• Collecting data

Collecting data

This Users’ Guide provides basic information on various institutions engaged in establishing and identifying governance indicators generally used in the Philippines.

It does not prescribe or endorse any indicator or any one set of indicators, but briefly catalogues the institutions and agencies in the Philippines having sources of information that can serve as indicators of governance in the country.

The guide also presents and assembles data on the institutions generating possible governance indicators information, their location and contact numbers, how they generate data, how the indicators they use are determined and measured, and the frequency by which these are released.

The guide has the following sections:

• a country profile on the Philippines
• governance concepts and the need for indicators in the Philippines
• the structure of data in Identifying indicators and indicators sources in the Philippines
• a digest of governance indicators sources in the Philippines
• profiles and information on institutions generating governance indicators in the Philippines

The guide incorporates data and information coming from various sectors: the public sector, private and business groups, academic institutions and non-government organizations. The choice of indicators sources included and listed in this guide followed the following criteria:

• have a clear governance data aspect
• have data available
• open to national comparisons
• provide some information on their methodology
• available on the Internet with websites, and in English
• sources requiring no payment for access

Additionally, the guide includes institutions and organizations generating and releasing indicators sources that have “high profile values,” with “considerable impact” on governance-related decisions i.e., those which decision-makers in the public, business and non-profit sectors observe and use.

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