LESSON 2: DATA

COLLECTION ACTIVITY
LEARNING COMPETENCIES

 Recognize the importance of providing correct

information in a data collection activity;
 Understand the issue of confidentiality of
information in a data collection activity;
 Participate in a data collection activity; and
 Contextualize data
LESSON OUTLINE

1. Preliminaries in a Data Collection Activity

2. Performing a Data Collection Activity
3. Contextualization of Data
In data collection activity, specific identities
like their names are not required, especially
because people have a right to
confidentiality, but there should be a way to
develop and maintain a database to check
quality of data provided, and verify from
respondent in a data collection activity the
data that they provided (if necessary).
CONFIDENTIALITY OF
INFORMATION
In statistical activities, facts are collected
from respondents for purposes of getting
aggregate information, but confidentiality
should be protected.
PERFORMING A DATA COLLECTION
ACTIVITY
The purpose of this data collection activity is
to gather data that they could use for their
future lessons in Statistics. It is important
that you provide the needed information to
the best of your knowledge.
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1. CLASS STUDENT NUMBER: This is the
number that you provided confidentially to
the student at the start of the class.
2. SEX: This is the student’s biological sex
and not their preferred gender. Hence, they
have to choose only one of the two choices
by placing a check mark (√) at space
provided before the choices.
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3. NUMBER OF SIBLINGS: This is the number
of brothers and sisters that the student has in
their nuclear or immediate family. This
number excludes him or her in the count.
Thus, if the student is the only child in the
family then he/she will report zero as his/her
number of siblings
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4. WEIGHT (in kilograms): This refers to the
student’s weight based on the student’s
knowledge. Note that the weight has to be
reported in kilograms. In case the student
knows his/her weight in pounds, the value
should be converted to kilograms by dividing
the weight in pounds by a conversion factor
of 2.2 pounds per kilogram.
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5. HEIGHT (in centimeters): This refers to the
student’s height based on the student’s
knowledge. Note that the height has to be
reported in centimeters. In case the student
knows his/her height in inches, the value
should be converted to centimeters by
multiplying the height in inches by a
conversion factor of 2.54 centimeters per
inch.
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6. AGE OF MOTHER (as of her last birthday in years): This
refers to the age of the student’s mother in years as of her
last birthday, thus this number should be reported in
whole number. In case, the student’s mother is dead or
nowhere to be found, ask the student to provide the age
as if the mother is alive or around.You could help the
student in determining his/her mother’s age based on
other information that the student could provide like birth
year of the mother or student’s age. Note also that a zero
value is not an acceptable value
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7. USUAL DAILY ALLOWANCE IN SCHOOL (in
pesos): This refers to the usual amount in
pesos that the student is provided for when
he/she goes to school in a weekday. Note
that the student can give zero as response
for this item, in case he/she has no monetary
allowance per day.
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8. USUAL DAILY FOOD EXPENDITURE IN
SCHOOL (in pesos): This refers to the usual
amount in pesos that the student spends for
food including drinks in school per day. Note
that the student can give zero as response
for this item, in case he/she does not spend
for food in school.
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9. USUAL NUMBER OF TEXT MESSAGES SENT IN
A DAY: This refers to the usual number of text
messages that a student send in a day. Note
that the student can give zero as response
for this item, in case he/she does not have
the gadget to use to send a text message or
simply he/she does not send text messages.
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10. MOST PREFERRED COLOR: The student is
to choose a color that could be considered
his most preferred among the given choices.
Note that the student could only choose one.
Hence, they have to place a check mark (√)
