CBMS Data Collection

• Data is collected through the conduct of a census of households
• Instruments
  • Household Profile Questionnaire
  • Barangay (Village) Profile Questionnaire

CBMS Data Processing

• Manual Data Processing
  • Tally sheets
• Computerized Data Processing
  • Uses the following freeware:
    • CSPro-based encoding system
    • CBMS StatSim
    • CBMS-NRDB

Data validation and Community Consultation

• An activity to ensure that local leaders and the rest of the community are informed of the results of the CBMS survey
• Provides an avenue for verifying the accuracy of the findings of the survey by facilitating discussions on possible reasons for said findings
• Serves as a pre-planning activity by Identifying the major problems of the community and solicit possible interventions needed to resolve these problems