1: More Bicolano Families Cannot Afford Proper Food
In 2000, the annual per capita poverty threshold in the Bicol region was P12,825 or P1,068.75 per month. For an average Bicolano family of five, this means a monthly income of at least P5,343.75 to meet basic food and non-food requirements. Below this minimum income, a family is considered "poor".
Between 1997 and 2000, poverty incidence and the proportion of families with income below the poverty threshold in the region swelled from 50.1 percent to 55.4 percent. Compared to all regions in the country, Bicol ranks second to the highest in terms of poverty incidence with ARMM at the top rank with 60.2 percent.
Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)
Aside from the publication of the magazine, the ASRP also conducts regular Participatory Appraisal (PRA) in different barangays of Camarines Sur.
PRA is a learning process being used to understand rural conditions, using various participatory tools, which involves the participation of local inhabitants during the process.
Like Hinuhà, the results of the PRA are published for the benefit of the various development stakeholders in the subject localities.
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