{"id":147136,"date":"2018-01-18T02:08:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T07:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=147136"},"modified":"2018-01-18T02:08:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T07:08:29","slug":"sws-self-rated-poverty-declines-in-last-three-months-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/18\/sws-self-rated-poverty-declines-in-last-three-months-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"SWS: Self-rated poverty declines in last three months of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Informal settlers in Metro Manila (Saiko3p \/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Filipino families considering themselves as poor slightly declined in the last three months of 2017, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed.<\/p>\n

The Fourth Quarter of 2017 SWS survey revealed that 44% or 10.0 million families rated themselves as poor, three points below the 47% or 10.9 million families in September 2017.<\/p>\n

The results give an average Self-Rated Poverty (SRP) of 46% for last year, two points short of the record-low average 44% of 2016.<\/p>\n

SWS attributed the three-point decline in the nationwide self-rated poverty in the fourth quarter of 2017 to the sharp decrease in Balance Luzon, slight decline in Metro Manila and Visayas, balance by an increase in Mindanao.<\/p>\n

SRP in Balance Luzon decline by 10 points from 50% in September 2017 to 40% in the last three months of last year, giving the region an average SRP of 43% for 2017 which is three points higher than 40% in 2016.<\/p>\n

For 2017, the SRP in Metro Manila decreased by 3 points from 31% in September to 28% in December, posting a record-low average of 31% for 2017.<\/p>\n

SRP also decreased by 3 points in the Visayas, from 56% in September to 53% in December, giving an average SRP of 58% for 2017.<\/p>\n

However, SRP increased by 7 points in Mindanao, from 45% in September to 52% in December. This gives Mindanao an average SRP of 52% for 2017, 1 point above the 51% in 2016.<\/p>\n

The survey also revealed that families rating the food they eat as poor, termed by the SWS as \u2018food poor,\u2019 was fixed at 32 percent or an estimated 7.3 million.<\/p>\n

This result gave posed an average self-rated food poverty of 33 percent for last year, two points above the record-low 31 percent in 2016<\/p>\n

SWS conducted the survey from December 8-16, 2017 using face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults nationwide with sampling error margins of \u00b12.5% for national percentages, and \u00b16% each for Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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