Compliance of selected business establishment on the liquor ban in Davao City Ordinance No. 00413 series of 2013

Abstract

Historically, alcohol drinking is treated as a cultural practice and a kind of leisure that characterized meaningful reasons like victory in war and sports, personal achievements in job, academics, and self-enrichment and mostly as social interaction to build new friendship, business relationship and solidarity in kinship and to the community. However, the negative outcome of alcoholism lead to the formulation of policy that requires and contract liquorserving establishment to adapt the standard principle implement by a governing institutions. The major and minor effect of alcohol drinking is visible in individuals’ well-being both physical and psychological aspect. This individual consequences will affect the social strata and will grow as a societal problem in a lifetime if it lacks concern and intervention. Thus, the research thrust of this study was to determine the extent of compliances of the selected establishment on the Liquor Ban Ordinance in Davao City. There are three hundred respondents that participated in the study. The respondents are workers in the selected establishment serving or selling liquor products. It also aim to explore the significance of difference through business type and age of the respondents. Using descriptive survey method and mean, results of the study revealed a very high level of compliance measured from three distinct indicators namely, limits of operating time for liquor establishments, the legal buying and drinking age and documents for operating liquor establishments and responsibility to violation. While the other findings using ANOVA, the study revealed that there is a significant difference with respect to the business type and age of the respondents. Keywords: compliance, establishment, ordinance