POPCOM’s Philippine Population Management Program (PPMP) – Directional Plan (DP)

2017 - 2022

What is the title of the Philippine Population Management Program Directional Plan (PPMP DP) 2017
– 2022?
Answer: Tungo sa Matatag, Maginhawa, at Planadong Pamilyang Pilipino

It aims to empower Filipino individuals, families and communities by enabling them to achieve their
fertility intentions, prevent adolescent pregnancy, and consciously take into consideration
population factors in sustainable development initiatives.
Answer: Philippine Population Management Program

What are the 3 key sub-programs of PPMP?

Answer: Responsible Parenthood and Family Planning (RPFP), Adolescent Health and
Development (AHD), Population and Development (POPDEV) Integration

It provides a collaborative framework and medium-term blueprint for the various implementing
partners of the population management program including the relevant national government
agencies, local government units, civil society organizations, development partners, and the private
sector. It serves as a reference for integrated and well-coordinated implementation of key strategies
that harness the potential from the increasing human resource and address population issues that
constrain sustainable development.
Answer: Philippine Population Management Program Directional Plan for 2017-2022

Philippine Population Management Program (PPMP) hoped that all key players in the
implementation of the program are effectively guided by this Plan towards the realization of _____.
Answer: Matatag, Maginhawa, at Planadong Pamilyang Pilipino

The Duterte Administration’s 0-10 point socio-economic agenda boasts of inclusive development
directed towards achieving the Filipinos’ aspiration of _____ (strongly-rooted, comfortable, and
secure life for all).
Answer: Matatag, Maginhawa, at Panatag na Buhay para sa Lahat

The Duterte Administration’s 0-10 point socio-economic agenda boasts of inclusive development
directed towards achieving the Filipinos’ aspiration of Matatag, Maginhawa, at Panatag na Buhay
para sa Lahat (_____).
Answer: strongly-rooted, comfortable, and secure life for all

The _____ aims to end poverty and fight inequality through the 17 Sustainable Development Goals
– one of which is the attainment of universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services
and rights for all.
Answer: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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Who is the Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning and the Chair of POPCOM Board of Commissioners?
Answer: Ernesto M. Pernia

President Rodrigo Duterte issued _____ to urgently attain zero unmet need for modern family
planning as one of the legacies of the Philippine Health Agenda.
Answer: EO No. 12

Who is the Executive Director of the Commission on Population?

Answer: Juan Antonio A. Perez

The path to development through the socio-economic agenda laid out by President Duterte’s
Administration is geared towards the attainment of “_____,” which embodies the Filipinos’
aspiration of “Matatag, Maginhawa, at Panatag na Buhay para sa Lahat.”
Answer: Ambisyon Natin 2040

Name the three pillars on which socio-economic agenda laid out by President Duterte’s
Administration is anchored on.
Answer: Malasakit, Pagbabago at Patuloy na Pag-unlad

Which pillar will be realized by regaining people’s trust?

Answer: Malasakit

Which pillar will be realized through reducing inequality to make ordinary Filipinos feel change by
expanding economic opportunities, reducing vulnerability of the poor, and accelerating human
capital development?
Answer: Pagbabago

Which pillar will be realized by promoting technology adoption, encouraging innovation, and
maximizing the gains from the demographic dividend?
Answer: Patuloy na Pag-unlad

What is Chapter 10 Title of the Philippine Development Plan for 2017-2022?

Answer: Accelerating Human Capital Development

What is Chapter 13 Title of the Philippine Development Plan for 2017-2022?

Answer: Reaching for the Demographic Dividend

Chapter _____ (Accelerating Human Capital Development) and Chapter _____ (Reaching for the
Demographic Dividend) of the PDP specifically emphasized the need to intensify the implementation
of the Philippine Population Management Program (PPMP) as an integral strategy for national
development.
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Answer: 10, 13

_____ remain as critical factors in development in the Philippines.

Answer: Population issues

What is the population size (in million) of the country in 2015?

Answer: 101 million

What is the population size (in million) of the country in 2010?

Answer: 92.34 million

What is the population size (in million) of the country in 2000?

Answer: 76.51 million

The population in 2015 is higher by how many compared with the population in 2010?
Answer: 8.64 million

The population in 2015 is higher by how many compared with the population in 2000?
Answer: 24.47 million

What was the Annual Growth Rate of the Philippines in 2000 – 2010 period and 2010 – 2015 period?
Answer: 1.9%, 1.7%

How many Filipinos are being added to the population every year?
Answer: About 2 Million

If the rate of growth is maintained, about how many Filipinos will be added by year 2020?
Answer: 8 million

Filipinos are _____ distributed across regions.

Answer: unequally

About how many Filipinos reside in highly urbanized regions of CALABARZON, Central Luzon, and
Metro Manila based on 2015 Philippine Census?
Answer: 38.5 Million

_____ is the region with the lowest number of Filipinos while _____ is the region with the highest
number of Filipinos based on 2015 Philippine Census?
Answer: CAR, IV-A

What is the population of CALABARZON (IV-A) based on 2015 Philippine Census?

Answer: 14,414,774

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Name the top 3 regions with the highest number of Filipinos based on 2015 Philippine Census?
Answer: IV-A, NCR, III

What is the population of Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) based on 2015 Philippine Census?
Answer: 1,722,006

Name the top 3 regions with the highest number of Filipinos based on 2010 Philippine Census?
Answer: IV-A, NCR, III

What region has the lowest number of Filipinos based on 2010 Philippine Census?
Answer: CAR

In 2010, about _____ or _____ Filipinos were living in urban barangays.

Answer: 45%, 41.9 million

Name the 4 regions which had a level of urbanization higher than the level of urbanization for the
whole country.
Answer: III, IV-A, XI, XII

The National Capital Region (NCR) has been 100% urbanized since _____.
Answer: 1995

What is the level of urbanization of NCR in 2010?

Answer: 100

What is the level of urbanization in the Philippines in 2010?

Answer: 45.3

What is the level of urbanization in the Philippines in 2007?

Answer: 42.4

What was the Urban Population of the Philippines in 2010?

