A LESSER number of Filipinos rated their families as poor and food-poor, the June 28 to July 1 survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.
The survey, which involved 1,500 adult respondents nationwide with a ±2.5 percent margin of error, showed that 45 percent or 12.5 million rated their families as poor, down from 51 percent in March.
Thirty-three percent (up from 30 percent) said their families are borderline poor while 22 percent (up from 19 percent) said their families are not poor.
The SWS said the self-rated poor families fell across all geographical areas with the highest from the Visayas at 57 percent (down from 65 percent), followed by Mindanao at 54 percent (down from 62 percent), the National Capital Region (NCR) with 35 percent (down from 40 percent), and the rest of Luzon with 39 percent (down from 43 percent).
Those who said their families are borderline poor were highest in Luzon (38 percent up from 32 percent), followed by Mindanao (unchanged at 33 percent), the Visayas (28 percent up from 26 percent) and NCR (23 percent down from 26 percent).
Those who said they are not poor were highest and even rose in Metro Manila at 42 percent (from 33 percent), followed by Luzon with 23 percent (down from 25percent), the Visayas with 15 percent (up from 9 percent), and Mindanao with 13 percent (up from 6 percent).
The SWS also found that 34 percent or about 9.2 million households claimed their families are Food Poor, down from 39 percent in March.
Thirty-eight percent (up from 35 percent) also rated their families as Borderline Food-Poor while 29 percent (up from 26 percent) said they are Not Food-Poor.
Self-rated Food Poor was highest in the Visayas with 42 percent (down from 45 percent in March), followed by Mindanao with 40 percent (down from 52 percent), Metro Manila with 32 percent (statistically unchanged from 33 percent), and Luzon with 28 percent (down from 31 percent).
Those who claimed their families were Borderline Food Poor was highest in Luzon (42 percent up from 36 percent), followed by Mindanao (43 percent up from 40 percent), Visayas (33 percent down from 37 percent) and NCR (21 percent down from 24 percent).
Those who said their families were not poor were highest in Metro Manila (47 percent up from 43 percent), followed by the rest of Luzon (31 percent down from 33 percent), Visayas (25 percent up from 18 percent), and Mindanao (17 percent up from 9 percent).
The SWS found that Filipinos felt that the self-rated poor threshold, or monthly amount that you need for expenses in order not to be considered poor, remained at P15,000.
The threshold in Metro Manila is at P20,000; P15,000 in Luzon and the Visayas; and P10,000 in Mindanao.
The SWS also found that Filipinos also felt that the Self-rated food threshold, or monthly amount that you need for food, remained at P8,000.
The Food Threshold in Metro Manila is at P8,500; P7,000 in Luzon; P8,000 in the Visayas; and P7,000 in Mindanao.
