COMMUNITY-BASED SURVEY. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in the Cordillera region urges the public to cooperate in a community-based monitoring survey (CBMS) to get detailed information about the situation of people at the grassroots level in the region. The result will allow the government and other data users to know who needs help, where they are, and what help is needed. (PNA photo by Liza T. Agoot) BAGUIO CITY - The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has decided to conduct a community-based monitoring survey (CBMS) in 59 fifth- and sixth-class towns in the Cordillera region to allow the government to see the specific situation in their villages and bring assistance and programs to them more easily. "The disaggregated survey will allow us to have an actual, detailed, and more comprehensive data of the people at the grassroots level, not just the regional and provincial, but even at the barangay level," Villafe Alibuyog, PSA-Cordillera director, said during the