More Filipino families saw themselves as food poor in the first quarter of this year, rising from 8.7 million in December 2022 to 10.6 million in March 2023, according to a Social Weather Stations survey. | BPinlacINQ
The error margins for the survey are ±2.8 percent for national percentages and ±5.7 percent each for Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.SWS said the percentage of self-rated food poor Filipino families leaped everywhere across the archipelago from December 2022 to March 2023, but the increase was “more significant” in Visayas and Mindanao than in Metro Manila and Balance Luzon.
“It rose slightly in Metro Manila from 29 percent to 33 percent, and in Balance Luzon from 28 percent to 31 percent,” SWS pointed out. This, however, was unchanged in Balance Luzon at 36 percent and barely moved from 41 percent to 40 percent in Mindanao.
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