Construction Statistics from Approved Building Permits 2008
Philippines, 2008 - 2009
Identification
PHL_2008_BP_v01_M
Construction Statistics from Approved Building Permits 2008
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Philippines | PHL |
Administrative Records, Construction Statistics (ad/oth]
The collection of approved building permit forms started in 1977 when the National Census and Statistics Office (NCSO) and the Department of Local Government and Community Development entered into an informal agreement in 1976 to implement the provisions of the National Building Code and monitor the building permit forms. On January 6 1978, a Memorandum of Agreement between NCSO and the former Department of Public Works, Transportation and Communication defined the agencies' responsibilities in the collection of private construction statistics. From then on, the collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of construction statistics became the responsibility of the National Statistics Office.
Construction statistics from approved building permit aims to provide monthly data on building construction at the municipality level nationwide. Some of the statistics derived from approved building permits are number of units or buildings, floor area, value of construction and type of building. These statistics are the bases of estimates of the level of construction activity useful in the computation of national income accounts and serves as indicators on the level of investment in the country. As such, the data are invaluable in analyzing present economic conditions and past developments, forecasting future trends and making policy decisions.
Approved building permit relates to data on new constructions and additions, renovations and repairs of existing structures. The data are taken from the original application forms of approved building permits collected by National Statistics Office (NSO) personnel from the Local Building Officials (LBOs) nationwide. However, statistics from approved building permits are characterized by some limitations namely: constructions refer to those proposed to be constructed during the reference period and not to construction work completed during the reference period; and the completeness of the number of building permits collected relies on the applications filed and approved by the LBOs, hence, building constructions without approved building permits are not included in the statistics.
The final data set provides updates to the 2008 Quarterly Special Releases on construction statistics posted in NSO website. The sources of updates are additional approved building permits collected after cut-off dates because of data collection constraints. These additional documents were not yet available for inclusion in the quarterly tabulation of data on designated target dates.
Administrative records data [adm]
Building or building construction is the unit of analysis.
Building is defined as any independent free-standing structure comprising of one or more rooms or other spaces, covered by a roof and enclosed with external walls which extend from the foundation to the roof.
Construction refers to all on-site work done from site preparation, excavation, foundation, assembly of all the components and installation of utilities and equipment of buildings or structures.
Version
v01_M: edited data
2010-03-08
Scope
Construction of residential and non-residential structures. It includes new constructions and additions, renovations and repairs of existing structures, and other constructions requiring building permit.
| Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Construction | CESSDA | http://www.censsus.gov.ph |
Coverage
National coverage Regions Provinces Cities and Municipalities
City and/or Municipality
All building permits issued by local government units.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Statistics Office | National Economic Development Authority |
| Name |
|---|
| National Statistics Office |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Local Building Officials | Local Government Units | Building permit documents registration |
Sampling
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
Survey instrument
Construction statistics are compiled by the National Statistics Office from the copies of original application forms of approved building permits collected every month by authorized NSO field personnel from the Local Building Officials (LBOs) nationwide.
A building permit is a written authorization granted by the LBO to an applicant allowing him to proceed with the construction of a specific project after plans, specifications and other pertinent documents have been found to be in conformity with the National Building Code. It consists of ten sections, referred to as boxes, which are accomplished by the applicant, his/her designated architect or civil engineer and the Local Government Units in-charge with the processing of the form. These are the following:
Box 1 - describes the name, address, form of ownership, economic activity, location of construction, scope of work, and the use or type of occupancy;
Box 2 - checklist of supporting documents to the building permit;
Box 3 - contains the LBO's action on the application;
Box 3A - gives the breakdown of the cost, number of storey, total floor area, proposed date of construction, expected date of completion and materials of construction;
Box 4 - contains the amount of assessed fees for the construction and corresponding receipt number;
Box 5 - contains the flow in the processing of the building permit, corresponding dates and name of processor;
Box 6 - contains the signature of architect/civil engineer in charge of the design/plan;
Box 7 - contains the signature of the architect/civil engineer in charge of the construction;
Box 8 - contains the signature of the applicant; and
Box 9 - contains the name; address; TCT number; and signature of the lot owner.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2008-02-01 | 2008-02-07 | first week after January (reference month) |
| 2008-03-03 | 2008-03-07 | first week after February (reference month) |
| 2008-04-01 | 2008-04-07 | first week after March (reference month) |
| 2008-05-01 | 2008-05-07 | first week after April (reference month) |
| 2008-06-02 | 2008-06-06 | first week after May (reference month) |
| 2008-07-01 | 2008-07-07 | first week after June (reference month) |
| 2008-08-01 | 2008-08-07 | first week after July (reference month) |
| 2008-09-01 | 2008-09-05 | first week after August (reference month) |
| 2008-10-01 | 2008-10-07 | first week after September (reference month) |
| 2008-11-03 | 2008-11-07 | first week after October (reference month) |
| 2008-12-01 | 2008-12-05 | first week after November (reference month) |
| 2009-01-02 | 2009-01-08 | first week after December (reference month) |
| Start date | End date |
|---|---|
| 2008-01-01 | 2008-12-31 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Statistics Office | National Economic Development Authority |
Central Office Supervision
The Industry Statistics Division of the National Statistics Office (NSO) oversees the complete collection of all approved building permits from all cities and municipalities of the country.
