UNIT 9:
PHILIPPINE DEMOGRAPHY
By: Karl Jerick Lim
BSOT-1B
Demography is the statistical study of human being, employment, poverty, literacy, family planning and leading causes of death. Demographers seeks to understand population dynamics by investigating.
Comparing Philippine population from different years the number of people averaged to 56,980,000 million in 1960 and in 2013, reaching an all-time high of 98,390,000 million people. Changing the 250% during 55 years. Population estimates are usually produced by a country’s statistical office or Census Bureua. The Population Bureau provides the most reliable picture of the country’s population.
One impact of population increase is on employment rate. Among the occupation groups includes: laborers and unskilled workers comprises the largest proportion of the total employed population, following by the farmers, the forestry and the fisherman with the total employed population. Employed people are classified as either full-time workers or part-time workers. Full-time workers are those who work for 40 hours or more while part-time workers work for less than 40 hours. Employed people who express the desire to have additional hours for work in their present job or to have additional job, or to have a new job with longer working hours are considered underemployment. The largest proportion of the underemployment were working in the agricultural sector and service sector. One-third of the unemployment were in high school graduates, more than one-fifth were the college graduates, while about one-fifth were college graduates.
Another component of population increase that must be looked into this is the high poverty incidence. Poverty Incidences for fisherman, farmers, children, self-employed, and unpaid family workers are higher than the poverty incidence among population in the Philippines at 26.5% in 2009. Population increase and poverty are deemed inseparable in the country like the Philippines. Among the basic sectors, children, women, and individuals residing in urban areas accounted for the largest number of poor population in the country. A functionally literate person is one who can read, write, compute and comprehend. person who completed high school or a higher level of education are also considered functionally literate. Functional literacy rate is higher among persons with higher level of education. Among those who had reached but did not finish high school. By computation, Percent of those with some elementary education were functional literate, while only 5% among those with no formal education were functionally literate.
Family Planning is another step to address population increase in the country. The 2011 Family Health Survey (FHS) results reveal that the unmet need for family planning among married women in the Philippines remains high at 19.3%, 10.5% for the birth spacing and 8.8% for limiting birth. Unmet need for family planning refers to the proportion of currently married women who are not using any method of family planning but do not want any more children or prefer to space births. Total number need of family planning is substantially greater among women considered poor compared to non-poor women. Unmet need also decrease with increase education. Among women who had attained high school or high level of education, unmet need for spacing births is higher that for limiting birth. To met the need for family planning or to proportion of married women using a family method. Family planning techniques includes natural family planning, such as calendar, thermometer, withdrawal; artifacts ones, such as condoms, IUD, pill or contraceptive, surgical methods. Unplanned pregnancies inevitably results to dramatic rise of population. One in 3 birth in the Philippines is either unwanted or mistimed. Unplanned pregnancies are more likely to occur among younger women than older women. Among women age 15 - 19, 31% of births were unplanned, of which, inly 21% were unwanted. These findings are based on the responses of women age 15 - 49 years to the question as to whether each of their births the 5 years preceding the survey was wanted at the time of birth, mistimed or wanted but a later time, or wanted at all. Due to advancement of medicine, morality rate is declining. For, every 1,000 live births, 34 die before reaching the age of 5 years, according to the 2008 NDHS.
The 3 main causes of detain the Philippines are: first, Heart diseases; second, Cerebrovascular diseases; and third, Malignant neoplasm or Cancer.
I commend the writer for this informational demographic insight. The challenge before us now is to bring plans from the plane of discussion to the plane of action. As a Filipino, the scope of this demographic lesson is limited to only the privilege ones who are well-aware of their environment. We cannot reduce this issue of morality of the uneducated to a matter of only hopes and religious belief. It involves the reliance of everyone especially those in poverty and misery to promoting objectives in our tool of persuasion and not compulsion - in impoverishing million of Filipinos.
ReplyDeleteIt's evident that we are becoming very crowded in the Philippines. This causes poverty in some areas in the Philippines.
ReplyDeleteTo eradicate poverty is to eradicate corruption. - Mia Russell
ReplyDeleteEveryone should take note that the increase of population means the depletion of supplies, hence causing poverty and hunger all around the country. Once the root of all problems are discovered, clearing them up would be the next big step to a better country.
ReplyDelete-Paul Beltran
We should be well aware of the state of our country.Poverty is increasing due to overpopulation and the slow process of resource to help sustain the many number of people.If we just learned and made a move about this we could still change this.
ReplyDelete-Marc Lim
It all starts with us and the government. The people should be able to be more responsible and have family planning so we wouldn't have overpopulation. But since there is no family planning it leads to overpopulation which leads to poverty and we don't see the government doing anything about it.
ReplyDeleteOverpopulation equals poverty, and vise versa. Overpopulation means the demands for goods increase, and when they increase so do the prices. People should take overpopulation seriously.
ReplyDeleteWord of advice: familly planinng and control
ReplyDeleteHuman overpopulation will become a serious problem within the next few decades. It could quite possibly reach the point of driving the human being species to extinction. The solution is to establish a policy and system of family planning, birth control, and education.
ReplyDeleteThe only way to raise standard of living to stop the birth rate is through free markets without the oppression of corrupt governments upon their people. Freedom raises living standards, Period. No country on Earth has true economic freedom.
ReplyDeleteOverpopulation could be a really serious problem since a lot of factors can be affected just because of this. Our solution should be to provide an educational system to lessen the rate of birth and such.
ReplyDeleteAuthentic development would reduce population growth without the need for the adoption of policies that in countries such as ours have been contentious and divisive -- and which are not likely to work in the long term, there being a correlation between high population growth rates and underdevelopment.
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There are so many solutions to the problem of overpopulation but sadly, we are not adopting them. We have to implement this into our systems. As for poverty, it is always there wherever we go. We can't eradicate poverty (although we CAN prevent it from happening). It is always there. The least that we can do for those who are in need is to have feeding programs, give clothes, water, food and all the basic needs in order for them to survive.
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