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Item Restricted Schooling and disablity: the Philippine case(2017) Canlas, Jed Dominik ; Roces, Alfonso Gabriel L. ; Mendoza, Maria Nimfa F.In recent years, more awareness regarding persons with disabilities could be seen in the various laws passed addressing this issue; one of these is the Magna Carta for Disabled, which aims to uplift the lives of disabled citizens through social programs such as those concerning education. However, policies and projects ensuring access to education for all disabled people are not without cost. Therefore, this paper would like to justify these actions by proving that having a disability does impede one’s chances of attaining an education. In order to do this, according to similar studies abroad, it is imperative that some common factors be considered when testing the relationship of educational attainment and the presence of disability - age, gender and income. Using the same factors and the Census of Population and Housing 2010 as the data set, an econometric model, suitable to the Philippine setting, is derived which expands disabilities into different categories; these include communication, mobility, visual, hearing and mental disabilities. The results of the regression show that there is a negative relationship between the presence of disabilities and access to education, measured as the probability of one graduating from high school. Specifically, persons with a communication disability are least likely to finish their secondary studies. With these findings, it is recommended that the government take action with regards to citizens with disabilities by promoting the utilization of special education programs.Item Restricted Employment decisions of household heads with non-schooling children with special health care needs(2016-05) Go, Anna Veronika P. ; Toledo, Ma. Beatrice Ramona S. ; Magno, Cielo D.Children and adolescents with disabilities comprise the greater number of persons with disabilities (PWDs) here in our country. With the continuous growth in the number of PWD cases each year, the need to address these problems should be of utmost priority. With this, much attention, care, and time should be given, especially by those who are closest to them. Therefore, it is equally essential to note that although disability affects the individual, attention should be given to its effects on the people around them, particularly their parents. The objective of this paper is to determine the likelihood that the household head would enter the labor force with the presence of a non-schooling child with special healthcare needs in the household. The data used in the study was from the 2013 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey. A logistic model was used to analyze the relationship between the likelihood of a household head to work and various household head and household characteristics. The results of the study indicate that the presence of non-schooling children with special healthcare needs in the household increases the likelihood of the household head to join the labor force. Other factors that affect the household head’s likelihood to work include the greater number of household members currently not attending school and when the household is below poverty threshold, presence of non-schooling children, the household head’s sex being male, the presence of a child working, if the spouse or partner of the male household head is working, the household head’s age, if the household head is at least a high school graduate, if the household head’s location of residence is in an urban area, and if the household has other sources of income.