Answer: 41,855,571

What region has the lowest Level of Urbanization in 2010?

Answer: VIII

What was the Level of Urbanization of Region IV-A in 2010?

Answer: 59.7

What was the Level of Urbanization of Region XI in 2010?

Answer: 59.3

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What was the Level of Urbanization of Region III in 2010?
Answer: 51.6

What was the Level of Urbanization of Region XII in 2010?

Answer: 46.5

What is the level of urbanization of Region VIII-Eastern Visayas in 2010?

Answer: 8.7

The country’s population remains relatively _____.

Answer: young

How many Filipinos who were below 15 years of age in 2010?

Answer: 30.7 million

What was the percentage of Filipinos who were 15-64 years old in 2010?
Answer: 62.3%

What was the percentage of Filipinos who were aged 65 and over in 2010?
Answer: 4.3%

It means a continuing increase in population due to the large cohorts of young women who will soon
enter the childbearing years and contribute to the fertility level in the country. This also implies a
large number of young dependents.
Answer: Young Population

How many are young (14 years and below) dependents for every 100 working-age (15-64 years old)
persons in 2010?
Answer: 54

How many are old (65 years and above) dependents for every 100 working-age (15-64 years old)
persons in 2010?
Answer: 7

The young age group exhibited a _____ trend up to 2010 while the 15-64 and 65 and over age groups
exhibited an _____ trend up to 2010.
Answer: downward, increasing

The change in age structure is _____ primarily due to prevailing high fertility among women in the
country.
Answer: slow

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It implies a continuing increase in population due to the large cohorts of young women who will soon
enter the childbearing years and contribute to the fertility level.
Answer: Young Population

What does DRDF stand for?

Answer: Demographic Research and Development Foundation

What does UPPI stand for?

Answer: University of the Philippines Population Institute

What was the percent share of youth to the total population in 2010 based on DRDF and UPPI Young
Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study in the Philippines - Key Findings in 2014?
Answer: 19.6%

What is the total youth aged 15-24 population in 2010?

Answer: 18,045,895

Younger cohort ages _____ years old.

Answer: 15-19

Older cohort ages _____ years old.

Answer: 20-24

_____ or _____ belong to the younger cohort (15-19 years old) in 2010?
Answer: 54%, 9,676,094

_____ or _____ belong to the older cohort (20-24 years old) in 2010?
Answer: 46%, 8,369,801

What is the projected youth population in 2040?

Answer: 22.2 million

What is the percentage of the population in the older ages (60+) in 2010?
Answer: 6.8%

What is the percentage of the population in the older ages (60+) in 2000?
Answer: 6%

In terms of sex characteristic, female population 60 years and over in 2010 (_____) outnumbered
the males (_____).
Answer: 55.8%, 44.2%

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How many regions which have a proportion of senior citizens higher than the national figure in 2010?
Answer: 8

For geographical distribution, 8 regions have a proportion of senior citizens higher than the national
figure in 2010. Name those regions and the corresponding percentage of their senior citizens.
Answer: I, VI, VIII, VII, II, III, XIII, CAR

_____, with _____, has the lowest proportion of senior citizens in 2010.
Answer: ARMM, 2.9%

What is the percentage distribution of age 0-14 to the total population in 2010?
Answer: 33.4%

What is the percentage distribution of age 15-59 to the total population in 2010?
Answer: 59.9%

It is the proportion of persons age 60 years and over per 100 persons and under the age of 15 years.
Answer: Ageing Index

There is _____ person aged 60 years and over for every five children under 15 years old in 2010.
Answer: 1

What is the Ageing Index of the Philippines in 2010?

Answer: 20.3%

What is the Ageing Index of the Philippines in 2000?

Answer: 16.1%

What is the percentage of projected population for 60 and over in 2025?

Answer: 9.9

What is the percentage of projected population for 65 and over in 2025?

Answer: 6.5

What is the percentage of projected population for 60 and over in 2045?

Answer: 15.9

What is the percentage of projected population for 65 and over in 2045?

Answer: 11.4

What does NCIP stand for?

Answer: National Commission on Indigenous Peoples
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What is the estimated number of Indigenous population based on the unofficial survey of NCIP?
Answer: 12-15 million

What is the percentage of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) to the total population of the Philippines?
Answer: 10-15%

The IPs are present in _____ of the country’s 78 provinces.

Answer: 65

The United Nations Development Program estimates that IPs who belonged to 110 ethno-linguistic
groups in the country is at _____ Million in 2013.
Answer: 14-17

What is the percentage of IPs located in Northern Luzon (CAR)?

Answer: 33%

What is the percentage of IPs located in Mindanao?

Answer: 61%

What is the number of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) presented by PSA in 2010?

Answer: 8 million

About _____ per thousand of the country’s population is affected with disability in 2010.
Answer: 16

Of the 92.1 Million household population, _____ or _____ had disability, based on the 2010 Census
of Population and Housing.
Answer: 1,443 thousand persons, 1.57%

The recorded figure of persons with disability in the 2000 CPH was _____, which was _____ of the
household population.
Answer: 935,551 persons, 1.23%

Among the 17 regions, Region _____ had the highest number of PWD at _____ in 2010.
Answer: IV-A, 193,000

What region has the second highest number of PWD in 2010?

Answer: NCR

The _____ is the region with the lowest number of PWD in 2010 at 26,000.
Answer: CAR, 26,000

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How many regions had a proportion of PWD higher than the national figure in 2010?
Answer: 10

Enumerate the ten regions which had a proportion of PWD higher than the national figure in 2010.
Answer: VI, IV-B, V, VIII, II, I, CAR, XI, VII, XIII

In terms of sex characteristic, males accounted for _____ while females comprised _____ PWD in
2010.
Answer: 50.9%, 49.1%

What is the Sex Ratio of PWD in 2010?

