FORECASTING THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE HOUSEHOLD FINAL CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE (HFCE) IN THE PHILIPPINES
Andre Perry P Dasmariñas | Gweneth H De Castro | Bea Jane M Lazona | Laurence P Usona
Discipline: Statistics
Abstract:
The Household Final Consumption Expenditure (HFCE) is a significant component of the Philippine
economy. The term "HFCE" refers to families' spending on necessities such as food and drink, clothing, shelter,
and health care. The gathered data from this study covers the country’s quarterly HFCE from 2001-2021. The
study used various forecasting methods, including Triple Exponential Smoothing, Seasonal Autoregressive
Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA), and TBATS in modeling time series data to depict the effects of
COVID-19 on the country’s HFCE Growth Rate. The best model to predict the quarterly HFCE growth rate
from 2022 to 2026 was identified using error metrics, particularly RMSE, MSE, and MAE. The SARIMA
model had the lowest combined error of the train and test set, marking it as the best model for predicting the
HFCE growth rate. Moreover, the HFCE growth rate was also predicted using various machine learning
regression algorithms (SVR, XGBoost, and kNN), with a variety of economic indicators as the independent
variables, including the inflation rate, unemployment rate, import of goods growth rate, import of services
growth rate, export of goods growth rate, and export of services growth rates. The results of error metrics
showed that SVR was the best regression algorithm for predicting the Philippines’ quarterly HFCE Growth
Rate. The findings of this study indicate that as COVID-19 spread over the country, the HFCE growth rate
dramatically decreased. Therefore, models used to predict the HFCE growth rate over the next five years are
significantly impacted using historical data, including the years when COVID-19 occurred.
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