Chapter 5

Results and Discussion

5.1 Descriptive Statistics of Second Visit Data Variables

Table 2 shows the descriptive statistics of the second visit variables of interests (VI),

TOTEX2 and TOTIN2. This was computed to provide a brief idea on how much a

household spends and earns in a period of time, measure the differences of the statistics

between the two variables and to compare the results with other tests later on. This

descriptive statistics will be also used in comparing the results of imputation classes (IC),

how well the observations are grouped.

Table 2: Descriptive Statistics using the complete data set

The average total spending of a household in the National Capital Region (NCR) is about

Php 102389.80 while the average total earnings amounted to P134119.40, a difference of

more than thirty thousand pesos. Observations from the TOTIN2 are larger and more

spread than the TOTEX2 because of a larger mean and standard deviation respectively.

The dispersion can be also seen by just looking at the minimum at maximum of the two

variables. The range of TOTIN2 which measured more than four million against the

range of TOTEX2 measured one million lower than TOTIN2 can be also a sign of the

extreme variability of the observations.

5.2 Formation of Imputation Classes

Table 3 shows the results of the chi-square test where it was done to determine if the

candidate matching variables (MV) are associated with the VIs. The MV stated in the

methodology must be highly correlated to the variables of interest. The first visit

variables of interest, TOTIN1 and TOTEX1, were grouped into four categories in order to

satisfy the assumptions in the association tests. The first visit VIs were used in as the

variables to be tested for association rather than second visit variables of interest since the

second visit VIs already contained missing data.

The following candidate matching variables that were tested are the provincial area codes

(PROV), recoded education status (CODES1) and recoded total employed household

members (CODEP1). The PROV has four categories, CODES1 has three, and CODEP1

has also four. Originally, CODES1 and CODEP1 have more than what they have now.

Since the original matching variables have numerous categories (i.e. In CODES1 and

CODEP1, there were more than 60 and 7 categories respectively.), the matching variables

were recoded and further categorized into smaller groups.

The categories for CODES1 are as follows:

1 = At most a high school graduate

2 = At most a college graduate and other course that where not specified

3 = Taking Masters and Doctoral Degrees