Answer: 104:100

What is the Sex Ratio of PWD in the age group 0-14 years in 2010?
Answer: 121:100

What is the Sex Ratio of PWD in the age group 65 years and over in 2010?
Answer: 70:100

What is the percentage of aged 0 to 14 years, aged 15 to 64, aged 65 years and over PWD in 2010?
Answer: 18.9%, 59%, 22.1%

How many was aged 0 to 14, 15 to 64 and 65 years and over for every 5 PWD in 2010?
Answer: 1, 3, 1

What age group comprised the largest among the household with PWD in 2010?
Answer: Children aged 10-14 years

What is the percentage of children aged 10-14 years PWD in 2010?

Answer: 7.2%

What is the percentage of aged 15-19 years PWD in 2010?

Answer: 6.9%

What is the percentage of children aged 5-9 years PWD in 2010?

Answer: 6.7%

What is the percentage of aged 50-54 years PWD in 2010?

Answer: 6.6%

What is the total fertility rate (TFR) of the Philippines in 2013?

Answer: 3
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A Filipino woman is expected to have _____) children within her reproductive or childbearing years
based on 2013 NDHS.
Answer: 3

NDHS 2013 indicates that the level of total fertility rate in the country is at a _____ trend, from 1973
to 2013.
Answer: downward

What is the total fertility rate (TFR) of the Philippines in 1973?

Answer: 6

What is the projected TFR in 2030-2035?

Answer: 2.19

It is the level of fertility required to ensure that the population replaces itself in size in succeeding
generations.
Answer: Replacement Fertility

What is the projected TFR in 2015-2020?

Answer: 2.77

What is the projected TFR in 2020-2025?

Answer: 2.56

What is the projected TFR in 2025-2030?

Answer: 2.37

What is the projected TFR in 2035-2040?

Answer: 2.02

What is the projected TFR in 2040-2045?

Answer: 1.86

What region has the highest fertility rate in 2013?

Answer: ARMM

What is the TFR of ARMM in 2013?

Answer: 4.2

Enumerate the regions that have fertility level higher than the national level in 2013.
Answer: ARMM, V, VI, IV-B, XIII, VIII, IX, X, II, VII, XII

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What region has the lowest fertility rate in 2013?
Answer: NCR

What is the TFR of NCR in 2013?

Answer: 2.3

What is the Total Wanted Fertility Rate in 2013?

Answer: 2.2

What is the EXACT Contraception Prevalence Rate (Modern Method) in 2013?

Answer: 37.6

What is the EXACT Unmet Need for Family Planning in 2013?

Answer: 17.5

By background characteristics, NDHS 2013 shows that Filipino women have _____ more child than
what was intended.
Answer: 1

_____ and _____ women continue to have the highest unintended births in 2013.
Answer: Poor, uneducated

The high fertility level especially among poor women in 2013 is mainly because of the _________ to
family planning commodities.
Answer: low level of access

Women belonging to lowest wealth quintile have only _____ modern contraceptive prevalence rate
and a high _____ unmet need for family planning.
Answer: 33%, 21.3%

Only _____ of women without education are using modern family planning methods. A high _____
have expressed unmet need for family planning.
Answer: 16.1%, 23.5%

Women belonging to lowest wealth quintile have the highest total wanted fertility rate in 2013. True
or False?
Answer: True

Women belonging to highest wealth quintile have the highest total wanted fertility rate in 2013.
True or False?
Answer: False. Lowest wealth, highest TWFR

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Women belonging to highest wealth quintile have the lowest total wanted fertility rate in 2013. True
or False?
Answer: True

Women belonging to lowest wealth quintile have the lowest total wanted fertility rate in 2013. True
or False?
Answer: False. Lowest wealth, highest TWFR

Women belonging to lowest wealth quintile have the highest TFR in 2013. True or False?
Answer: True

Women belonging to lowest wealth quintile have the lowest TFR in 2013. True or False?
Answer: False. Lowest wealth, highest TFR

Women belonging to highest wealth quintile have the lowest TFR in 2013. True or False?
Answer: True

Women belonging to highest wealth quintile have the highest TFR in 2013. True or False?
Answer: False. Highest wealth, lowest TFR

Women belonging to lowest wealth quintile have the highest level of unmet need for FP in 2013.
True or False?
Answer: True

Women belonging to highest wealth quintile have the highest level of unmet need for FP in 2013.
True or False?
Answer: False. Lowest wealth, highest unmet need.

Women with no education have the highest level of unmet need for FP in 2013. True or False?
Answer: True

Women with no education have the lowest level of unmet need for FP in 2013. True or False?
Answer: False. No education have the highest.

Births in the older age groups are decreasing from 1998 to 2013. True or False?
Answer: True

Births in the older age groups are increasing from 1998 to 2013. True or False?
Answer: False. Decreasing.

Births among women belonging to age group 15-19 years are increasing from 1998 to 2013. True or
False?
Answer: True
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Births among women belonging to age group 15-19 years are decreasing from 1998 to 2013. True
or False?
Answer: False. Increasing.

Births among women belonging to age group 15-19 years are _____ from 1998 to 2013.
Answer: increasing

Births in the older age groups are _____ from 1998 to 2013.
Answer: decreasing

What is percentage of adolescents aged 15-19 who have begun childbearing in 2002 and 2013?
Answer: 6.3%, 13.6%

Which Age Group has the highest Fertility Rate with _____ births based on NDHS 2013?
Answer: 20-24, 148

Which Age Group has the lowest Fertility Rate with _____births based on NDHS 2013?
Answer: 45-49, 7

What is the Fertility Rate of Ages 25-29 based on NDHS 2013?

Answer: 147

What is the Fertility Rate of Ages 15-19 based on NDHS 2013?

Answer: 57

What is the Fertility Rate of Ages 30-34 based on NDHS 2013?

Answer: 127

What is the Fertility Rate of Ages 35-39 based on NDHS 2013?

Answer: 84

What is the Fertility Rate of Ages 40-44 based on NDHS 2013?

