BARANGAY PROFILE

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Early part of the 19^th century, the land of Mahaba was covered by thick forest. In the forest there grew big trees, bananas, “kaubyan” trees and wild grasses. There were no highways for automobile.

It was named “mahaba” because of a long road from Ligao proper to brangay Mahaba without any intersection.

Today, the barangay is divided into two: “Mahabang-maigsi (halipot)” meaning short and “Mahabang-mahaba (halaba)” meaning long. Such division came to be because of the disagreement in their feast day.

“Mahabang-mahaba” celebrates the feast day of Señor San Roque every 15^th day of June and “Mahabang-maigsi” celebrates the feast day of San Isidro every 15^th day of August.

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GEOGRAPHY/TOPOGRAPHY

Mahaba has a total land area of 278.43 hectares (ha). 60% of this is agricultural land and 40% is residential land. It is bounded on the East by Barangay Barayong; on the West by the Municipality of Oas; on the North by Barangay Busay; and on the South by Barangay Tinago.

It has a tropical climate. Heavy rainfall occurs during the months of June to November and the dry season is from the month of January to May.

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Demography

According to the 2012 Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS) Survey, the total number of households is 703 with a population of 3,164 where 1,661 are male and 1,503 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	179	164	343
5 to less than 10	200	163	363
10 to less than 15	213	200	413
15 to less than 20	208	167	375
20 to less than 25	139	106	245
25 to less than 30	93	75	168
30 to less than 35	106	100	206
35 to less than 40	90	78	168
40 to less than 45	81	90	171
45 to less than 50	97	82	179
50 to less than 55	65	72	137
55 to less than 60	58	55	113
60 to less than 65	46	47	93
65 to less than 70	36	32	68
70 to less than 75	30	34	64
75 to less than 80	8	15	23
80 to less than 85	10	16	26
85 to less than 90	1	5	6
90 to less than 95	0	2	2
95 to less than 100	1	0	1
Total	1661	1503	3164

During the survey, the number of members who are 17 years old and above is 1,883, yet the number of the registered voters is 1,480, garnering 78.60% of the actual voters in the barangay.

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Health and Nutrition

There are 42 children who are classified as malnourished in the barangay, 25 of whom are male and 17 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
		412	217	196
	Above Normal				1	1	0
	Normal				332	166	166
	Below Normal (moderate)				36	22	14
	Below Normal (severe)				6	3	3

There is 1 incidence that children under 5 years old died and no incidences where a woman died due to pregnancy related-causes death.

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Housing

There are 37 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, which are being used as living quarters at the time of the census. Most of these households can be found in Purok 1 (15 households). There are 4 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. Purok 1 and 4 have the most number of households with no access with 2 each. The table below shows the tenure status in the barangay:

Tenure Status		Magnitude	Proportion
	Owner, owner-like possession of house and lot	611	86.91
	Rent house/room including lot	2	0.28
	Own house, rent-free lot with consent of owner	57	8.11
	Own house, rent-free lot without consent of owner	3	0.43
	Rent-free house and lot with consent of owner	25	3.56
	Living in a public space with rent	0	0.00
	Living in a public space without rent	1	0.14
	Other tenure status	4	0.57

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Water and Sanitation

114 or 16.2% of households have no access to sanitary toilet facilities. Purok 3 has the most number of households with no access with 32. The table below shows the toilet facility in the barangay:

Type of Toilet Facility		Magnitude	Proportion
	Water-sealed flush to sewerage/septic tank-own	503	71.55
	Water-sealed flush to sewerage/septic tank-shared	37	5.26
	Closed pit	46	6.54
	Open pit	48	6.83
	No toilet	66	9.39
	Others	3	0.43

Meanwhile, there are 87 households from the barangay that have no access to safe water. Most of these households can be found in Purok 2 (37 households). The source of the drinking water can be shown below:

Source of Drinking Water		Magnitude	Proportion
	Own faucet water inside the household	130	18.49
	Own faucet water inside the yard	52	7.40
	Public tap/stand pipe	262	37.27
	Tube well/borehole	107	15.22
	Protected dug well	14	1.99
	Unprotected dug well	3	0.43
	Protected spring water	1	0.14
	Unprotected spring water	8	1.14
	River, stream, dam, etc.	5	0.71
	Bottled/mineral water	63	8.96
	Others	58	8.25

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Basic Education

In elementary participation, 40 children (19 male and 21 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 138 children who are aged 13-16 are not in high school. There are more males (86) than females (52) who are not attending high school. Purok 1 has the most members not in high school with 32.

