BARANGAY PROFILE

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The barangay was originally part of Barangay Herrera. The place was named after red big ants called “Amtic” that is found abundantly is the barangay.

The first settles of Amtic were encargados of the hacienda owned by a Chinese businessman in Manila. Original settlers were four families, namely, Broqueza, Bobis, Persia, and Presentacion.

A fiesta is celebrated every 3^rd Sunday of May in honor of their patron saint, San Vicente.

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GEOGRAPHY/TOPOGRAPHY

 Amtic has a total land area of 712.49 hectares (ha) mostly of which is agricultural land. It is classified as a rural barangay and situated in the Mayon cluster of barangays. It is bounded on the East by Barangay Baligang and Tabaco City; on the West by Barangay Tambo; on the North by Tabaco City; and on the South by the Municipality of Guinobatan.

Its climate is variable (wet and dry) generally cold at night because the place is in between two mountains: Mt. Masaraga and Mt. Mayon.

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Demography

According to the 2012 Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS) Survey, the total number of households is 294 with a population of 1,648 where 842 are male and 806 are female. It has an average household size of 6. The number of members according to their age group and sex is the following:

 

Age Year	Sex		Total
	Male	Female
0 to less than 5	103	123	226
5 to less than 10	115	117	232
10 to less than 15	136	126	262
15 to less than 20	110	84	194
20 to less than 25	54	54	108
25 to less than 30	55	51	106
30 to less than 35	42	40	82
35 to less than 40	42	50	92
40 to less than 45	44	38	82
45 to less than 50	28	23	51
50 to less than 55	33	26	59
55 to less than 60	19	24	43
60 to less than 65	24	22	46
65 to less than 70	13	7	20
70 to less than 75	12	8	20
75 to less than 80	3	8	11
80 to less than 85	7	3	10
85 to less than 90	0	2	2
90 to less than 95	2	0	2
Total	842	806	1648

During the survey, the number of members who are 17 years old and above is 842, yet the number of the registered voters is only 701, garnering 83.25% of the actual voters in the barangay.

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Health and Nutrition

There are 25 children who are classified as malnourished in the barangay, 11 of whom are male and 14 are female. The following table shows the nutritional status of children:

Nutritional Status		Number of children 0-5 years old			Nutrition status of children 0-5 years old
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
271	121	150
	Above Normal	2	1	1
	Normal	243	108	135
	Below Normal (moderate)	22	10	12
	Below Normal (severe)	3	1	2

There are 2 children less than 5 years old who died, and there is no incidence of women who died due to pregnancy related-causes death.

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Housing

There are no households in the barangay that lives in makeshift housing or an improvised housing built of waste materials which are usually from burned or condemned structures, that is being used as living quarters at the time of the census. 117 (39.8%) households are informal settlers or where the housing units have been constructed on land that the occupants have no legal claim to, or occupy illegally. Most informal settlements are found in Purok 6 with 60. The table below shows the tenure status in the barangay:

Tenure Status		Magnitude	Proportion
	Owner, owner-like possession of house and lot	128	43.54
	Rent house/room including lot	1	0.34
	Own house, rent lot	0	0.00
	Own house, rent-free lot with consent of owner	43	14.63
Own house, rent-free lot without consent of owner	114	38.78
	Rent-free house and lot with consent of owner	5	1.70
Rent-free house and lot without consent of owner	3	1.02
	Living in a public space with rent	0	0.00
	Living in a public space without rent	0	0.00
	Other tenure status	0	0.00

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Water and Sanitation

30 or 10.2% of households have no access to sanitary toilet facilities. Purok 1 have the most number of households with no access while Purok 4 has no household that have no sanitary toilet facilities. The table below shows the toilet facility in the barangay:

Type of Toilet Facility		Magnitude	Proportion
	Water-sealed flush to sewerage/septic tank-own	214	72.79
	Water-sealed flush to sewerage/septic tank-shared	32	10.88
	Closed pit	18	6.12
	Open pit	1	0.34
	No toilet	29	9.86

Meanwhile, only 5 households from the barangay have no access to safe water. The source of the drinking water can be shown below:

Source of Drinking Water		Magnitude	Proportion
	Own faucet water inside the household	81	27.55
	Own faucet water inside the yard	90	30.61
	Public tap/stand pipe	110	37.42
	Tube well or borehole	0	0.00
	Protected dug well	2	0.68
	Protected spring water	6	2.04
	Unprotected spring water	5	1.70

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Basic Education

In elementary participation, 30 children (20 male and 10 female) who are aged 6-12 years old are not in elementary education. One every 11 children in this age range is not attending elementary school.

In high school participation, a total of 77 children who are aged 13-16 are not in high school. There are more males (42) than females (35) who are not attending high school. Purok 2 have the most members not in high school with 20.