Answer: 37

What is the percentage of females 15-19 who are mothers based in 2002 and 2013?
Answer: 4.4%, 11%

What is the percentage of females 15-19 who are pregnant with 1st child in 2002 and 2013?
Answer: 1.9%, 2.6%

What is the percentage of male adolescents 15-19 who have engaged in pre-marital sex in 2013?
Answer: 35.5%
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What is the percentage of female adolescents 15-19 who have engaged in pre-marital sex in 2013?
Answer: 28.7%

What is the percentage of both sexes’ adolescents 15-19 who have engaged in pre-marital sex in
2013?
Answer: 32%

The concentration of Population increase in mega regions of _____, _____, and _____ indicates the
increasing mobility of Filipinos particularly to urban areas.
Answer: Metro Manila, IV, III

The estimated number of Filipino workers reported by the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (as of
December 2013) or the Total Stock Estimates of Overseas Filipino (World Total) in 2013 was _____.
Answer: 10,238,614

The Filipino Filipinos Overseas Workers were divided as _____, _____, and _____.
Answer: Permanent, Temporary, Irregular

What is the Stock Estimates of Overseas Filipino (World Total) in 2013 for Permanent, Temporary
and Irregular?
Answer: 4,869,766, 4,207,018, 1,161,830

What is the percentage of the Stock Estimates of Overseas Filipino (World Total) in 2013 for
Permanent, Temporary and Irregular?
Answer: 48%, 41%, 11%

In terms of gender differences, Surveys on Overseas Filipinos by the Philippine Statistical Authority
reveal an increasing number of _____ OFWs for the last two (2) years.
Answer: female

What is the distribution in number of both sexes, male and female OFW in thousands in 2015?
Answer: 2,447, 1,197, 1,250

What is the distribution in percent of male and female OFW in 2015?

Answer: 48.91%, 51.08%

_____ is crucial in development as it has a close interrelationship with development processes and
outcomes.
Answer: Population

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It has been noted in the development literature and widely accepted by analysts as early as the 1960s
through the 1980s that _____ population growth was more likely to _____ than promote economic
development.
Answer: rapid, impede

What was the GDP in Q3 and Q2 of 2016 and Q3 of 2015?

Answer: 7.1%, 7%, 6.2%

What was the per capita GDP in Q3 of 2016 and Q3 of 2015?

Answer: 5.3%, 4.4%

What was the projected population in the third quarter of 2016?

Answer: 103.5 million

What was the GDP in 2016 and 2015?

Answer: 6.3%, 6.4%

The GDP from 2015 to 2016 _____.

Answer: decreased

What was the growth rate of per capital GDP in 2016 and 2015?
Answer: 4.5%, 1.7%

The growth rate of per capital GDP from 2015 to 2016 _____.
Answer: increased

The Labor Force Participation Rate, Employment and Unemployment Rates for both sexes for the
period 2011 to 2015 had minimal increase. True or False?
Answer: True

The Labor Force Participation Rate, Employment and Unemployment Rates for both sexes for the
period 2011 to 2015 had minimal decrease. True or False?
Answer: False. Increase.

What is the average annual GDP in 2003-2012?

Answer: 5.2%

What is the job growth rate from 2006-2012?

Answer: 2.4%

What is Labor Force Participation Rate for both sexes, male and female in 2015?
Answer: 63.7, 77.3, 50.1

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What is Employment Rate for both sexes, male and female in 2015?
Answer: 93.7, 93.4, 94.2

What is Unemployment Rate for both sexes, male and female in 2015?
Answer: 6.3, 6.6, 5.8

What was the employment elasticity in 2015?

Answer: 0.46

The contribution of salary and wage workers to employment growth has been _____ since 2010.
Answer: declining

They are known as without any paid employees.

Answer: self-employed

The contribution of salary and wage workers to employment growth has been declining since 2010.
True or False?
Answer: True

The contribution of salary and wage workers to employment growth has been increasing since 2010.
True or False?
Answer: False. Declining.

In 2012-2013, self-employed and unpaid family workers contributed negatively to job growth. True
or False?
Answer: True

In 2012-2013, self-employed and unpaid family workers contributed positively to job growth. True
or False?
Answer: False. Negatively.

Self-employed and unpaid family workers are both regarded as unsteady or “_____" employment by
International Labor Organization (ILO) terminology.
Answer: vulnerable

Research states that, “a larger labor force may not be good for unemployment. True or False?
Answer: True

Research states that, “a smaller labor force may not be good for unemployment. True or False?
Answer: False. Larger.

What does FIES stand for?

Answer: Family Income and Expenditure Survey
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Based on the analysis of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey data from 1985 to 2009, the
_____ the number of children, the _____ the likelihood of a family falling into poverty.
Answer: larger, higher

The larger the number of children, the higher the likelihood of a family falling into poverty. True or
False?
Answer: True

The smaller the number of children, the higher the likelihood of a family falling into poverty. True or
False?
Answer: False. Largest number.

What was DepEd’s PDP Target for Net Enrolment Rate in Elementary and Secondary for 2016?
Answer: 99%, 71%

What was the Net Enrolment Rate in Elementary and Secondary in 2015?
Answer: 92.5%, 62.8%

As population grows, demand for food increases. True or False?

Answer: True

As population grows, demand for food decreases. True or False?

Answer: False. Decreases.

Population affects food security and climate change as demonstrated by research. This is evident “as
population grows, demand for food _____.
Answer: increases

As a result of growing population, agricultural production would be _____ to meet the growing food
requirements. However, intensive use of fertilizer, pesticides, and other chemicals to augment
agricultural production _____ land and water.
Answer: intensified, degrades

Rapid growth of population might result in food _____ especially among poor families in urban areas.
Answer: insecurity

What does DES stand for?

Answer: Dietary Energy Supply

The Philippine Development Plan for 2017-2022 (Chapter _____) stated that growth in population
will continue to pose pressure on the use of natural resources to respond to increases in the demand
for agricultural products.
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Answer: 8

What does FSI stand for?

Answer: Food Security Index

What are the 4 pillars of Food Security?

Answer: Availability, Access, Utilization, Stability

_____ is a threat to the four pillars of food security.

Answer: Climate change

What will be the percentage increase of those who will be in underfed and undernourished
population all over the world in the middle of this century?
Answer: 20%

All major crops are speculated to be negatively affected by climate change. True or False?
Answer: True.