Field Office Supervision
The Provincial Statistics Officers of NSO monitors the collection of approved building permits of their area of jurisdiction and ensures that collected documents are properly edited and coded following the instructions stated in the field operations manual, machine processed and submitted to Central Office according timetable.
The number of building permit forms accomplished by the applicant comes in five (5) copies. The “NSO copy” of the approved building permit is made available within the first five (5) working days after each reference month. Collections of these documents from the Local Building Official (LBO) in city/municipality are undertaken by NSO field personnel within this period.
The NSO field personnel while still at the office of the LBO checks properly the copies of building permits as to its completeness by verifying the beginning and ending numbers indicated in the permit numbers. All the missing permit numbers are indicated, with corresponding reasons, in the transmittal list. In cases where there is no construction in a given month in a municipality, the NSO field personnel secures a certification that there was no construction during the period from the LBO.
Data processing
Processing or editing of building permit documents is done to check for the validity, consistency and reasonableness of data. It involves manual and machine data processing.
Manual processing includes editing and coding the entries in the building permit document following the instructions provided in the Processing Instructions Manual. Manual processing of documents is done in two levels namely: editing and coding done by Provincial Office staff; and the review of edited documents by Central Office staff.
During machine data processing, items which did not meet the editing specifications are flagged in an error listing. The error listing displays the inconsistencies, errors and omissions found in the building permit as identified by the folio, sheet and permit number. These are verified against the identified building permit and corresponding corrections and/or updates are made in the data files. This process is repeated until there are no more inconsistent or erroneous entries are found in the error listing. The cleaned data files are then submitted to NSO Central Office for further processing and consolidation of data files for the generation of preliminary tables.
Detailed instructions on data processing can be found in the "Processing Instructions Manual Section 2" document provided as an external resource.
Data appraisal
Not applicable.
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Director, Industry and Trade Statistics Department | National Statistics Office | www.census.gov.ph | info@census.gov.ph |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | The generation of Construction Statistics from Approved Building Permits conforms to the provisions of confidentiality stated under Section 4 of Commonwealth Act No. 591, which says that the "Data furnished to the Bureau of Census and Statistics (BCS) now known as the National Statistics Office, by an individual, corporation, partnership, institution or business enterprise shall not be used as evidence in any court or in any public office either as evidence against the individual, corporation, association, partnership, institution, or business enterprise from whom such data emanates; nor shall such data or information be divulged to any person except authorized employees of the BCS acting in the performance of their duties; nor shall such data be published except in the form of summaries or statistical tables in which no reference to an individual, corporation, association, partnership, institution or business enterprise shall appear." |
Authorization to use this data is granted only to the client or data user and persons within its organization, if applicable. Under no circumstances shall the client reproduce, distribute, sell or lend the entire data or parts thereof to any other data user apart from himself or that of authorized employees in his organization. The NSO shall hold the data user fully responsible for safeguarding the data from any unauthorized access or use.
Before being granted access to the dataset, all users have to formally agree:
- To make no copies of any files or portions of files to which s/he is granted access except those authorized by the NSO.
- Not to use any technique in an attempt to learn the identity of any person, establishment, or sampling unit not identified in the dataset.
- To hold in strictest confidence the identification of any establishment or individual that may be inadvertently revealed in any documents or discussion, or analysis. Such inadvertent identification revealed in her/his analysis will be immediately reported to the NSO.
Any report, paper or similar articles, whether published or not, emanating from the use of this data shall give appropriate acknowledgement as suggested herein, "2008 Annual Construction Statistics from Approved Building Permits, v1.0, March 8, 2010, National Statistics Office, Manila, Philippines", as the source of basic data. The data user or client is encouraged to provide NSO with a copy of such report, paper or article. It is understood that unless expressly allowed by the client, such report, paper or article shall not be used for any purpose other than monitoring.
Disclaimer and copyrights
The NSO gives no warranty that the data are free from errors. Hence, the NSO shall not be held responsible for any loss or damage as a result of the client's manipulation or tabulation of the data.
The data user acknowledges that any available intellectual property rights, including copyright in the data are owned by the National Statistics Office.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Director, Industry and Trade Statistics Department | National Statistics Office | info@census.gov.ph | www.census.gov.ph |
Metadata production
DDI_PHL_2008_BP_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Josephine S.Albino | National Statistics Office | Documenter |
| Dulce A. Regala | National Statistics Office | Reviewer |
| Accelerated Data Program | International Household Survey Network | Editing for the IHSN Survey Catalog |
2010-10-15
Metadata version
Version 01: Adopted from "DDI_PHL_2008_BP_v2_M" DDI that was done by metadata producers mentioned in "Metadata Production" section.