THIS IS HOW IT WORKS: PMI Philippines: Methodology

In the past 3 years, PMI Philippines developed its ability as a reliable and accurate leading economic indicator of the official data that are published every month. It produces results using the same methodologies around the world in which the Philippine Institute for Supply Management became a vehicle.

Using the pattern, PMI Philippines followed a step-wise approach: First, the ASCEND, a research arm of PISM selects the directory of the Top 8, 000 and Top 12, 000 corporations in Philippines. Second, this will be used to identify the top manufacturing, Retail/Wholesale and Services Companies. Third, using the IBM-SPSS, 1,300 panels composed of 600 Manufacturing companies, 300 Retailers and Wholesalers and 400 Service Companies were randomly selected to create the panel of respondents for each respective survey.

On the other hand, PMI Philippines uses data collection methods in conducting the survey such as CATI (Computer Aided Telephone Interviewing), CAWI (Computer Aided Web Interviewing) and Multi- media (a combination of cellular phone, fax and other medium). In present time, researchers are still looking for the best method in making the survey more effective in reaching their target respondents. It works complicated as what we believe but in the long run, you will realize that the only thing that you need to do is to make it reliable, which is far from biases.

To learn more about this: visit our website and discover PMI. www.pmiphilippines.com.

Johnlery C. Rico, Research Assistant
Maria Edrina C. Rebagay, Database Management Assistant