Background of the study
There are various definitions of research presented by various scholars and authors. In general, research is a way of thinking and finding answers to the questions that come into your mind. In our day-to-day life, we formulate several questions in our mind. We want to get answers for these questions. Some of these questions can be answered easily without any need of scientific scrutiny. While there are also some questions that need to be answered in a logical manner.
The process that needs to be followed in finding answers to such question should have to be empirical and subjective. The techniques and procedures that need to be used should also be valid and logical. In this way, we are able to get answers that are authentic and verifiable. The research process also requires scientific scrutiny and the procedures involved in this scrutiny should have to be valid and reliable, according to the source, (https://www.google.com/amp/readingcraze.com/index.php/definitions-research-famous-writers/amp/) especially when one is conducting a quantitative research, and intendedly as what will going to happen in this particular investigation.
Thus, in having this knowledge, the researchers have chosen a problem, be analyzed and thoroughly inspected, and to be conducted within the reach of the quantitative investigation. The sidewalk vendors. Now, looking for a way to connect these two distinct subjects, namely being the quantitative research and the sidewalk vendors. The researchers have decided to conduct an investigation on the flow of income and loses in a span of a 7 day survey conduction.
Looking for a better way to understand their situations, the researchers look for further information that may alleviate doubts and fallacies that have lingered within us from our social indifferences. According to
(https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2012/12/occupy-the-sidewalk/), Sidewalk vendors have always been a site to behold in the panorama of Philippine society. Although we cannot claim that this phenomenon is endemic or indigenous to Filipino culture and society, the persona of the sidewalk vendor is omnipresent within and in the very fabric of Filipino society. We see these sidewalk vendors along the street as we leave our homes. We pass by them as we wait for our ride to work. They are in the vicinity of schools, in the compound of churches, inside cemetery grounds, parks and amusement centers. They may be located on top of overpasses, or in underpasses. In fact, the term 'sidewalk' has become blurred because these vendors have occupied not only sidewalks but literally the streets.
As these entrepreneurs in the urban informal economy prosper they are able to increase their purchasing power and they go out of the scope of their sector to participate in the formal economy either as producers or distributors of goods or consumers. In both cases, their success in the urban informal economy would have made them as empowered actors.
In following this line of reasoning according to the source, it may well emphasize their well capability to further enhance the Philippine economy in a positive position. This in turn, bring the researchers to conduct the study to further strengthen their views on how these sidewalk vendors could possibly help the well economy of the local residence.
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Statement of the problem and Hypothesis
The main purpose of this study is to determine the possible income and loses of the subjects, which is the sidewalk vendors, in return to better identify their capability in influencing the local area in which these subjects are currently situated.
The objectives of this research study are as follows.
• determining the item quantity of a certain sidewalk vendors
