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(Eagle News)–Over 40% of Filipino families feel they are poor, results of a December Social Weather Stations survey showed. According to the SWS, the 47% translates to 13.0 million families, slightly lower than the 13.2 million families who rated themselves as poor in September 2023 (48%). The SWS said to arrive at the estimated numbers of self-rated poor households, the percentage of respondent households rating themselves as poor was applied to the Philippine Statistics Authority […]
(Eagle News)–Hunger incidence among Filipino families decreased in March, a recent Social Weather Stations survey found. The SWS survey conducted from March 28 to 31 found that the 9.5% or the estimated 2.3 million families who experienced involuntary hunger at least once in the past three months was one percent lower than the 10.5 percent in December 2018. According to the SWS, this also “marked the second consecutive quarter where there has been a decrease in […]
