BARANGAY PROFILE

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Basag was established in 1943 during the Japanese occupation. It is originally a sitio of Barangay Herrera.

The name of the barangay is derived from the word “binasagan”, meaning a broken bamboo made as walling material for a nipa hut. The name was later shortened to “Basag”.

The families of Olmeda, Porteria, Porado, Bayonito, Quiped, and Agus were said to be the early residents of the barangay. The first Teniente del Barrio was Garwin Olmeda.

A fiesta is celebrated every 16^th day of August in honor of their patron saint, San Roque.

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GEOGRAPHY/TOPOGRAPHY

Basag has a total land area of 485.41 hectares (ha). It is situated in the Mayon cluster of barangays. It is bounded on the East and North by Barangay Tambo; on the West by Barangay Nasisi; and on the South by the Barangay Nabonton.

Its climate is variable (wet and dry). The dry season starts from January to May, and the rainy season from June to December.

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Demography

According to the 2012 Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS) Survey, the total number of households is 418 with a population of 2,206 where 1,168 are male and 1,038 are female. It has an average household size of 5. 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	173	125	298
5 to less than 10	160	129	289
10 to less than 15	150	144	294
15 to less than 20	140	125	265
20 to less than 25	109	113	222
25 to less than 30	79	58	137
30 to less than 35	68	60	128
35 to less than 40	59	54	113
40 to less than 45	56	63	119
45 to less than 50	50	43	93
50 to less than 55	43	35	78
55 to less than 60	24	30	54
60 to less than 65	28	25	53
65 to less than 70	10	12	22
70 to less than 75	14	8	22
75 to less than 80	3	9	12
80 to less than 85	1	2	3
85 to less than 90	1	2	3
90 to less than 95	0	1	1
Total	1168	1038	2206

During the survey, the number of members who are 17 years old and above is 1,216, yet the number of the registered voters is only 1,168, garnering 96.05% of the actual voters in the barangay.

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Health and Nutrition

There are 8 children who are classified as malnourished in the barangay, 5 of whom are male and 3 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
		360	210	150
	Above Normal				0	0	0
	Normal				349	203	146
	Below Normal (moderate)				8	5	3
	Below Normal (severe)				0	0	0

There are no incidences that children under 5 years old died and women who died due to pregnancy related-causes death.

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Housing

There are 24 or 5.7% household in the barangay that lives in makeshift housing or an improvised housing built of waste materials which are usually from burned or condemned structures, which are being used as living quarters at the time of the census. Purok 4 has the most number of households with 12. There are no households who are informal settlers or where the housing units have been constructed on land that the occupants have no legal claim to, or occupy illegally. The table below shows the tenure status in the barangay:

Tenure Status		Magnitude	Proportion
	Owner, owner-like possession of house and lot	395	94.50
	Rent house/room including lot	2	0.48
	Own house, rent lot	0	0.00
	Own house, rent-free lot with consent of owner	14	3.35
	Rent-free house and lot with consent of owner	7	1.67
	Rent-free house and lot without consent of owner	0	0.00
	Other tenure status	0	0.00

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Water and Sanitation

177 or 42.3% of households have no access to sanitary toilet facilities. Purok 7 has the most number of households with no access with 56. The table below shows the toilet facility in the barangay:

Type of Toilet Facility		Magnitude	Proportion
	Water-sealed flush to sewerage/septic tank-own	230	55.02
	Water-sealed flush to sewerage/septic tank-shared	8	1.91
	Closed pit	3	0.72
	Open pit	4	0.96
	No toilet	173	41.39

Meanwhile, there are no households from the barangay that 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	290	69.38
	Own faucet water inside the yard	26	6.22
	Public tap/stand pipe	78	18.66
	Protected dug well	2	0.48
	Unprotected dug well	0	0.00
	Protected spring water	22	5.26
	Unprotected spring water	0	0.00
	Bottled/Mineral water	0	0.00
	Others	0	0.00

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Basic Education

In elementary participation, 31 children (16 male and 15 female) who are aged 6-12 years old are not in elementary education. One every 13 children in this age range is not attending elementary school.

In high school participation, a total of 99 children who are aged 13-16 are not in high school. There are more males (63) than females (36) who are not attending high school. Purok 7 has the most members not in high school with 31.

