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Most poor get poorer, says SWS

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MOST poor Filipino families lack half of the minimum monthly budget needed to rise above poverty, the latest SWS survey revealed Friday.

The survey, conducted among 1,200 adults nationwide, revealed that national median Self-Rated Poverty Gap, or the amount poor families lack in monthly home expenses relative to their stated threshold has remained at P5,000 since September 2016.

This is half of the P10,000 Self-Rated Poverty Threshold that respondent families stated that a poor household needs for home expenses for them not to consider themselves poor in general.

The same survey showed that the respondent families Self-Rated Food Poverty Gap, or the amount food-poor families lack in monthly food expenses relative to their stated threshold, is P2,000.

This was lower than the P5,000 Self-Rated Food Poverty Threshold, or monthly budget that a food-poor household needs so that it will not consider itself food-poor.

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The polling firm said the SRPT in Metro Manila rose to P20,000 this quarter from P18,000 in December—the highest median SRPT recorded in the nation’s capital so far. Its median SRPG similarly edged up to P10,000 from P8,000, also a record.

While Mindanao has maintained its P10,000 median SRPT since April 2016—the highest recorded on the island, its median SRPG rose to P5,000 from P4,000—the biggest since SWS began tracking this indicator on the island in November 2010.

In Balance Luzon, the median SRPT stayed at P10,000 and median SRPG was steady at P5,000 from December 2016.

The Visayas has kept median SRPT at P10,000 since December 2014, which had a record-high P12,000, while median SRPG has stayed at P5,000 since June 2016.

Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella said the government is working towards “alleviating poverty to bring comfortable lives.”

“Having said this, the government has initiated some pro-poor and inclusive efforts… This way we hope to bring more food on the poor household families’ table,” Abella said.

The latest survey, conducted from March 25 to 28, had sampling error margins of ±3 percent for national percentages.   

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