Community Profiling

What is COMMUNITY PROFILING?

 “ A comprehensive description of the needs
of a population that is defined, or defines
itself, as a community, and the resource
that exist within that community, carried
out with the active involvement of the
community itself for the purpose of
developing an action plan on other means
of improving 0f the quality of life of the
community” Hawkin and Pery-Smith,
2007.p5.
Profiling describes the process of building
a detailed picture of a target community
through involving local people and
working in partnership with
organisations and individuals who plan
and deliver services in the area. Chirico,
et al. Op cit.
Importance of community profiling:
Useful to gather information may not be
recorded.
Highlights gaps in our understanding.
Encourage broader thinking.
Determine who is likely to be affected.
Means to develop relationships and build
capacity.
Gather community intelligence over time.
TYPES OF COMMUNITY PROFILING

Individual action plan

-Done by an individual work to be oriented
to the community
Corporate action plan
-Done by group(NGO, government,
company)
Professional profile
-Someone is brought in to do a profile for
the group
Focused profile
-Very clear idea on what the
community profile need to address and
to take action on.
Church-based profile
-Profile is link to faith-based goals or
actions.
PROCEDURES:
Identify research issues and set objectives
-community profiles do not need to provide
data on every aspects of a community . The
community profile should provide an entry
point so that researcher have a better idea
of where to look, whom to interview, and
which approach to use in the future
research to provide deeper understanding
and learning.
Select and sequence tools
-a wide range of tools and methods can be
used to gather data to build a useful
community profile which might include
participatory tools (community resource
mapping, transect walk, seasonal
calendars, timelines, Venn diagram,
ranking exercise, and so on). Interviews
(semi-structural interviews, focus group
interviews/discussion, key informant
interview) and secondary data. The tools
chosen should be logically sequenced to
progressively build a community profile.
Record the data
-data recording should be ongoing so that
data is not mislaid, forgotten, or reported
inaccurately.
Validate the findings
-information can be validate through
community meetings with a wide cross
section of the community or in a smaller
focus group discussion, which provide
opportunities to compare the interpretation
of information collected with local analyst
understanding.
CENSUS
-is an enumeration of people or items in a
particular country or area. This term is
most often to define the number of
population. The word “census” comes from
a Latin word “censue”, it means, to asses,
or in terms of statistics to estimate (the
Encyclopedia America 1951).
- the population census is an important
way of collecting information about age,
occupation, residence, etc. Of people living
in a particular country at a specific time.
2 main types of census
1. De Facto Population Census- involves the
counting of only those who are present
physically when the census is performed.
Only people who are living w/in the boarders
of the country or are seen by the census
expert are counted.
2. De Jure Population Census- involves the
counting of only people who have been
permanent resident of a specific area, but
they were not necessary present when the
census was performed. This is population
census is also considered counting by proxy.
TYPES OF DATA COLLECTED
Basic characters- age, marital status,
household sizes and composition, family
characteristics and others.
Economic characteristics- occupation, position,
employment related industries, and
educational attributes, such as school
attendance, educational achievements, and
literacy.
Geographic and migration information
Place of birth, place of usual residence, its
duration, prior place of residence. In some
countries, information of birth and deaths is
also collected.
Information of the Housing-the
construction materials, the year of
construction, number of rooms/occupants.
It also provide information on types of
facilities such as water, toilet, sewerages,
bathing, cooking and the lighting.
STAGES OF CONDUCTING THE CENSUS
1. Planning and preparation for data
collection-it requires meticulous planning
of all the details including methodological
contents and technological as well as the
organizational and administrative fields.
2. Data collection- it requires direct contact
with the resident, the indirect contact can
also be made with the use of information
found in administrative resources.
3. Producing the result- it can take 1 to a
few years to process, estimate, analyse,
publish and distribute the census data.
3 ACTIVITIES ARE CONDUCTED
1. Preparing the final file(connecting errors,
editing of the data, restoring the lost
data and doing the final calculations)
2. Producing the products used to
published and distribute the findings of
the census.
3. Assessing the reliability of data obtained.
CHARACTERISTICS OF CENSUS
1. It is conducted by the government of the
country where it is taking place.
2. It is performed at the same time
throughout the whole country.
3. It involves time intervals.
4. It reveals the population of a particular
country at a specific year.
5. It involves the physical counting of people.
6. It involves knowledge experts who are
specialized in population studies.
 IMPORTANCE OF CENSUS
Population and housing census is a stock taking of
human resources of a country and their living
conditions at one point of time.
It provides basic data on demographic, social and
economic variables about each person and each
housing units.
Data collected through census serves as bench
mark for all types of socio-economic development
plans, administrative activities and demographic
research.
THE PHILIPPINE CENSUS POPULATION
AND HOUSING
- is a regularly occurring and official
inventory of the human popularity as well
as housing units in the Philippines. The
population is enumerated every 5 years
(beginning on 1970, except in 2005 where it
was moved to 2007 due to budgetary
constraints) and the result are used to
allocate congressional seats (congressional
apportionment) and government program
funding.
-By virtue of Republic Act No. 10625 known
as the Philippine Statistical Act of 2013,
census in the Philippines are administered
by the Philippine Statistics Authority.