AT least 11.3 million Filipino families rated themselves as poor while 2.9 million said they experienced hunger in the last three months, down from 12.7 million and 4.2 million, respectively, the August 28 to September 2 Tugon ng Masa (TNM) survey of OctaResearch showed.
The Tugon ng Masa (TNM) survey, which involved 1,200 adult respondents with a margin of error of +/-3 percent, also showed that 48 percent said the state of poverty in the country was the same before the Marcos administration while 34 percent said it was worse than before the current government.
The TNM results showed that 43 percent of Filipino families, estimated at 11.3 million, identified themselves as poor, down from 48 percent (12.7 million) in June.
The survey also showed that 49 percent could not say if they were poor or not, while 8 percent said they were not poor.
Majority of those from Mindanao (60 percent), the Visayas (59 percent) and socio-economic class E (79 percent) said their families are poor while only 35 percent from National Capital Region (NCR), 30 percent from Luzon, 42 percent from Class D, and 5 percent from Class ABC said they are poor.
Majority of those from Luzon (59 percent), Class D (51 percent), and Class ABC (64 percent), and a plurality from NCR (46 percent) said they could not say if they are poor or not.
The OctaResearch found that those who considered themselves poor claimed their families need at least P30,000 a month in order not to be considered poor.
It also found that 42 percent (estimated 11.1 million) Filipino families consider themselves as food-poor while 12 percent said they are not food-poor and 46 percent said they could not say if they are food-poor or not food-poor.
Majority of those from the Visayas (63 percent), Mindanao (59 percent), and socio-economic class E (73 percent) said their families are food-poor while only 34 percent from NCR, 27 percent from Luzon, 41 percent from Class D, and 7 percent from Class ABC said they are food-poor.
Majority of those from Luzon (59 percent) and Class ABC (55 percent), and a plurality from NCR (37 percent) and Class D (48 percent) said they could not say if they were poor or not.
The TNM results also showed that 11 percent (estimated 2.9 million) claimed that they experienced involuntary hunger or had nothing to eat at least once in the last three months, down from 16 percent (estimated 4.2 million in June).
The results also showed that 89 percent said they did not experience involuntary hunger.
The survey showed that more families from the Visayas (20 percent) and Class E (29 percent) claimed that they experienced involuntary hunger followed by those from NCR and Mindanao (11 percent each), Class D (10 percent) and Luzon (7 percent). No one from Class ABC said they experienced hunger.
OctaResearch found that 34 percent of Filipinos believe that the state of poverty in the country is worse under the Marcos administration while 48 percent said it is the same as before.
Seventeen percent said the state of poverty under the current administration is better than before while one percent could not say or do not know.
The TNM results showed that the majority from Mindanao (58 percent) and the Visayas (50 percent) said the poverty is worse than before while the majority from the NCR (60 percent) and Luzon (59) percent said it is the same as before.
A near majority from socio-economic classes E (49 percent), D (48 percent) and ABC (47 percent) said the state poverty under the Marcos administration is the same as before the current government.