All major crops are speculated to be positively affected by climate change. True or False?
Answer: False. Negatively.

Crop production and distribution systems, livelihood and economics, and health-rooted concerns are
all subject to _____ in light of the current and imminent pressures applied by the climate situation.
Answer: worsen

What is the overall goal of the PPMP to address the key population issues in the country?
Answer: Matatag, Maginhawa, at Planadong Pamilyang Pilipino

Enumerate the targets of PPMP by 2022. No. 1

Answer: To enable couples and individuals to have their desired number, timing, and spacing of
children within the demands of responsible parenthood and informed choice.

Enumerate the targets of PPMP by 2022. No. 2

Answer: To enable adolescents to prevent early and repeat pregnancies.

Enumerate the targets of PPMP by 2022. No. 3

Answer: To enable national, sectoral, and local government agencies to effectively integrate
population variables and dynamics in developing people-centered development interventions.

Enumerate the Specific Objectives of PPMP for its target: “To enable couples and individuals to have
their desired number, timing, and spacing of children within the demands of responsible parenthood
and informed choice” by 2022. No. 1
Answer: To attain and sustain zero unmet need for modern family planning
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Enumerate the Specific Objectives of PPMP for its target: “To enable couples and individuals to have
their desired number, timing, and spacing of children within the demands of responsible parenthood
and informed choice” by 2022. No. 2
Answer: To increase modern contraceptive use at 65% level

Enumerate the Specific Objectives of PPMP for its target: “To enable couples and individuals to have
their desired number, timing, and spacing of children within the demands of responsible parenthood
and informed choice” by 2022. No. 3
Answer: To achieve the same level of actual and desired fertility especially among socio-
economically poor women (eliminate unintended pregnancies)

Enumerate the Specific Objectives of PPMP for its target: “To enable adolescents to prevent early
and repeat pregnancies” by 2022. No. 1
Answer: Reduce by half the proportion of adolescents aged 15-19 who have begun
childbearing

Enumerate the Specific Objectives of PPMP for its target: “To enable adolescents to prevent early
and repeat pregnancies” by 2022. No. 2
Answer: Reduce by half the number of pregnancies among adolescents aged 10-14

Enumerate the Specific Objectives of PPMP for its target: “To enable adolescents to prevent early
and repeat pregnancies” by 2022. No. 3
Answer: Reduce by half the proportion of repeat pregnancies among adolescents who have
begun childbearing

Enumerate the Specific Objectives of PPMP for its target: “To enable national, sectoral, and local
government agencies to effectively integrate population variables and dynamics in developing
people-centered development interventions” by 2022. No. 1
Answer: To enable local government units in establishing and effectively using demographic
and socio-economic database for plan or program development

Enumerate the Specific Objectives of PPMP for its target: “To enable national, sectoral, and local
government agencies to effectively integrate population variables and dynamics in developing
people-centered development interventions” by 2022. No. 2
Answer: To enable all LGUs in developing and implementing interventions consciously
addressing population issues, as they relate to development concerns in their locality

Enumerate the Specific Objectives of PPMP for its target: “To enable national, sectoral, and local
government agencies to effectively integrate population variables and dynamics in developing
people-centered development interventions” by 2022. No. 3
Answer: To enable sectoral development agencies to use demographic data in projecting
population needs through their mandated programs
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What is the percentage of the desired Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) for modern methods of
PPMP in 2022?
Answer: 65%

What is the Baseline Data for contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) for modern methods based on
2013 NDHS?
Answer: 38%

What is the percentage of the desired unmet need for modern FP of PPMP in 2022?
Answer: 0

What is the Baseline Data for unmet need for FP based on 2013 NDHS?
Answer: 18%

What is the Baseline Data for unmet need using traditional method based on 2013 NDHS?
Answer: 17%

The PPMP’s objective under the low fertility assumption is for the _____ to remain as the most
preferred method.
Answer: pills

What is the percentage of the desired CPR for Pill Method of PPMP in 2022?
Answer: 19.5%

What is the percentage of the desired CPR for Female Sterilization Method of PPMP in 2022?
Answer: 16.3%

What is the percentage of the desired CPR for IUD Method of PPMP in 2022?
Answer: 9.6%

What is the percentage of the desired CPR for Implant (PSI) Method of PPMP in 2022?
Answer: 9.1%

What is the percentage of the desired CPR for Injectable Method of PPMP in 2022?
Answer: 6.5%

What is the percentage of the desired CPR for Modern NFP Method of PPMP in 2022?
Answer: 1.95%

What is the percentage of the desired CPR for Condom Method of PPMP in 2022?
Answer: 1.3%

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What is the percentage of the desired CPR for Male Sterilization Method of PPMP in 2022?
Answer: 0.65%

What is the percentage of the desired CPR for Traditional Method of PPMP in 2022?
Answer: 0%

What is the Baseline Data for Pill Method based on 2013 NDHS?
Answer: 19.1%

What is the Baseline Data for Traditional Method based on 2013 NDHS?
Answer: 17.5%

What is the Baseline Data for Female Sterilization Method based on 2013 NDHS?
Answer: 8.5%

What is the Baseline Data for Injectable Method based on 2013 NDHS?
Answer: 3.7%

What is the Baseline Data for IUD Method based on 2013 NDHS?
Answer: 3.5%

What is the Baseline Data for Male Condom Method based on 2013 NDHS?
Answer: 1.9%

What is the Baseline Data for Modern NFP Method based on 2013 NDHS?
Answer: 0.6%

What is the Baseline Data for Male Sterilization Method based on 2013 NDHS?
Answer: 0.1%

What is PPMP’s objective for TFR in 2022?

Answer: 2.1

What is Philippine’s PGR for the period 2000 – 2010?

Answer: 1.9

What is PPMP’s objective for PGR in 2022?

