ME THODOLOGY

Study Design
This study focuses on cooperatives operating in La Trinidad, Benguet. The ultimate
respondents of this research are the manager of cooperatives registered under Cooperative
Development Authority or an appointed representative with the knowledge about the topic of the
research if the manager is unavailable to obtain information regarding its operation through the
use of interview guide questions prepared by the proponents and validated by Research and
Development Center of University of Baguio. The proponents choose qualitative design to
collect information from the respondents regarding its management of community development
fund. On where does cooperatives allocate their CDF and what specific projects do they spend it
due to the fact that there is a specific or standard percentage in the Cooperative Code of the
Philippines? Using a qualitative design will surely satisfy the research to be conducted. Answers
will be recorded with the interviewee’s consent and the responses will be accumulated to assess
and understand the transaction and operations of the cooperative as well as the differences and
commonality of the answer of each respondent before drawing a conclusion on how can we help
them provide a suitable projects for the community to be shared to the cooperative’s manager or
appointed representative at the end of the research.

Population of the study

A research population is also known as a well-defined collection of individuals or objects
known to have similar characteristics (Explorable, 2019). The target population of this research
are the cooperatives in La Trinidad, Benguet. The accessible population is the population in
research to which the researchers can apply their conclusions. In this case the accessible
population will be the manager or an appointed representative of the cooperatives. The managers
or the appointed representative has the capability to answer the interview questions because they
have the general knowledge about the cooperatives they are working for. The research will only
include the cooperatives within La Trinidad, Benguet. All other cooperatives outside the vicinity
will be excluded in the research. In this research there will be seven (7) cooperatives to be
interviewed in La Trinidad, Benguet. The cooperatives where selected using random sampling.
Random sampling is a subset of individuals randomly selected by researchers to represent an
entire group as a whole (Kendra Cherry, 2019).