CHAPTER 3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter includes the research design, respondents of the study, research
locale, research instrument, procedure and statistical treatment of data.
Research Design
This study will use descriptive research design in order to determine the spending
and saving habits of adopted communities of Rogationist College. As defined by
Research and Statistics with Computer (2010), “Descriptive research is valuable in
playing a large part in the development of instruments for the measurement of many
things, i.e., instruments that are employed in all types of descriptive research as in data
gathering instruments like questionnaires, tests, checklist, and rating scale”. It is made
for gathering the current information needed as input to the study.
Respondents of the Study
The respondents of the study will be 100 residents taken from the Ube Jam
Community, one of the adopted communities of Rogationist College. Researchers will
select the residents with the purpose of determining their spending and saving habits and
apply the beneficial results of the study to them towards their financial status
improvement.
Research Locale
The study will be conducted in three adopted communities of Rogationist College
namely: Sitio Birundo, Sitio Tibig, and Ube Jam Community Brgy. Lalaan 2, Silang,
Cavite. The researchers chose this location in order to determine their spending and
saving habits.
Instrumentation
In order to determine the spending and saving habits of adopted communities
namely; Sitio Birundo, Sitio Tibig, and Ube Jam Community, the researchers will use the
adapted questionnaire. This questionnaire will be used to collect data.
This questionnaire is divided into three (3) parts: the first part includes the
demographic profile of the respondents; the second part pertains to the spending habits
wherein there are two (2) sections such as monthly expenses and preference and values.
The first section aims to know monthly expenses of the respondents that includes primary,
secondary, and other expenses. The second section includes the preferred variety of
each primary, secondary, and other expenses. The last part includes saving habits
wherein there are four (4) sections such as engagement in saving, means of saving,
purpose of saving and achievement of purpose.
Procedure
After the approval of the propose study, the researchers will ask the permission of
the Baranggay Chairman of Sitio Birundo, Sitio Tibig, and Ube Jam Community to allow
them for the conduct of the study. The researchers will distribute the questionnaires to
the respondents. The information to be gathered will be tabulated, summarized, and
analyzed to determine the spending and saving habits of the respondents.
Statistical Treatment of Data.
The information to be gathered will be treated statistically through the following:
To the determine the demographic profile of the respondents and the percentage
of correct responses for each question, the researchers utilized the frequency and
percentage given by the formula:
𝑓
𝑃 = ( ) (100)
𝑛
Wherein:
P = percentage equivalent
f = frequency
n = total numbers of respondents
To determine the respondents’ spending and saving habits, the researchers will
mean percentage score given by the formula:
Σ𝐶𝐴
𝑥̅ =( ) (100)
𝑛
Wherein:
𝑥̅ = mean percentage score
CA = number of correct responses
n = number of total questions