Filipino domestic traveler decisions on party type and expenditures: an application of selection correction models
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2025-12-30
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This study investigates the discrete-continuous travel choices of Filipino domestic travelers using the selection correction models of Lee (1983) and Dubin and McFadden (1984). Using the socio-demographic and travel-related data in the 2022 Household Survey on Domestic Visitors (HSDV) dataset, we first estimated the travel party decision (i.e., the choice to travel solo or not) for leisure or non-leisure purposes. Conditional on each travel party choice, we then examined the determinants of travelers’ expenditure. The findings suggest that travelers without income (whose travel expenses might be shouldered by others) have higher expenditures than travelers with income (whose expenses might come from their own income). Traveling by land is inversely related to travel expenditures, while overnight trips have the opposite effect. The Dubin-McFadden model yielded more robust results.
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Domestic travel, multinomial logit, selection correction model, travel party type, expenditure