The total population of the individual contractors in Pagbilao, Lucena, Sariaya and Candelaria

are 20, 20, 10 and 10 respectively. There are 12 construction firms resided in Pagbilao, 15 in

Lucena, 9 in Sariaya, and 11 in Candelaria. To arrive at the total sample size subjected for

survey for every town, the researcher uses the Slovin’s Formula.

Table 2.2.1 population of Individual Contractors, Construction Firms, Engineers and Architects

Individual Construction
Municipality/City Engineers Architects N
contractors Firms

Pagbilao 13 8 8 3 32

Lucena 20 15 19 5 59

Sariaya 8 9 13 3 33

Candelaria 7 11 13 3 34

To get the sample size, of the individual contractors, construction firms, engineers and

architects, the sum of the population of contractors, construction firms, engineers and architects

is calculated for each town representing as the total population size and is used to substitute for

N as the population size and a 5% margin of error is used. The researcher came up with an

actual sample size presented on the Table 2.2.2.The sample size determined the number of

questionnaires to be floated to random contractors, firms, engineers and architectsto be

segmented.

Table 2.2.2 The tabulated result of the total sample size for every town and municipality

Municipality/City N n

Pagbilao 32 30

Lucena 59 51
 Sariaya 33 30

Candelaria 34 31

Total 143