About 12.9 million or 51% of Filipino households have rated themselves poor within the fourth quarter of 2022, in accordance with the nationwide Social Weather Survey on Self-Rated Poverty (SRP) launched on Thursday however performed in December 2022.
The determine is barely larger in comparison with October 2022 through which 49% rated themselves poor.
The estimated variety of Self-Rated Poor households are 12.9 million in December 2022 and 12.6 million in October 2022.
At least 31% of households rated themselves as Borderline, by putting themselves on a horizontal line dividing Poor and Not Poor. This determine rose barely from 29% in October 2022.
In the most recent survey, 19% of households rated themselves as Not Poor, a slight lower from October survey’s 21%.
The SWS has measured Self-Rated Poverty (SRP) quarterly by means of face-to-face surveys since 1992, besides within the first three quarters of 2020 attributable to lack of public transportation in the course of the pandemic. The SRP surveys had been resumed within the 4th quarter of 2020.
The sampling error margins are ±2.5% for nationwide percentages, ±5.7% every for Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao.
The hike within the nationwide determine was attributable to a rise of self-rate poor households in Balance Luzon, from 36% to 49%.
The figures had been decrease in Metro Manila from 44% to 32%, within the Visayas from 68% to 58%, and in Mindanao from 64% to 59%.
There was a rise in those who rated themselves Borderline poor rose within the Visayas from 21% to 34%, in Metro Manila from 23% to 29%, and in Mindanao from 28% to 30%. In Balance Luzon, nonetheless, the determine decreased from 35% to 30%.
The households that rated themselves Not Poor enhance in Metro Manila from 33% to 39% and in Mindanao from 8% to 11%. But figures decreased in Balance Luzon from 29% to twenty% and within the Visayas from 11% to 9%.
Self-rated Food Poverty
The estimated numbers of Self-Rated Food Poor households are 8.7 million in each December 2022 and October 2022, in accordance with the identical survey.
Self-Rated Food Poverty, primarily based on the kind of meals eaten by their households, the December 2022 survey discovered 34% of households score themselves as Food-Poor, 38% score themselves as Food Borderline, and 28% score themselves Not Food-Poor.
Comparing the December 2022 outcomes to the October 2022 survey, there are not any adjustments within the percentages for food-poor, meals borderline, and never meals poor.
Newly poor
Of the estimated 12.9 million Self-Rated Poor households in October 2022, 2.0 million had been Newly Poor, 1.5 million had been Usually Poor, and 9.4 million had been Always Poor.
The December 2022 survey requested the Self-Rated Poor if they’d ever skilled being non-poor (both not poor or borderline) previously. The whole proportion of poor households consists of 8.0% who had been non-poor 1-4 years in the past (“Newly Poor”), 5.8% who had been non-poor 5 or extra years in the past (“Usually Poor”), and 37.0% who by no means skilled being non-poor (“Always Poor”). — BAP, GMA Integrated News