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
		629	334	295	51	31	20	8.11	9.28	6.78
	Purok 01	143	79	64	9	6	3	6.29	7.59	4.69
	Purok 02	81	41	40	8	6	2	9.88	14.63	5.00
	Purok 03	31	16	15	2	1	1	6.45	6.25	6.67
	Purok 04	98	42	56	9	2	7	9.18	4.76	12.50
	Purok 05	88	47	41	6	3	3	6.82	6.38	7.32
	Purok 06	20	13	7	3	3	0	15.00	23.08	0.00
	Purok 07	168	96	72	14	10	4	8.33	10.42	5.56

Of the total 1,619 who are aged 10 and above, 39 are illiterate with 21 male and 18 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
		1619	835	784	39	21	18	2.41	2.52	2.30
	Purok 01	400	210	190	10	7	3	2.50	3.33	1.58
	Purok 02	217	111	106	5	3	2	2.30	2.70	1.89
	Purok 03	92	51	41	4	2	2	4.35	3.92	4.88
	Purok 04	210	109	101	4	2	2	1.90	1.83	1.98
	Purok 05	214	99	115	4	2	2	1.87	2.02	1.74
	Purok 06	75	41	34	2	1	1	2.67	2.44	2.94
	Purok 07	411	214	197	10	4	6	2.43	1.87	3.05

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Income and Livelihood

There are 655 members (539 male and 116 female) who are members of the labor force, there are 8 households have reported having members who are unemployed. There are 5 male and 3 female who are considered unemployed.

Of the 418 households, there are no households that have experienced food shortage. 352 households lie below the poverty threshold, roughly 84.2% 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 7 has the most number of households living below the poverty threshold with 98.

266 households or 63.6% 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 7 (77 households).

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	283	275	8	43.74	51.50	7.08
	Mining and Quarrying	10	9	1	1.55	1.69	0.88
	Manufacturing	14	13	1	2.16	2.43	0.88
	Electricity, Gas, Steam and Air Conditioning Supply	1	0	1	0.15	0.00	0.88
	Water Supply; Sewerage, Waste Management and Remediation Activities	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
	Construction	124	124	0	19.17	23.22	0.00
	Wholesale and Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles	58	22	36	8.96	4.12	31.86
	Transportation and Storage	39	39	0	6.03	7.30	0.00
	Accommodation and Food Service Activities	17	16	1	2.63	3.00	0.88
	Information and Communication	16	10	6	2.47	1.87	5.31
	Financial and Insurance Activities	2	0	2	0.31	0.00	1.77
	Real Estate Activities	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
	Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities	3	3	0	0.46	0.56	0.00
	Administrative and Support Service Activities	3	2	1	0.46	0.37	0.88
	Public Administration and Defense; Compulsory Social Security	14	8	6	2.16	1.50	5.31
	Education	2	0	2	0.31	0.00	1.77
	Human Health & Social Work Activities	6	0	6	0.93	0.00	5.31
	Arts, Entertainment and Recreation	1	0	1	0.15	0.00	0.88
	Other Service Activities	16	11	5	2.47	2.06	4.42
	Activities of Households as Employers; Undifferentiated Goods-and-Services	53	8	45	8.19	1.50	39.82
	Activities of Extra-Territorial Organizations and Bodies	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00

 

Class of worker
		Magnitude			Proportion
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
	Worked for a household	52	8	44	8.04	1.50	38.94
	Worked for a private establishment	294	251	43	45.44	47.00	38.05
	Worked for government/ government corporation	19	6	13	2.94	1.12	11.50
	Self employed without employees	27	16	11	4.17	3.00	9.73
	Employer in own family-operated farm or business	1	1	0	0.15	0.19	0.00
	Worked with pay on own family operated farm or business	12	11	1	1.85	2.06	0.88
	Worked without pay on own family operated farm or business	257	247	10	39.72	46.25	8.85
	Working for government of another country	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00

 

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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 is no person victimized by a crime in the barangay.

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Service Institutions and Infrastructure

The barangay has 2 health facilities which is the Barangay Health Center and Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (BEmONC). The nearest hospital and drugstore could be found 9 kilometers from the Barangay Hall. Basag Covered Court and Barangay Outpost are the 2 service facilities in the barangay. Educational facilities can also be found with two Day Care Center, Pre-School and Elementary School. The nearest college or vocational school can be located 9.5 kilometers away from the barangay proper.

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

Compost pits is the most common garbage or waste disposal system in the community. Open dump site and sanitary landfill is 9 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