MANILA—The number of Filipinos who consider themselves to be poor rose in the second quarter of 2019 after dipping for the past 3 quarters, a Social Weather Stations survey showed Saturday.
An SWS survey of 1,200 people revealed that the number of families who see themselves as "mahirap" or poor rose up from 38 percent in March 2019 to 45 percent.
The SWS noted the rise in figures in increases in all regions: 19 percentage points in Mindanao , 5 points in Balance Luzon , 3 points in Metro Manila , and remained at 55 percent in Visayas The same survey also found that 35 percent are, as the SWS termed it, "food poor," or consider their food as poor, which is 8 percentage points higher than the ratio posted in March 2019.
This is termed the Self-Rated Poverty Threshold, or the SRP Threshold, or "the minimum monthly budget poor families need for home expenses in order not to be poor," the SWS said.
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