Here is the overall school participation in the barangay:

Purok		Number of children 6-16 years old			Children 6-16 years old not attending school
					Magnitude			Proportion
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
535	280	255	36	22	14	6.73	7.86	5.49
	Purok 01	96	51	45	12	6	6	12.50	11.76	13.33
	Purok 02	110	61	49	6	4	2	5.45	6.56	4.08
	Purok 03	90	56	34	4	2	2	4.44	3.57	5.88
	Purok 04	47	19	28	3	1	2	6.38	5.26	7.14
	Purok 05	82	41	41	7	6	1	8.54	14.63	2.44
	Purok 06	110	52	58	4	3	1	3.64	5.77	1.72

Of the total 1,190 who are aged 10 and above, 12 are illiterate with 7 male and 5 female as shown below:

Purok		Number of persons 10 years old and above			Illiterate persons 10 years old and above
					Magnitude			Proportion
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
1190	624	566	12	7	5	1.01	1.12	0.88
	Purok 01	215	113	102	1	1	0	0.47	0.88	0.00
	Purok 02	254	139	115	4	1	3	1.57	0.72	2.61
	Purok 03	194	105	89	2	2	0	1.03	1.90	0.00
	Purok 04	89	39	50	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
	Purok 05	173	89	54	2	0	2	1.16	0.00	2.38
	Purok 06	265	139	126	3	3	0	1.13	2.16	0.00

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Income and Livelihood

There are 498 members (362 male and 136 female) who are members of the labor force, there are 43 households have reported having members who are unemployed. There are 27 male and 22 female who are considered unemployed.

Of the 294 households, there are 7 households that have experienced food shortage. Purok 3 have the most number that had food shortage with 5. 158 households lie below the poverty threshold, roughly 53.7% of the household in the barangay. Poverty threshold or poverty line is the minimum income deemed adequate in a household. The currently used poverty threshold is: 19,069 (Rural) and 20,315 (Urban). Purok 6 has the most number of households living below the poverty threshold with 41.

87 households or 29.6% live below the food threshold; it refers to the basic food requirements which meet 100% adequacy of the RDA for energy (2000 calories) and 80% adequacy of other nutrients as recommended by the FNRI.  The currently used food threshold is: 13,319 (Rural) and 14,189 (Urban). Most of this household can be found in Purok 1 (25 household).

Here is the type of business/industry and class of worker in the barangay:

Type of business/industry
		Magnitude			Proportion
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
	Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing	232	211	21	51.67	62.99	18.42
	Mining and Quarrying	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
	Manufacturing	5	3	2	1.11	0.90	1.75
	Electricity, Gas, Steam and Air Conditioning Supply	3	3	0	0.67	0.90	0.00
	Water Supply; Sewerage, Waste Management and Remediation Activities	2	1	1	0.45	0.30	0.88
	Construction	40	39	1	8.91	11.64	0.88
	Wholesale and Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles	47	18	29	10.47	5.37	25.44
	Transportation and Storage	13	13	0	2.90	3.88	0.00
	Accommodation and Food Service Activities	1	1	0	0.22	0.30	0.00
	Information and Communication	3	0	3	0.67	0.00	2.63
Financial and Insurance Activities	1	0	1	0.22	0.00	0.88
Real Estate Activities	1	1	0	0.22	0.30	0.00
	Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities	10	4	6	2.23	1.19	5.26
Administrative and Support Service Activities	2	1	1	0.45	0.30	0.88
	Public Administration and Defense; Compulsory Social Security	9	7	2	2.00	2.09	1.75
	Education	6	1	5	1.34	0.30	4.39
	Human Health & Social Work Activities	1	0	1	0.22	0.00	0.88
	Arts, Entertainment and Recreation	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
	Other Service Activities	60	32	28	13.36	9.55	24.56
	Activities of Households as Employers; Undifferentiated Goods-and-Services	22	2	20	4.90	0.60	17.54

Class of worker
		Magnitude			Proportion
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
	Worked for a household	75	50	25	16.70	14.93	21.93
	Worked for a private establishment	102	71	31	22.72	21.19	27.19
	Worked for government/ government corporation	27	14	13	6.01	4.18	11.40
	Self employed without employees	21	7	14	4.68	2.09	12.28
	Employer in own family-operated farm or business	4	2	2	0.89	0.60	1.75
	Worked with pay on own family operated farm or business	17	17	0	3.79	5.07	0.00
	Worked without pay on own family operated farm or business	209	175	34	46.55	52.24	29.82
	Working for government of another country	3	1	2	0.67	0.30	1.75

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Peace and Order

Crime is an act or offense from a public law which makes the offender liable to punishment by the state. It can be categorized as crimes against person and against property. There are 42 persons victimized by a crime in the barangay. The most committed crime is theft with 41 incidences and 1 physical injury.

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Service Institutions and Infrastructure

The barangay has 1 health facility which is the Barangay Health Center. The nearest hospital and drugstore could be found 23 and 2 kilometers from the Barangay Hall respectively. Amtic Covered Court and Barangay Outpost are the 2 service facilities in the barangay. Educational facilities can also be found with 2 Day Care Center, Pre-school, Elementary School, and High School. The nearest college or vocational school can be located 23 kilometers away from the barangay proper.

The public transportation present in the barangay is Jeepney. The road is concrete and asphalt and in good condition, it is maintained by the National Government.

Garbage collection is the most common garbage or waste disposal system in the community. Open dump site and sanitary landfill is 24 kilometers away from the barangay.

The source of electricity in the barangay is provided and maintained by Albay Power and Energy Corporation (APEC).

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Source: CBMS 2012