at space provided before the color he/she
considers as his/her most preferred color
among those given.
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11. USUAL SLEEPING TIME: This refers to the
usual sleeping time at night during a typical
weekday or school day. Note that the time is
to be reported using the military way of
reporting the time or the 24-hour clock (0:00
to 23:59 are the possible values to use)
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All your responses is an example of a census
since data has been gathered from every
student in class.
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The government, through the Philippine
Statistics Authority (PSA), conducts censuses
to obtain information about socio-
demographic characteristics of the residents
of the country. Census data are used by the
government to make plans, such as how many
schools and hospitals to build.
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Censuses of population and housing are conducted
every 10 years on years ending in zero (e.g., 1990,
2000, 2010) to obtain population counts, and
demographic information about all Filipinos. Mid-
decade population censuses have also been
conducted since 1995. Censuses of Agriculture, and
of Philippine Business and Industry, are also
conducted by the PSA to obtain information on
production and other relevant economic
information.
PERFORMING A DATA COLLECTION ACTIVITY
PSA is the government agency mandated to
conduct censuses and surveys. Through Republic
Act 10625 (also referred to as The Philippine
Statistical Act of 2013), PSA was created from four
former government statistical agencies, namely:
National Statistics Office (NSO), National Statistical
Coordination Board (NSCB), Bureau of Labor and
Employment of Statistics (BLES) and Bureau of
Agricultural Statistics (BAS).
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The other agency created through RA 10625 is the
Philippine Statistical Research and Training
Institute (PSRTI) which is mandated as the research
and training arm of the Philippine Statistical
System. PSRTI was created from its forerunner the
former Statistical Research and Training Center
(SRTC).
CONTEXTUALIZATION OF DATA
3, red, F, 156, 4, 65, 50, 25, 1, M,
9, 40, 68, blue, 78, 168, 69, 3, F,
6, 9, 45, 50, 20, 200, white, 2,
pink, 160, 5, 60, 100, 15, 9, 8,
41, 65, black, 68, 165, 59, 7, 6,
35, 45,
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Although the collection is composed
of numbers and symbols that could
be classified as numeric or non-
numeric, the collection has no
meaning or it is not contextualized,
hence it cannot be referred to as
data.
CONTEXTUALIZATION OF DATA
Data are facts and figures that are
presented, collected and analyzed.
Data are either numeric or non-
numeric and must be contextualized.
CONTEXTUALIZATION OF DATA
To contextualize data, we must
identify its six W’s or to put meaning
on the data, we must know the
following W’s of the data:
CONTEXTUALIZATION OF DATA
1. Who? Who provided the data?
2. What? What are the information from
the respondents and What is the unit
of measurement used for each of the
information (if there are any)?
3. When? When was the data collected?
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4. Where? Where was the data collected?
5. Why? Why was the data collected?
6. HoW? HoW was the data collected?
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Once the data are contextualized, there
is now meaning to the collection of
number and symbols which may now look
like the following which is just a small
part of the data collected in the earlier
activity:
CONTEXTUALIZATION OF DATA
CLASS SEX NUMBER WEIGHT HEIGHT AGE OF USUAL USUAL USUAL MOST USUAL HAPPINESS
STUDENT OF (IN KG) (IN CM) MOTHER DAILY DAILY NUMBER PREFERRE SLEEPING INDEX FOR
NUMBER SIBLINGS (IN YEARS) ALLOWAN EXPENDIT OF TEXT D COLOR TIME THE DAY
(IN CE IN URE IN MESSAGES
PERSON) SCHOOL SCHOOL SENT IN A
(IN PESOS) (IN PESOS) DAY

1 M 2 60 156 60 200 90 20 RED 23:00 8

2 F 5 63 160 61 300 150 25 PINK 22:00 9

3 F 3 57 161 54 500 200 17 BLUE 19:00 9

4 M 0 55 156 58 150 70 15 BLACK 20:00 10

KEY POINTS
• Providing correct information in a
government data collection activity is a
responsibility of every citizen in the country.
• Data confidentiality is important in a data
collection activity.
• Census is collecting data from all possible
respondents.
KEY POINTS
• Data to be collected must be clarified
before the actual data collection.
• Data must be contextualized by answering
six W-questions
ANY QUESTION?