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
		868	456	412	60	43	17	6.91	9.43	4.13
	Purok 01	154	83	71	12	8	4	7.79	9.64	5.63
	Purok 02	133	72	61	8	7	1	6.01	9.72	1.64
	Purok 03	124	71	53	5	4	1	4.03	5.63	1.89
	Purok 04	173	90	83	13	8	5	7.51	8.89	6.02
	Purok 05	108	54	54	12	9	3	11.11	16.67	5.56
	Purok 06	176	86	90	10	7	3	5.68	8.14	3.33

Of the total 2,458 who are aged 10 and above, 30 are illiterate with 14 male and 16 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
		2458	1282	1176	30	14	16	1.22	1.09	1.36
	Purok 01	426	222	204	2	0	2	0.47	0.00	0.98
	Purok 02	446	246	200	1	1	0	0.22	0.41	0.00
	Purok 03	383	209	174	2	1	1	0.52	0.48	0.57
	Purok 04	431	219	212	6	2	4	1.39	0.91	1.89
	Purok 05	332	176	156	14	7	7	4.22	3.98	4.49
	Purok 06	440	210	230	5	3	2	1.14	1.43	0.87

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Income and Livelihood

There are 1,058 members (778 male and 280 female) who are members of the labor force, there are 22 households have reported having members who are unemployed. There are 19 male and 6 female who are considered unemployed.

Of the 703 households, there are 7 households that have experienced food shortage. 384 households lie below the poverty threshold, roughly 54.6% 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 96.

256 households or 36.4% 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 (69 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	445	416	29	43.08	54.81	10.58
	Mining and Quarrying	2	2	0	0.19	0.26	0.00
	Manufacturing	38	34	4	3.68	4.48	1.46
	Electricity, Gas, Steam and Air Conditioning Supply	6	4	2	0.58	0.53	0.73
	Water Supply; Sewerage, Waste Management and Remediation Activities	1	1	0	0.10	0.13	0.00
	Construction	73	72	1	7.07	9.49	0.37
	Wholesale and Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles	98	27	71	9.49	3.56	25.91
	Transportation and Storage	72	71	1	6.97	9.35	0.37
	Accommodation and Food Service Activities	25	15	10	2.42	1.98	3.65
	Information and Communication	11	6	5	1.06	0.79	1.82
	Financial and Insurance Activities	1	0	1	0.10	0.00	0.37
	Real Estate Activities	1	1	0	0.10	0.13	0.00
	Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities	8	6	2	0.77	0.79	0.73
	Administrative and Support Service Activities	8	4	4	0.77	0.53	1.46
	Public Administration and Defense; Compulsory Social Security	47	39	8	4.55	5.14	2.92
	Education	20	9	11	1.94	1.19	4.01
	Human Health & Social Work Activities	20	1	19	1.94	0.13	6.93
	Arts, Entertainment and Recreation	5	4	1	0.48	0.53	0.37
	Other Service Activities	95	50	45	9.20	6.59	16.42
	Activities of Households as Employers; Undifferentiated Goods-and-Services	88	15	73	8.52	1.98	26.64
	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	233	146	87	22.56	19.24	31.75
	Worked for a private establishment	297	215	82	28.75	28.33	29.93
	Worked for government/ government corporation	78	44	34	7.55	5.80	12.41
	Self employed without employees	174	122	52	16.84	16.07	18.98
	Employer in own family-operated farm or business	24	16	8	2.32	2.11	2.92
	Worked with pay on own family operated farm or business	168	162	6	16.26	21.34	2.19
	Worked without pay on own family operated farm or business	78	67	11	7.55	8.83	4.01
	Working for government of another country	12	5	7	1.16	0.66	2.55

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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 5 person victimized by a crime in the barangay. The crimes committed are Physical Injury (4 incidences) and other crimes (1 incidence).

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Service Institutions and Infrastructure

The barangay has 1 health facility which is the Barangay Health Center. The nearest Hospitals and Private Drugstores are 4 kilometers from the barangay. Mahaba Covered Court is the service facility in the barangay. Educational facilities can also be found with 2 Day Care Centers, Pre-School and Elementary School. The nearest High School and College or Vocational School is 4 kilometers from the barangay proper.

The public transportation present in the barangay is Tricycle and Motorcycle. The road is concrete (good condition) and natural/earth surface (fair condition), it is maintained by the Provincial and Barangay Government, respectively.

Compost pits is the most common garbage or waste disposal system in the community. Open dump site and sanitary landfill is 6 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