Chapter 3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter of the study will show the method used and methodology
of the study. Like the Method Used, Research Environment, Research
Respondents, Research Instrument, Data Gathering Procedure, Scoring
Procedure and Statistical Treatment of the data.
Method Used
A correlational study is a research method that describes and predicts
how variables are naturally related in the real world, without any attempt by the
researcher to alter them or assign causation between them.
Descriptive statistics provide simple summaries about the sample and
about the observations that have been made. Such summaries may be either
quantitative, i.e. summary statistics, or visual, i.e. simple-to-understand graphs.
These summaries may either form the basis of the initial description of the data
as part of a more extensive statistical analysis, or they may be sufficient in and of
themselves for a particular investigation. The percentage summarizes or
describes multiple discrete events. Consider also the grade point average. This
single number describes the general performance of a student across the range
of their course experiences. The use of descriptive and summary statistics has
an extensive history and, indeed, the simple tabulation of populations and of
economic data was the first way the topic of statistics appeared. More recently, a
collection of summarisation techniques has been formulated under the heading
of exploratory data analysis: an example of such a technique is the box plot. In
the business world, descriptive statistics provides a useful summary of many
types of data. For example, investors and brokers may use a historical account of
return behavior by performing empirical and analytical analyses on their
investments in order to make better investing decisions in the future. (William
M.K. 2006)
Research Environment
This study will be conducted at Barangay Tambacan, Iligan City.
Tambacan is one of the 44 barangays of Iligan, a city about 795 kilometres (494
mi) southeast of Manila in the Philippines. It is south of Iligan's central business
district, Barangay Poblacion. Tambacan is bounded by Barangay Poblacion and
Tubod River on the north, Iligan Bay on the west, Barangay Mahayahay and
Tubod River on the east and Barangay Tubod on the south and southwest.
Barangay Tambacan was created on September 5, 1966 by virtue of Resolution
232 series of 1966 which eventually approved as City Ordinance 280. It has a
total land area of about 48.1 hectares (119 acres) and is subdivided into 12
puroks. Its population as determined by the 2015 Census was 17,616. This
represented 5.14% of the total population of Iligan. Accessible from the north
through Barangay Poblacion by the Tambacan Bridge and from the south
through Tubod by the Tambacan Highway, Barangay Tambacan is becoming a
major bypass route from Iligan's main thoroughfares. Fishing is the source of
occupation for most residents not only due to its proximity to the Iligan Bay but
also because Iligan's major dropping point for fish trades from the major fish
ports in Mindanao is located in one of its puroks which is Iligan-LGU's fish
dropping facility called locally as "Bagsakan". The proximity of the fish
marketplace is an advantage for traders residing at the barangay to Iligan's two
major marketplaces which are the Pala-o Supermarket and Iligan's Wet Market,
formerly the Old Public Market. Tambacan has two schools: Tambacan
Elementary School for grades one through six and the Iligan City National High
School (ICNHS) Tambacan Campus, also known as the ICNHS Annex
(Tambacan), which also serves the southern barangays of Iligan. The barangay
is in a low-lying area, and has been affected by flooding in recent years.
Research Respondent
The 50 respondents were purposively selected among residents of
Barangay Tambacan, Iligan City it may selected in different puroks of the said
barangay. And selected Police officer of the Iligan City Police Station 4 for the
assessment of data gathered by the said office.