Answer: 1.04

It is expected that Filipino women will be able to achieve their desired fertility level of _____ children
by 2022.
Answer: 2.1

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What is the replacement fertility level that has to be sustained through the years?
Answer: 2.1

What are the main program components of PPMP to address the key population issues in the country
and achieve the desired demographic scenario and objectives?
Answer: Population and Development (POPDEV) Integration, Responsible Parenthood and
Family Planning (RPFP), Adolescent Health and Development (AHD)

The following are PPMP’s Strategic Framework under _____.

1. Full implementation of RPRH Law
2. Improving access and availability of FP supplies and services
3. Intensifying and linking demand generation to access and delivery of FP information and
services
4. Advocacy for institutionalizing RPFP programs at the local level
5. Maintaining data and knowledge base
6. Capacity building for health and population workers
7. Engaging CSOs and private sector
Answer: Responsible Parenthood and Family Planning

The following are PPMP’s Strategic Framework under _____.

1. Intensifying school and community-based communication strategies
2. Establishing and mobilizing ISDN for AHD
3. Advocacy for institutionalizing AHD programs at the local level
4. Maintaining data and knowledge base
5. Capacity building for adolescents, parents, teachers and adults
6. Engaging CSOs and private sector
Answer: Adolescent Health and Development

The following are PPMP’s Strategic Framework under _____.

1. Provision of technical assistance to sectoral agencies and LGUs in establishing and using
POPDEV data and information in formulating development plan and programs
2. Strengthening local population structures / offices
3. Continuing research on POPDEV interrelationships
4. Addressing specific concerns of special population groups
Answer: Population and Development Integration

It is the main program of PPMP that aims to integrate population dynamics and variables in
development initiatives such as policy, plan, and program formulation.
Answer: Population and Development (POPDEV) Integration

The following are the priority strategies that will be pursued under _____.

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 1. Establish, analyze, and disseminate demographic and socio-economic data at the
national, regional, and local levels as input to development planning and policy
development;
2. Pursue strategic inter-agency and inter-sectoral initiatives to take advantage of the
opportunity of demographic dividend especially in highly urbanized areas;
3. Build awareness, appreciation, and skills of key decision-makers, planners, and the
public on considering population factors in development initiatives;
4. Integrate population variables and dynamics in sectoral development strategies
particularly in health and nutrition, education, employment, agriculture, environment,
climate change, food security, and other sectors in which population is a critical factor;
5. Promote initiatives on Population, Health, Employment, and Environment (PHEE) and
other inter-sectoral and integrative strategies at the regional and local levels that
promote collaboration among key stakeholders in addressing population and
development issues;
6. Promote Population and Development Education (POPDEVED) in the school curriculum;
7. Build leadership and management capacities particularly at the local level for
developing and implementing POPDEV-related initiatives;
8. Establish and integrate database on internal migration as critical input in interlinked
urban-rural development and provision of technical assistance to urban and urbanizing
areas in efficiently managing urbanization; and
9. Continuously improve the data and knowledge base on the inter-linkages of population
and development through research and studies.
Answer: Population and Development (POPDEV) Integration

Give examples of special group of population.

Answer: older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous people

The following are the key population management-related interventions for the _____.
1. Support the establishment/enhancement and utilization of demographic database on
older persons, persons with disabilities, and indigenous people through periodic
registration or enumeration/profiling system at the local level;
2. Conduct further research and analysis of the needs and other important information
about these special segments of population to inform relevant plan and policy
development initiatives;
3. Advocate to national and subnational agencies the integration of the needs of these
special groups of population in sectoral development programs; and
4. Improve access of these special groups of population to appropriate and responsive
reproductive health information and services including enhancement of facilities to
make it more responsive to their physical needs and circumstances.
Answer: Special group of population

It is the main program of PPMP that specifically aims to attain zero unmet need for modern family
planning through increase access to FP information and services.
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Answer: Responsible Parenthood and Family Planning (RPFP)

The following are the priority strategies that will be pursued under _____.
1. Fully promote and implement the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health
(RPRH) Law particularly at the local level through increased appreciation and
accountability of local chief executives and program managers of the implementation
of the said Law;
2. Intensify demand generation activities especially among poor women and families at
the community level through the conduct of RPFP sessions and other interpersonal
communication strategies that are linked with FP service provision;
3. Strengthen the Pre-Marriage Counseling (PMC) Program at the local level to prepare
would-be-couples for responsible parenthood including family planning;
4. Conduct a nationwide communication campaign to promote responsible parenthood
and family planning for both modern artificial and natural family planning methods
using multimedia platforms;
5. Improve access to and delivery of FP services especially in public health facilities through
sustainable availability of contraceptive commodities and quality service provision at
the local level;
6. Promote contraceptive self-reliance among LGUs to fill-in the gaps on nationally
procured contraceptives and to ensure universal access to FP services in their localities;
7. Continuously build the capacities of service providers for the delivery of quality FP
services;
8. Engage civil society organizations and the private sector in demand generation and
service delivery for modern family planning;
9. Promote movement for increased men’s involvement in responsible parenthood and
family planning through male-participated communication and advocacy initiatives;
10. Improve health facilities and service delivery mechanisms to enhance access of persons
with disabilities to FP information and services;
11. Establish and operationalize the integrated Service Delivery Network for maternal
health and family planning;
12. Improve service delivery mechanisms for modern FP through efficient and accessible
database on unmet need for modern FP (RPFP Online Reporting System);
13. Capacitate and mobilize local population structures to coordinate demand generation
strategies that are linked to service delivery;
14. Capacitate community volunteers for demand generation and referral services;
15. Ensure continuing improvement of public health facilities for efficient delivery of quality
FP information and services;
16. Institute the provision of RPFP information and services in the workplace both in the
public and private sectors; and
17. Establish efficient logistic management and distribution system for FP commodities.
Answer: Responsible Parenthood and Family Planning (RPFP)

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It is the main program of PPMP that aims to significantly reduce adolescent pregnancies through
responsible sexuality and effective life skills among young people.
Answer: Adolescent Health and Development (AHD)

