V
3
VI
4
VII
3
VIII
3
IX
3
X
3
Region
XI
No. of Women
Interviews
Documented
3
XII
3
XIII
5
CAR
3
NCR
0
Total
53
Documentation and data used
The documentation in NCR showed interviews with four children but no adults. One
interview had been with the victim’s gilfriend who is also the mother of his child. The
girlfriend was only 17 years old at the time of the interview. For the purposes of the report,
and as guided by the definition under RA 7610, she was categorized as a “child”.
On the other hand, an interview with an adult child of an EJK victim (25 years old) was
reported under Children’s Interview. The responses were not tabulated because the data
gathered were incomplete. The said interview seemed to function as a background to the
below-18 children’s interview i.e. to explain the complex family relations and household
arrangements relevant to the narrative. The story, however, included in the report as a case
study on a woman victim of EJK (See Box 1 on the Case of C.).
The written documentation on interviews were submitted in either Filipino or English.
Several CHR-ROs submitted transcripts of interviews in the local language with English
translations. The transcriptions from Regions VII and XI (women) have no translation as
submitted, so this was provided by a third party, who is based in NCR.
The quality of interviews and uneven documentation output from the field data gathering
has implications on how the data were analyzed for the report. Specifically, data from
Region XIII has limited value as data on women’s perception on the War on Drugs because
these were submitted in the form of a single report, summarizing the results of interviews
with all five women. In Region III and V, although two interviews have separate
documentation, it was noted that the content was similar, leading the writer to surmise
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