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January 18, 2018
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KALIBO, Aklan – The Philippine Statistics Authority is surveying 35 sample households in Aklan to estimate the average wage rates of agricultural farm workers.
The survey will focus on farm workers producing rice, corn, coconut, and sugarcane.
It also aims to generate gender-based data for wage rates and determine the extent of women’s participation in agricultural production activities.
Provincial Statistics Officer Antonet Catubuan said statistics on wage rates are useful inputs in investment decisions, policy making and program formulation related to the agriculture sector.
Households that hired farm workers from July to December 2017 are the statistical unit in the survey.
Among the data to be collected from identified samples comprise daily wage rate of farm workers by crops, by basis of payment and by farm activity, number of mandays per hectare by crop, by farm activity, by source of labor, and by sex, distribution of hired workers by terms of payment, and distribution of farm households employing hired workers by farm activity.
Results of a similar survey conducted in 2016 revealed that agricultural workers in Western Visayas received, on the average, a real wage rate of P160.43 per day.
Male farm workers were paid P161.03 per day, higher by P1.34 than what female farm workers received, which is P159.69.
Workers in rice farms registered the highest wage rate at P169.13 per day while corn farm laborers received the least wage rate at P146.27 per day.
The daily wage rates of those working in coconut and sugarcane farms pegged at P149.86 and P169.83, respectively.
Catubuan urges respondents to give correct answers to data collectors.
She assured them that all information will be held strictly confidential as provided for by law. (With PSA Aklan/PN)
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