Below is the summary of comments, issues and concerns raised and actions taken during the Level II training.
| Issues/Concerns/Comments | Action(s) Taken/To be Taken |
| 1. Instruction about mapping was not included in the manual. | The NSO trainer presented the procedure on how to use the map based on the procedures they use when conducting a survey. |
| 2. There was no copy of the translated “Kankanaey” dialect during the training. | Prof. Rosario Jimenez contacted the CHRP and the NCIP through cell phone to provide the revised copy to NSO before they left for the enumeration. |
| 3. How will those on vacation be treated in the household roster? | For Column 2, under the Demographic profile, the 30-day rule shall be followed for members of the household who come home at least once a month, and the OCWs who are on vacation during the enumeration shall be included; exclude those who are out/absent due to work abroad during the enumeration. |
| 4. Will a student who helps in farm chores on weekends be considered to have an occupation? | A full-time student who helps during Saturday and Sunday on the farm is considered to have a gainful occupation (Column 10). |
| 5. For cases of a household member with multiple work activities, which activity will prevail? | Consider the following: permanency, time spent, and income, in that order. |
| 6. To whom does nuclear family in Letter C refer? | The nuclear family in Letter C refers to the father, mother and unmarried children. |
| 7. Items 14a or 14 b should be separated for special cases that both are reported but one item (14b) is not under customary laws. | To get the answers for both items, place the answer beside the square. This is following NSO survey procedure: when in doubt, include. |
| 8. The TS aired their opinion as to the quota requirement of four households per EN per day, including the TS four re-interviews/spot-checks in Benguet, is difficult to accomplish considering the geography and location of households requiring long hikes to reach the barangay or the household sample area. | The RD/OIC-PSO instructed them to try and follow the quota and make a report as to the actual experiences during the enumeration relative to the distance of the samples, the respondents, etc. |
| 9. The letter from CHRP informing the LGU about the conduct of the Metagora survey was not yet provided. | The co-project staff informed Ms. Ybanez about this matter. A copy of the letter was sent to NSO-Vigan via fax. |
| 10. No translation of the questionnaire into local dialects (i.e. Ilocano, Bago). |
The representative of NCIP translated the questionnaire into Ilocano dialect. CHRP will be sending the translation which is being printed. |
| 11. There are questions where the answers have to be read out to the respondent but there are no instructions to do so in the manual. This created confusion among the trainees. | The choices of answers for the following questions will be read out to the respondent: Questions 18, 27, 28 and 30. |
| 12. The choices of answers in Q. 29, as written in the questionnaire, look like they should be read out to the respondent.
| Q.29 will be rephrased from “Aside from the government, do you usually go to for help regarding your land?" to “Aside from the government, where do you usually go to for help regarding your land?” The choices for this question are not to be read out. |
| 13. Per initial query of the enumerators assigned to the local residents of Barangay Caoayan, Municipality of Sugpon, of the total sample of households listed in the PSDIPRAD Forms 4 and 4 A, only one household belongs to Bago Tribe, the other households are Kankanaeys.
| As per the sampling design, households that have no Bago tribe member will not be interviewed. Instead, the enumerator will look for any households near the cluster area that have any member belonging to the Bago Tribe. If the said household is not found in the area, then the household listed in Form 4A will be interviewed even if they belong to the Kankanaey tribe. In this case, indicate on the questionnaire that the HH is Kankanaey and not Bago. |
| 16. Five days of enumeration is not enough for the ENs to conduct the survey. |
Five days is enough since the ENs are expected to stay in or are residents of the sample barangays where they are assigned to enumerate. However, if difficult terrain or bad weather is encountered, there are cases where the 5-day enumeration could be extended. |
| 17. ENs expressed fears of being harassed while conducting the survey in the sample barangays (Dine, Kakiduguen) where the officials (e.g., barangay captain, municipal mayor) are both migrant IPs. The migrant IPs may feel threatened once the Bugkalots become aware of their rights related to ancestral domain and ancestral lands. | One of the participants is a Bugkalot Chieftain. He offered that he will be the one to talk to and coordinate with the Bugkalots in these sample areas and that the survey will be conducted outside these barangays. |
| 18. The participants were able to identify that some of the listed sample households and their replacements were allegedly not Bugkalots. | As per instruction from the Metagora project coordinators, in the event the list of sample households and replacements become exhausted, or if the respondent is not qualified to be covered, the ENs can replace the sample households provided that they are replaced with Bugkalots. |
| 19. The ENs asked for clarification as to who will sign the questionnaire once it is completed. | Any member of the Team can sign the questionnaire provided that he/she is the one who interviewed the respondent. |
| 20. According to NCIP, qualification requirements of hiring SRs are too high, re: educational attainment – college graduate. | Per requirement, the educational qualification is college graduate, however, OIC-RD Alejandro reiterated that at least 2nd year college can be recruited and hired as ENs/SRs. |
| 21. From the statement: B.2.7 “IPs access to water resources in their ancestral domains and ancestral lands is protected from encroachment and pollution.”
It was asked what is being protected: the “access” or the “water resources”. |
It was pointed out that what are being protected are actually the “water resources” and not the IPs’ “access” to water resources. |
| 22. “No response” should be replaced with “No Comment,” since the responses "Yes," "No," and "Don’t Know" are signals to the enumerators to proceed to the next statement on the questionnaire. | |
| 23. From the Statement C.11, ”How long has your family lived here?”, choice No. 1, “31 and over/since time immemorial” is in conflict with the definition of family given in the manual (p.21), “In the following questions, the family refers to the nuclear family in the household.” The words “time immemorial” may be referring to grandparents or ancestors who do not fall within the nuclear family. | Redefine family to include extended family. |
| 24. From the statement C.14 a & b, “Has there been a transfer of land or property rights: Among members of your community? Among non-members of your community?", the word IP should be indicated in the statement. | |
| 25. From the statement D. 15: “Aside from residential use, how is your family utilising your land? 1. Cultivation by self or family members; 2. Renting/leasing out to others,"
No. 5 choice: "Not Applicable (go to 17)" should be deleted from the choices. | |
| 26. A migrant bought, then occupied, a parcel of land in Ancestral Domains. Can that land be recovered by IPs? | According to Atty. Chauhan, IPs can recover the ancestral land. |
| The questionnaire still had some errors. | |
