Planning is, or aspires to be, a rational act that seeks to reduce the uncertainties of the
future by relying on information, its analysis and interpretation, as the basis for policy and
action. The quality of the plan, therefore, is influenced by the type and nature of information
available for use by planners and decision-makers.
Generating the data that goes into the Socio-economic Profile (SEP) and/or the Ecological
Profile (EP) is the first step in characterizing the planning area – whether it is a province,
city, municipality, barangay or any other geographical or political territory.
What is an Ecological Profile?
An Ecological Profile (EP) is the more comprehensive replacement of the usual
socioeconomic profile which gives equal coverage to the physical, biological, socioeconomic,
cultural and built environments.;
This is the preferred form and LGUs are encouraged to shift from the SEP to the EP
What is the difference between Socio-Economic Profile (SEP) and Ecological Profile
(EP)?
The Socio – Economic Profile (SEP) is a basic reference about all possible aspects of the
locality. It is the most important information base for the comprehensive planning of a city or
municipality. As an information system for planning, however, the SEP has certain built – in
limitations, namely:
1. It serves as a simple snapshot of the area at a given point in time that precludes any
appreciation of change, much less the magnitude of that change.
2. The geographical distribution of data attributes is not consistently shown, i.e., some data
are disaggregated down to the barangay level, some are aggregated at the city,
municipal, or provincial level only.
3. The SEP normally gives cursory treatment to the physical and environmental sectors,
which are of particular importance to planning at the local level.
The Ecological Profile, as mentioned above, is a merger of the socioeconomic and
biophysical profiles of the study area and treats these subjects on equal footing.
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