KAWAL and LANDASKA, Brgy. 28, Caloocan City

KAWAL Community Profile Survey (conducted by PBSP)
(Number of Respondents – 3,748 Individuals/783 Households)

General Profile
The estimated population of KAWAL is 4,498, about 933 households.

The community has an average household size of 4.78. Nearly 59% are not married and 38% are married. 14.3% of the population fall under age bracket 5 years and below, 22.9% fall under 6-14 years old, 21.1% are under 15-24 years old and only 1.6% belong to age bracket 65 years and above.

School attendance of the 6-24 age group account 63.7%. Of these, 61.8% are in elementary level, 29.6% in high school and 8.6% are in post secondary courses. Of the 16% who are not attending school, 35.2% are employed/actively looking for work, 27% cannot afford the school expenses, 16.6% for housekeeping reasons and 10.2% lack the interest for schooling.

There are only 6.1% of the household heads who finished college while 10.1% are college level and about 36.3% are high school graduates while 15.6% are high school level.

Health Profile
48.9% account usual cases of flu/fever, 37.9% for colds/cough, 6.7% for abdominal pain/diarrhea. Only 8.4% visit health institutions, mostly to barangay health centers.

Economic Profile
55.38% are employed or have business. About 44.6% are unemployed including those women who opted to stay at home and are not actively looking for jobs. 30.8% are production workers, 20.7% are service workers, 19.8% in transport services and only 3.1% are professionals. 51.5% account for those underemployed. About 76% are working for private establishments, 15.4% are self-employed, only 2.5% are working for government agencies and only 0.6% in family-operated business. 84.7% are in permanent employment status while 14.7% are in casual employment status.

49.4% of the households have income within the range of 5,000-9,999, 26.1% have income in the 10,000-19,999 range and about 18% have income below 5,000.

Monthly household expenses ranging from 5,000-9,999 which account 54.5% of the households, 15.5% have expenses below 5,000 while 26.8% have expenses ranging 10,000-20,000. Monthly food expenses of the households concentrate in the expenses range of 2,000-5,000 per month which account to 71%.

63.9% of the households are house owners, 18.4% are renting and 17.6% are renting for free. 75.2% of the houses are made of strong materials and only 2% are made of mixed materials.