The following are the priority strategies that will be pursued under _____.
1. Advocate and support the implementation of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
standards in schools including alternative learning systems and modalities and in
communities to reach out to out-of-school adolescents with special needs (e.g. Persons
with Disabilities (PWDs) and Indigenous People (IPs) and at risk or vulnerable groups (i.e.
Children in Conflict with the Law (CICL), already living in or living in disaster camps,
conflict areas, etc.) through interactive Communication methodologies (e.g. Youth-for-
Youth Initiative (U4U), Sexually Healthy and Personally Effective Adolescents (SHAPE)
Module, etc.);
2. Advocate for mobilization of an effective information and service delivery network
(ISDN) or other inter-agency collaborative structures (e.g. local youth development
council, child protection councils, etc.) to ensure harmonized and well-collaborated
planning, coordination, funding, implementation, and monitoring of AHD-related and
outcome-based interventions across levels;
3. Establish and operationalize school-based or community-based teen centers;
4. Capacitate parents, teachers, youth leaders, and other significant adult groups to
effectively guide and partner with adolescents in dealing with their sexual and
reproductive health concerns;
5. Capacitate adolescents with leadership skills as peer educators to effectively and
properly guide their peers in making responsible and informed decisions in relation to
their sexuality and making appropriate referrals to responsible adults;
6. Optimize new information and communication technologies (e.g. e-learning materials,
interactive websites, etc.) to reach out to adolescents, particularly those living in
Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (GIDA), conflict areas, disaster camps,
etc.);
7. Enable LGUs through the Sanggunian Kabataan (SK) to design and implement
adolescent-led programs and interventions for integrated adolescent health and
development through proactive participation in decision-making exercises;
8. Review regulatory measures to minimize unguided access of adolescents to
pornographic materials and come up with research and other action agenda to minimize
if not totally eliminate such;
9. Holistically address other socio-economic, non-behavioral, and institutional
determinants of teenage pregnancy;
10. Engage Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and the private sector in promoting
adolescent health and development including positive view on sexuality, and improving
access of adolescents to appropriate reproductive health services;
11. Advocate social protection interventions for teenage parents to enable them to prevent
repeat pregnancies and continue their education up to completion or pursue economic
activities within an enabling social support system.
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Answer: Adolescent Health and Development (AHD)

It serves as the central policymaking, planning, coordinating, and monitoring agency of the Philippine
Population Management Program (PPMP).
Answer: Commission on Population (POPCOM)

What is the legal basis of making POPCOM as the central policymaking, planning, coordinating, and
monitoring agency of the Philippine Population Management Program (PPMP)?
Answer: PD 79

Enumerate the roles of POPCOM.

Answer: Population Policy and Plan Development, Advocacy and Communication, Capacity
Building, Data and Knowledge Management

The following are the objectives of the _____.

1. Ensure the health and well-being of every Filipinos to contribute in developing quality
human resource.
2. Take the lead in accelerating the implementation of the RPRH Law in collaboration with
the local government units and partner agencies and perform its other mandated
functions under the said Law.
3. Collaborate with POPCOM in their complementary roles and functions as specified in
POPCOM Board Resolution No. 1, series of 2016 for the implementation of the National
Family Planning Program as a health and Population management intervention.
Answer: Department of Health (DOH)

The following are the objectives of _____.

1. Incorporate the population issues and population management goals, objectives, and
strategies in the Philippine Development Plan and in other economic development
agenda.
2. Integrate POPDEV dimensions in planning guidelines at the national and provincial levels.
3. Integrate population management concerns in the implementation and monitoring of
the Sustainable Development Goals, and other Philippine commitments in international
conferences and agreements.
4. Link and collaborate with POPCOM in national and sectoral development projects where
population factors are critical components.
5. Include population management concerns in the Philippine Investment Program and
other bilateral and multilateral development assistance and support.
6. Assist POPCOM in mobilizing resources for population management through
prospective Official Development Assistance and other international funding assistance
for the Philippines.
Answer: National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)

The following are the objectives of the _____.

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 1. Provide quality education for all Filipinos to contribute to the formation of quality
human resource and towards the realization of demographic dividend.
2. Promote and integrate comprehensive sexuality education in the school curriculum and
alternative system as mandated by the RPRH Law.
3. Pursue, in collaboration with DOH, POPCOM, LGUs, CSOs, and other relevant partners,
the establishment and operationalization of Teen Centers or similar structures that
ensures the availability and access of adolescents to reproductive health information
and services.
4. Strengthen the Population Education (PopEd) Program in high school and other
activities that promote knowledge on RH and POPDEV.
5. Promote skills and cognitive development among adolescents to enable them to
address ASRH issues.
6. Ensure the development of fundamental values and life skills needed for adolescents to
promote and observe healthy and positive sexual and reproductive health attitudes and
behaviors.
7. Provide opportunities for government agencies, and other stakeholders through
partnership to promote appropriate information on ASRH and other related topics
through symposia and other activities (e.g., Poster-making, Population Quiz, and others).
Answer: Department of Education

The following are the objectives of _____.

1. Integrate the promotion and access to information and services on responsible
parenthood, reproductive health, and family planning in national poverty reduction
programs and strategies (i.e. Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program)
2. Integrate adolescent sexual and reproductive health concerns in social welfare
programs for adolescents and youth particularly those in disadvantaged and special
circumstances;
3. Integrate population issues, objectives, and strategies in social development plans and
programs at the national and local levels.
4. Strengthen the database on poor households and share with relevant agencies for
purposes of targeting particularly for population management strategies (e.g. meeting
the unmet need for modern family planning of poor women).
5. Continue to provide services and monitor interventions for the prevention and
management of violence against women including those related to reproductive health.
6. Mobilize social welfare workers and officers at the local level to collaborate with health
and population workers in improving access of poor and underserved families to
reproductive health information and services.
Answer: Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)

The following are the objectives of _____.

1. Continue to pursue agricultural productivity to improve the economic conditions of
agricultural human resource and their household to enable them to access necessary
reproductive health information and services.
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 2. Partner with POPCOM or population and health offices at the local level in providing
responsible parenthood and reproductive health including family planning information
and services to agricultural workers and their families as part of agricultural and agrarian
reform programs particularly at the community level.
3. Strengthen agricultural land tenure improvement projects to minimize migration and
encroachment to environmentally protected areas.
4. Using reliable population data in projecting and achieving food security and other
agricultural programs at the national and local levels.
Answer: Department of Agriculture (DA) and Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)

The following are the objectives of _____.

