DEFINITION OF TERMS

Agricultural Production - refers to vegetable and animal production that is made available for human consumption and animal feed.

Aquaculture – sector of fisheries that includes the rearing or raising under controlled conditions of aquatic products such as fish, oysters, mussels, sea weeds and other aquatic resources in sea, lakes and rivers. Examples are fishponds, fish pens and fish cages.

Commercial Fishing – sector of fisheries that includes the catching of fish in marine waters with the use of fishing boat of more than three (3) gross tons.

Municipal Fishing – sector of fisheries that includes the catching of fish in marine and inland waters with the use of fishing boat of three (3) gross tons or less, or using gear not requiring the use of boats.

Gross Regional Domestic Product - aggregate of the gross value added or income from each industry or economic activity of the regional economy.

Gross Value Added – the difference between gross output and intermediate consumption. Gross outputs of a production unit during a given period is equal to the gross value of the goods and services produced during the period and recorded at the moment they are produced, regardless of whether or not there is a change of ownership.

GVA in Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing (AFF) – comprises the value-added of establishments primarily engage in growing crops, raising animals, harvesting timber, fish and other animals from a farm, ranch or their natural habitats.

GVA in Industry – covers value-added from manufacturing, mining and quarrying, construction and energies.

GVA in Services – covers the value-added of governmental, professional, personal or financial services, such as: education, health care, real estate services, banking, transport, hotel & restaurant and the whole sale and retail trade.

Alternative Learning System (ALS) - is a parallel learning system in the Philippines that provides opportunities for out-of-school youth and adult (OSYA) learners to develop basic and functional literacy skills, and to access equivalent pathways to complete basic education. It encompasses both non-formal and informal sources of knowledge and skills.

Enrollment - Total number of pupils/students who register/enlist in a school year.

Alienable and Disposable Land - Lands of the public domain which have been the subject of the present system of classification and declared as not needed for forest purposes.

Forest Land – refers to lands of the public domain which have not been declared as alienable and disposable and includes the public forest reserves, forest reservations, timberlands, grazing lands, game refuge and birds sanctuaries.

Inflation Rate - the annual rate of change or the year-on-year change in the Consumer Price Index.

Magnitude of the Poor - the number of families or the population whose annual per capita income falls below the poverty threshold.

Poverty Incidence (PI) - the proportion of families/individuals with per capita income / expenditure less than the per capita poverty threshold to the total number of families/individuals.

Irrigation – purposely providing land with water, other than rain, for improving pastures or crop production. Irrigation usually implies the existence of infrastructure and/or equipment for applying water to crops, such as irrigation canals, pumps, sprinklers or localized watering systems.

National Primary Roads – A contiguous length of significant road sections extending linearly without any breaks or forks that connect major cities (at least around 100,000 population) comprising the main trunk line or the backbone of the national road system.

Permanent Bridges – are those concrete and steel bridge structures.

Temporary Bridges - are those structures are comprised of either bailey or timber.

Power - the flow of electrical power is a secondary energy source generated by the conversion of primary sources of energy like fossil, nuclear, wind or solar.

Tech4ED Center - stands for "Technology for Education, Employment, Entrepreneurs, and Economic Development", a self-sustaining, shared facility providing access to ICT-enabled services and relevant content. It serves as a conduit for efficient delivery of government and other services and a potent tool for the empowerment and participation of the unserved and underserved communities in development.

Digital Transformation Center - will serve as the Public’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Hub where incubation for startups happen, co-working space for innovative collaboration and knowledge-sharing, and training especially tailored to fit community needs.

Value-Added Service (VAS) Providers - An entity which, relying on the transmission, switching and local distribution facilities of the local exchange and inter-exchange operators, and overseas carriers, offers enhanced services beyond those ordinarily provided for by such carriers.

Population - total number of individuals in a territory at a specified time. It covers both nationals and aliens, native and foreign-born persons, internees, refugees and any other group physically present within the borders of a country at a specified time.

Population Growth Rate – indicates how fast a population increases or decreases as a result of the interplay of births, deaths, and migration during a given period of time.

Barangay - the smallest political unit into which cities and municipalities in the Philippines are divided. It is the basic unit of the Philippine political system. It consists of less than 1,000 inhabitants residing within the territorial limit of a city or municipality and administered by a set of elective officials, headed by a barangay chairman (punong barangay).

Municipality – is a political corporate body which is endowed with the facilities of a municipal corporation, exercised by and through the municipal government in conformity with law. It is a subsidiary of the province which consists of a number of barangays within its territorial boundaries, one of which is the seat of government found at the town proper (poblacion).

Province - the largest unit in the political structure of the Philippines. It consists, in varying numbers, of municipalities and, in some cases, of component cities. Its functions and duties in relation to its component cities and municipalities are generally coordinative and supervisory.

Visitor Arrivals – includes tourist, excursionists, aliens entering the country for a temporary stay not exceeding one year and for purposes other than immigration, permanent residence or employment for remuneration in the country and Filipino nationals residing permanently abroad on temporary stay in the Philippines not exceeding one year.

Balance of Trade - the difference between the export earnings and import payments of all goods or merchandise trade transacted by a country.

Export - all goods leaving the country which are properly cleared through the Customs.

Free on Board (F.O.B.) Value - the value of the goods free on board the carrier at the frontier of the exporting country. It includes inland freight, export duty and other expenses. Ocean freight, insurance and consular fee are, however, excluded.

Import - all goods entering any of the seaports or airports of entry of the Philippines properly cleared through the Customs or remaining under Customs control, whether the goods are for direct consumption, for merchanting, for warehousing or for further processing.

Cargo – refers to goods carried either using air, land and water transportation.

Base Port (BP) – a sheltered harbor where marine terminal facilities are provided for.

Passengers – persons traveling from one place to another using either air, land and water as mode of transportation.

Shipcalls - The number of vessels which call or arrive at a particular port at any given time.

Crude Birth Rate (CBR) - is a measure of one characteristic of the natural growth or increase of a population.

Crude Death Rate (CDR) – the ratio of the number of deaths occurring within one year to the mid-year population expressed per 1,000 population.

Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) – the probability of dying between birth and age one, expressed as the number of infant deaths or deaths occurring before reaching 12 months of life in a given period per 1,000 live births.

Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) - It measures the risk of dying from causes related to pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium. It is an index of the obstetrical care needed and received by the women in a community