1. Monitor and mobilize local government units (LGUs) for the full implementation of the
RPRH Law based on their mandates under the said Law.
2. Integrate demographic data and information in templates and guidelines for the
development of LGUs ecological profile and other database for planning.
3. Ensure that all LGUs are providing population development and family planning services
as mandated by the Local Government Code.
4. Ensure that all barangays have their demographic and household profiles and used in
barangay planning.
5. Advocate with local executives and officers for the provision of resources of population
management initiatives at the local level.
6. Monitor proper and effective utilization of the 5% GAD fund at the local level, which
should include program on reproductive health, especially among the poor women.
7. Enjoin LGUs to strengthen their local population offices by issuing enabling guidelines
on the expected roles, functions, responsibilities and programs of local population
offices and structures in collaboration with POPCOM.
Answer: Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)

The following are the objectives of _____.

1. Monitor and mobilize LGUs for the full implementation of the RPRH Law based on their
mandates under the said Law.
2. Monitor the compliance of companies with 200 employees or more, which are required
to provide clinical services including family planning services under Section 134 of the
Labor Code.
3. Promote the inclusion of family planning services in collective bargaining agreements
and other benefits of employees.
4. Enforce relevant provisions of the Magna Carta of Women (e.g., maternity leave), and
the RPRH Law especially those related to reproductive health.
5. Provide technical assistance in collaboration with POPCOM and DOH to companies for
the provision of RH/FP services and implementation of other RH-related programs in
company and industry-based clinic and health facilities.

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 6. Integration of population management concerns in skills development and employment
programs to improve the quality of the human resource as well as advance human
resource utilization.
7. Advance its employment programs to address the socioeconomic (e.g., lack of income)
conditions of poor women and couples to enable them to fully exercise their
reproductive rights and to optimize the demographic dividend.
Answer: Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)

Below is the objective of the _____.

Support the PPMP through its programs, primarily in relation to the promotion of
entrepreneurship and livelihood programs of women and families to improve their
economic conditions, thus improving their capacity to access RH and family planning
services.
Answer: Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)

The following are the objectives of the _____.

1. Integrate population factors (e.g., population demand and its impact on social
development, people’s mobility and migration, human settlement, and population
density) in the design and planning of infrastructure development at the national as well
as local levels.
2. Integrate population dimensions in the assessment of the impact of infrastructure
facilities to people and communities.
3. Support the construction of infrastructure facilities that can help the couples surmount
infrastructure barriers to reproductive rights like lack of road network in remote areas,
inadequate health facilities, and other infrastructure issues.
4. Provide, in collaboration with POPCOM, responsible parenthood and family planning
information among its laborers or construction workers.
Answer: Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)

Below is the objective of the _____.

Will ensure the integration of gender dimensions in the design, planning, implementation, and
monitoring of population management strategies.
Answer: Philippine Commission on Women (PCW)

Below is the objective of _____.

Shall implement strategies, including those related to the prevention of teenage pregnancies
that empower children, adolescents and youth towards their sustained welfare and
development.
Answer: National Youth Commission (NYC) and Commission on the Welfare of Children (CWC)

The following are the objectives of the _____.

1. Provide technical inputs in the establishment and strengthening of knowledge and
database for population programming and policy development.
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 2. Provide technical assistance in the identification of research agenda and in the design
and conduct of researches on relevant population, RH and FP issues to support related
program and policy development.
3. Design operations research and evaluation studies for population management
programs.
4. Build, in collaboration with POPCOM, the capacities and competencies of the technical
staff of POPCOM and local population offices at all levels for the population
management program at the national, regional and local levels, and also among NGOs
on demographic concepts, measures, analysis, and application.
5. Promote public consciousness and interest in demographic issues and concerns.
6. Provide empirical data for advocacy and public discourses on population and related
issues.
Answer: University of the Philippines Population Institute (UPPI)

The following are the objectives of the _____.

1. Collaborate and partner with the LGUs, POPCOM, DOH, and other relevant government
agencies in the implementation of the RPRH Law particularly through demand
generation and service delivery for modern family planning.
2. Engage in partnership with the LGUs, POPCOM, DepEd, DOH, and other relevant
government agencies in promoting comprehensive reproductive health education
among adolescents particularly at the community level.
3. Support other strategies of the population management in the country especially at the
community level.
Answer: Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)

Below is the objective of the _____.

Shall provide technical and financial assistance to the government in addressing important
population-related issues as they impact on different development concerns in the country.
Answer: Development Partners

Filipinos aspirations of Matatag, Maginhawa at Panatag na Buhay para sa Lahat. In consonance with
this this agenda, the Philippine Population Management enables families to have their desired
number and spacing of children within the demands of responsible parenthood and principles of
informed choice. Anchored towards the direction of the national development, the Philippine
Population Management Program (PPMP) within the Duterte Administration is aimed at building and
nurturing “Matatag, Maginhawa, at _____.”
Answer: Planadong Pamilyang Pilipino

Of the 17 regions of the Philippines, which region has the lowest fertility? This is also the only region
which is 100% urban.
Answer: NCR

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The relationship between education and fertility has been well established in many studies. The
table below shows the educational level of women in the Philippines and their actual and desired
number of children on average. Which among the following is the correct interpretation of the table
below?

a. The higher the education, the lower is the fertility.

b. College educated desire fewer children than the lower educated.
c. Regardless of education, women in the Philippines want fewer children in what they
actually have.
d. A, B and C are all correct.
e. Only A and B are correct.
Answer: D.

The Total Fertility Rate in the Philippines has been declining although very slowly in the past two
decades. Among teenagers those in ages 15-19 however, fertility has been increasing since 1998. Is
this True or False?
Answer: True

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Supply the missing data.

Answer: Maginhawa, Matatag at Planadong Pamilyang Pilipino

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Supply the missing data.

Answer: Rights-Based and Gender-Responsive Principles

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